Academy Award-winning actors Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio say they hope that by means of the laughs within the new movie “Do not Look Up” they will be capable of change some minds concerning the perils of local weather change. Streep, DiCaprio and director Adam McKay speak concerning the Netflix manufacturing, their careers and extra in an interview with correspondent Tracy Smith for “CBS Sunday Morning,” to be broadcast December 5 on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.
The movie has an all-star solid and revolves round a scientist (DiCaprio) making an attempt to warn the world {that a} comet is heading towards Earth and can destroy the planet. Streep performs the president who will not take him critically. The comet is a metaphor for local weather change with the world cut up between believers and skeptics.
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However can a film make a distinction?
“Hopefully,” DiCaprio advised Smith. “However at this level, I am a Debbie Downer with the system. So, you are asking the fallacious man. To me, it is about rather less, you understand, dialog, and much more motion.”
The movie was shot on the top of the pandemic’s impression on all the world, which made it extra significant to DiCaprio: “And that is why it related with this screenplay that was concerning the local weather disaster that we’re all going to undergo – we’re all going to really feel the ramifications of this,” he mentioned. “And what we’re seeing proper now, with the wildfires and the large hurricanes and all these catastrophes, would not get higher than this, okay? … It would not get higher than this. It slowly turns into worse.”
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Director McKay, recognized for the comedies “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” and the Oscar-winning “The Huge Brief,” felt comedy was the easiest way to strategy the subject of local weather change.
“We will overcome this,” McKay advised Smith. “However what’s scaring me now’s, it is actually attending to be right down to the final second. And so, hopefully this film is one thing the place we get quite a lot of laughs, however we additionally get a kick within the pants.”
Streep, who describes herself as a giant fan of McKay, agreed that the director’s comedic take may assist unfold the movie’s message: “No one makes me giggle tougher in his motion pictures. And no one makes me suppose extra.”
“Do not Look Up” opens in choose theaters December 10, and streams on Netflix starting December 24.
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