The film's science adviser shares what it was like working with the star-studded cast, and what we can learn from the disaster flick about science denialism.
, a planetary defense project that aims to find and catalogue comets and asteroids that could pose a threat to our planet.Netflix's new disaster-comedy flick about a pair of astronomers who struggle to warn mankind about a comet on a crash course with Earth, that's because it is. Director Adam McKay — known for screwball comedies like— tapped Mainzer as the movie's science adviser a few years back.
Astronomer Randall Mindy and doctoral student Kate Dibiasky on the hunt for comets in the Netflix comedy 'Don't Look Up.' Deep Impact.A: It’s funny, I’m probably one of the only asteroid scientists who can say I’ve seen neither; I haven’t watched either one. But it is true that science fiction has a really powerful role to play in helping us to envision the future and think about possible future outcomes.
But it was a great experience. These are really legendary actors for a reason; they’re really smart and capable at portraying the humanity in the characters they play. I had a lot of really great conversations over the couple of years with all of them. In particular, I spent a lot of time talking with Leo [DiCaprio] and Rob Morgan about their characters. As the scientists, they had a really important role to represent science, and to represent how scientists think.
A: Leo, in particular, did a fabulous job with some very complex technical material. They had to learn quite a bit about how asteroid discovery works and how to characterize orbits and all of that.
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