7/21/2023 0 Comments Spacie oddityAnd this movie is about how they need to check back in to deal with our grief and come back together. We’re all checking out in different ways. So many young people are dealing with existential feelings about why am I here? All the messages that we’re getting is ‘the end is near’ or ‘the end is here.’ What this young man at the center of this story is struggling with is something a lot of people are feeling. Everyone knows someone who died of COVID. ![]() We’re all mourning for the way things were before COVID. Did it take on a different resonance after the pandemic? You were originally supposed to shoot this before COVID. Life is hard and there’s loss and pain and people die and it’s scary to live on Earth, especially now, but it’s worth the fight. There’s also a climate message which is just there’s no plan B. Was that something you wanted to explore?ĭefinitely. Alex, the central character in the film, is kind of done with this world and wants to make a new life on Mars. ![]() And this story is about grief and loss and that’s something that we all struggle with and are especially struggling with now. It’s an Alexander Payne sort of thing, where it’s amusing, but meaningful. It’s a beautiful story and it has all the elements that I feel like I need in order to do my best work, which is this funny/sad genre that I’m totally into. Sedgwick spoke with Variety about the film’s political message, space travel and working with her husband, Kevin Bacon, who plays Alex’s father in “Space Oddity.”
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