“You get to work with the greatest living actor in the world. She didn’t even bring it up.”ĭiCaprio starred alongside Streep in the 1996 drama Marvin’s Room, but according to a recent interview the Titanic actor admitted that he and the cast were nervous to share a film set the with queen of film – fair enough. He said something to me like: ‘Do you really need to show that?’ And I was like: ‘It’s President Orlean it’s not Meryl Streep.’ But she didn’t even blink. The filmmaker added, “He didn’t like seeing her with the lower back tattoo, walking for a second naked. “Leo just views Meryl as film royalty … although maybe royalty is not a compliment … but as such a special figure in the history of film.” But you know who had a problem with it? Leo ,” McKay told the publication. Speaking to The Guardian, McKay said Streep “is fearless.” “And yes, that is a body double. The 72-year-old actress plays President Janie Orlean who is reportedly seen nude from the back in one small snippet of the film. In the lead up to the highly-anticipated release of Don’t Look Upon Netflix later this month, director Adam McKay recalled the moment Leonardo DiCaprio opposed to having co-star Meryl Streep participate in a nude scene. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Netflix) One in which everyone is an idiot.NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 05: (L-R) Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Lawrence attend the “Don’t Look Up” World Premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Decemin New York City. It’s like if you turned Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth into a two-hour, fictionalized dark comedy. While a point that seems lost on everyone involved in making this film is that no matter how valid or urgent your message is? No one is going to listen to you if, you know, you make them hate you. Unfortunately, in my opinion, the movie that apparently resulted from that premise veers too often into “Why can’t you idiots see what big idiots you all are?” narrative territory. That’s the movie.’ Sometimes it’s as simple as that.” “It’s like a comet is going to hit Earth and no one cares. In press materials that accompany Don’t Look Up, McKay recounts how an analogy kept popping up in conversation with one of his longtime friends, journalist David Sirota. But also as a consequence of our terrible choices that will only hasten the worst-case outcomes. Earth is hurtling toward real-life catastrophe thanks to not only the planet’s collective inaction vis a vis climate change. One last big Netflix original for the year So Leo and J-Law’s characters go on a splashy media tour that takes them from the idiocy of morning TV to the idiocy of President Janie Orlean’s White House (wherein the nation’s chief executive is played by Meryl Streep). The even bigger problem is that the TV-addled, social media-obsessed generation in the movie that’s about to get annihilated does not care. The problem? It’s on a collision course with Earth. Randall Mindy (played by a staggeringly unlikeable Leonardo DiCaprio here) make, as Netflix teases, “an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system.” Kate Dibiasky, played by Jennifer Lawrence, is a perpetually-scowling astronomy graduate student. Here’s really all you need to know going into Don’t Look Up. The Daily Beast: ” … It’s not a film with anything particularly interesting to say …” Polygon: “ Don’t Look Up is a hellishly unfunny ride through The Discourse” As we got closer to the streaming release date the day before Christmas, however, I started to feel a little vindicated:įrom The Wall Street Journal: “ Don’t Look Up review: A Cosmic Disaster” assembled for the movie, a certain amount of fawning press attention was to be expected. Given the caliber of the cast that McKay & Co. A humanity-ending comet is hurtling towards Earth, but it's super chill, don't worry.ĭON'T LOOK UP lands on Netflix this Friday (Christmas Eve!) ☄️ /yj4l9xr6IW
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