Actor Ryan Gosling landed this Friday in Mexico City to present ‘Project Hail Mary’, the film in which the Canadian, in his role as a NASA astronaut, traveled into space to show humanity that “the future is not something to fear, but something to discover”.
The Hollywood star arrived at the planetarium of the Papalote Museo del Niño, in the Chapultepec Forest, accompanied by the directors of the feature film, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, in an environment where he felt at home, as he remembered his two young daughters, who he said were the source of inspiration to carry out this production of more than 150 million dollars.
“I wanted to create something for my daughters and for their generation, without trying to scare them. This was not to deny that in the future there will be problems or a lot of things to solve, but it was to offer them something different,” Gosling said at a press conference in which he told of his experience in this project based on the science fiction novel of the same name by Andy Weir.
For the big screen adaptation, Gosling played the fictional character of Ryland Grace, a biologist who, despite his lack of experience as an astronaut, becomes the only hope for saving humanity.
During the interstellar journey – in which the goal is that the stars do not die – Grace meets Rocky, a kind of alien stone with whom she learns to communicate in order to collaborate in the salvation of her planets.
The 45-year-old actor was asked to be involved in the story written by Weir in 2020, a very difficult time for the film industry and for everyone, as the world was confined to facing the covid-19 pandemic, the most lethal pandemic of the present century.
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The actor recounted that he spent much of the footage isolated from people, with photos of cast members – including Germany’s Sandra Hüller (Eva Stratt) – as well as a puppet that would initially bring Rocky to life, which brought back memories of the pandemic.
“I spent a lot of time alone in front of the camera with an existential crisis that I don’t recommend to anyone,” he confessed.
To take care of the artist’s mental health, the production team hired puppeteer James Ortiz, who ended up being the voice (in English) of Rocky and Gosling’s closest companion during filming.
“He helped me discover my identity in this character and develop a real friendship with Rocky, it was crazy (…) James started reading the lines of the script for me, just to be a friend,” he stressed.
In the spirit of recognizing Gosling’s efforts to make children look more and more at the universe, the Papalote Museo del Niño presented him with a certified star.
The artist’s meeting with the media and his Mexican followers, who were waiting for him near the museum, was marked by a phrase: “Ryan, save the stars”, a hopeful request in the face of the pessimistic tendency towards the fate of the world.
This is not the first occasion that the Golden Globe winner, for his performance in ‘La La Land’ (2017), delves into the darkness of space, as in ‘First Man’ (2018) he played astronaut Neil Armstrong under the direction of Damian Chazelle, reported Agencia EFE.
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