DiCaprio calls 'Don't Look Up' a 'unique gift' to climate change fight
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Leonardo DiCaprio calls his new movie "Don't Look Up" a gift.
Not because he got to work with a cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Timothee Chalamet and Jonah Hill, to name just a few, but because the film captures the perils of climate change, while also making people laugh.
"I think we all looked at this as an incredibly unique gift," said DiCaprio, one of Hollywood's most vocal campaigners on the environment.
"We'd been wanting to get the message out there about the climate crisis, and Adam (McKay) really cracked the code with creating this narrative," he said.
Released in movie theaters on Friday and on Netflix on Dec. 24, "Don't Look Up Now" takes a satirical look at how the media and politicians treat climate issues. The plot sees two lowly astronomers (played by DiCaprio and Lawrence) trying to warn a world that doesn't seem to care about a huge comet on course to destroy the Earth in six months time.
DiCaprio said he'd been looking to do a film about the climate crisis for a while but finding the right approach had proved difficult, until now.