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‘Don’t Look Up’ Actor Leonardo DiCaprio ‘Had Been Looking’ to Make a Film About the Climate Crisis, but Called It ‘Next to Impossible’

‘Don’t Look Up’ Actor Leonardo DiCaprio ‘Had Been Looking’ to Make a Film About the Climate Crisis, but Called It ‘Next to Impossible’

'Don't Look Up' Leonardo DiCaprio and Adam McKay sitting in chairs with a mic in front of a theater screen

Netflix’s Don’t Look UpIt has one of most impressive casts of all time. It boasts the likes Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence leading a story that’s all too fitting for the current global climatePolitically and environmentally. Recently, DiCaprio explained that he was looking to star in a movie on the climate crisis. However, he acknowledged how difficult it is to translate the subject matter into a narrative format.

What is ‘Don’t Look Up’ about?

'Don't Look Up' Leonardo DiCaprio and Adam McKay sitting in chairs with a mic in front of a theater screen

L-R: Adam McKay, Leonardo DiCaprio | Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Netflix

Low-level astronomer Dr. Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) and student Kate Dibiasky (Lawrence) are trying to convince the world that there’s a huge approaching comet on a destruction path heading toward earth. But political intervention makes it more difficult to achieve their goal. They decide to go on a media tour to tell the world about the danger that’s to come.

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