Re: The Martian
Matt Damon in Ridley Scott's The Martian : People.com
From the article:
Jessica Chastain, another Interstellar alum clearly still bitten by the space bug, is set to join the cast as mission commander. Kristin Wiig is also in the mix, playing a NASA spokeswoman, and Jeff Daniels will take on the role of mission control.
"Through Interstellar and watching the fun that Annie [Hathaway] and Matt [Damon] had playing astronauts, I thought I really want to do that," Chastain tells PEOPLE. "It was about two weeks later, Ridley called me and asked me if I would play an astronaut in his next film, The Martian – I jumped at the chance of course."
To research her role, Chastain spent time at the famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she met and learned from the people behind the Curiosity Rover. She even got to spend some time on the red planet, via virtual reality:
"I got to see all the maps of Mars, and participate in an 3D virtual reality perspective," she says. "It was incredible, as soon as I put the glasses on, I felt like I was really there on Mars. Whether I looked left or right, it felt like I was there with actual images all around me. It was a fantastic way to imagine what it would be like to be on that planet."
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Matt Damon in The Martian First look at Ridley Scott's next movie | EW.com
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