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“Our entire generation is having that question.”

They star in a rom-com where the main character experiences climate doom ... Actors Kyle Allen and Alexandra Shipp tell Brut why including the climate crisis in a film about romance was important to them ... #Tribeca2022
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00:00Our entire generation is having that question.
00:03Well, what do we do?
00:04You know, am I lazy?
00:06Or maybe it's not that bad.
00:07Or, you know, it's that kind of inner chaos
00:12that I think that's the through line.
00:14I think that's, everyone is feeling some version of that.
00:16♪♪
00:22Any daisies?
00:23No, daisies are weeds.
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00:37We love space, don't get me wrong,
00:39but let's also take care of our planet
00:41so that we can go to space.
00:43Because who you think gonna build those spaceships
00:45when we can't breathe?
00:47We have a couple billionaires
00:52going to outer space,
00:55which is something they deem important.
01:00I don't know much about space,
01:03but it does seem like that this is our spaceship.
01:10This is our thing that supports life
01:12that's flying through space.
01:15While I can see the importance of it,
01:20I feel there's far more good to be brought
01:27by putting those, perhaps, I'm not a billionaire,
01:31but perhaps putting those resources
01:33back into our environment
01:35and sustainable systems and things like that
01:39could definitely help.
01:42I remember learning about it when I was in school,
01:44and it was like,
01:46but, you know, we're already past the breaking point.
01:49There's nothing we can really do about it.
01:52And that's really scary, you know?
01:55But I always thought like,
02:00okay, we'll find another planet, you know?
02:04But it's not logical when it comes to the amount of people
02:08that are on this planet.
02:09So then we have the conversation of,
02:10well, who can go, you know, who has access to that?
02:15And if it's the same amount of people
02:16who have access to healthcare in this country,
02:18well, then I think that we have a major problem.
02:27I mean, we had such a beautiful time shooting there.
02:30I mean, imagine going to work there every day in the morning.
02:34There's like a mist over everything
02:35and be there till sunset.
02:37It was, we were kicking ourselves.
02:40Honestly, I felt like I was so immersed in that.
02:42I was so happy to be there.
02:43I really couldn't think about anything else.
02:47And I think that the problem is that it's difficult
02:50to imagine it actually being gone until it's gone.
02:55It's incredibly difficult to be in that environment,
03:00be in that beautiful flower farm
03:02and imagine it not being there.
03:05It's kind of impossible.
03:07I don't think we've actually,
03:09our brains have evolved to fathom something like that,
03:12which is actually why I think the storytelling aspect
03:17of climate crisis is so important.