“She’s digging in the crates.
She mashed-up AC/DC and Ludacris!”
to tongue-in-cheekedly growl her response to this entertaining nonsense.
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“I know a lot more about DJ-ing than you people think!”
says the triple Oscar-winner.
As McKay says, “This was a movie like no other movie I’ve ever been involved in.
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I actually get moved about how we all rallied together.”
Jen, you were the first person to read it other than my wife and the producer.
What did you think?
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JENNIFER LAWRENCE:I’m so happy I didn’t know that at the time.
The pressure would have been overwhelming.
I was blown away.
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There’s just every single reason in the world to do it.
MCKAY:Leo and I had three or four meetings and it was so great.
Leo’s really sharp when it comes to the science of this.
STREEP:I was hoping someone would pay attention to this very issue.
When I saw [the film], it just killed me.
Two minutes into them talking, it was just there.
Can you talk about that?
She stole a few of my ad-libs, but it was all good.
I have a question for you, though.
This was before the pandemic you wrote this?
How does that feel?
I never expected there to be people that would deny that COVID existed.
You’ve got to admit it wascrazywhen the President said ingest bleach on national TV.
I just felt that went so far beyond any comedy we had in our script.
So it was bizarre.
HILL:Sometimes the best ideassoundcrazy, Adam, but that one worked.
There’s a hundred companies in the world that are producing seventy percent of the world’s emissions.
I mean, this needs to be on the forefront of everyone’s mind.
HILL:What’s a step [people] can take?
That’s the number one thing people can do.
MCKAY:America has one political party that denies climate change and it should be disqualifying.
MCKAY:That’s insulting!
STREEP:I feel that from you.
HILL:Well, notyou, Meryl.
MCKAY:I just checked out on whatyousaid.
Let me ask you guys [about] the process of shooting this movie during the pandemic.
The way you handled it was so smart because you never had to break quarantine.
PERRY:Not so much.
DICAPRIO:Sounds like my dream life!
They thought it was Kid Cudi.
MCKAY:Meryl, how was it for you?
STREEP:I found it really hard.
I didn’t feel funny in the lockdown.
I just lost it.
I forgot how to act, I forgot what I was about.
It sort of dismantles your humanity, to be isolated like that.
What the f—?
HILL:[Laughs] I had so much fun.
It was like, oh, my God, we can joke around together.
DICAPRIO:That was incredible.
MCKAY:I was like, “Have you studied improv?”
She was like, “Ah, no, no.”
She was so humble about it.
[We spent] two straight days on those phone calls.
HILL:Like the Joker, they thrive in chaos.
MCKAY:Jonah would send me pictures of your ripped-apart couch.
STREEP:This was a rental?
HILL:He had to buy a new couch.
MCKAY:You’ve got to tell the frozen-lake story.
HILL:Basically they both fell in a frozen lake.
STREEP:Oh my god!
DICAPRIO:Yeah and then I went [in].
I didn’t understand what you do at a frozen lake.
DICAPRIO:We all were in the frozen lake together.
MCKAY:The movie obviously deals with the impending end of the world.
LAWRENCE:I’d get on my phone.
MCKAY:Go on TikTok?
Look at farm animals?
Um, God, I don’t know.
HILL:Jen’s all involve murder.
LAWRENCE:Yeah, I would do the Purge.
And then cuddle up to my loving family.
LAWRENCE:Me, too.
STREEP:I agree.
MCKAY:I love you guys so much and you were all so amazing.
It’s really awesome.
