Lead actor Matt Damon describes how Ridley Scott’s film – and Andy Weir’s book – can perk students’ curiosity, in this conversation with Space.com’s @DavidSkyBrody at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Also discussed: inhabiting a snarky character, astronauts (and actors) on too much time away from home, and the search for water worlds in space.
The movie is based on author Andy Weir’s book. [Read the first chapter of the ‘The Martian’ on Space.com]
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