- Out of us two -
- Yes.
- Who do you think would do better living on Mars?
- I think you would do better living on Mars.
- That's right,
I think I would too.
- And you?
- I think me.
- I think you'd do better at living on Mars
because you have a much bigger sense of adventure than I do.
I, particularly, I do love like my home and my things and my -
- But, on the opposite foot,
I feel like if you're in a settlement on Mars,
you're pretty contained.
- That's true. - So you might be able to -
- I'll say this,
I think I would do better in the journey,
but I wouldn't do so well on Mars as a commitment.
I think you would do horrible on the journey,
but do just fine.
- Yeah. I think I'd do great at both,
I don't know why you think so negatively about me, honestly. [Laughs]
- What drew you to the script?
Why did you decide to say, "You know what -"
- Well, it's funny that you ask me that.
What drew me to the script?
- Yeah. - Well.
- And you can't answer
by stealing all my answers from the previous day.
- Big assumption to think I remember anything you say. [Laughs]
I think it's fun and it's light-hearted.
And I know I've probably said it about a thousand times
in these interviews,
but I really think I was in a professional space
where I said, "I just wanna do something really enjoyable
"and really fun."
And I think the audience is gonna feel the same way.
And then, like, honest to God, truckloads of cash.
[Laughs]
Which always helps.
- Which always helps.
- And gold bars.
- Cool. - What about you?
- Well, I was drawn to this film
because I've never gotten this opportunity before.
- Acting?
- And I like to try new things in terms of space adventure.
- OK.
- I really liked the people involved.
- Yeah.
- I thought the filmmakers were great.
I thought Cole Sprouse, just, just fine.
- OK.
- And that's why I wanted to work on this movie.
- OK. Our characters in the movie 'Moonshot,'
they have very different personalities.
- Yes.
- And I'm wondering if you think opposites attract?
- I think so.
I do think opposites attract.
- Why?
- I don't think that, like, exclusively opposites attract.
- Do you think humans are magnets?
- I think there's some magnetism
to every interaction we have with another human.
And I find that I get along very well with people
who are very unlike myself and my personality,
and I also find that I get along with people
who are like me, as well.
- Not as great.
- But I do think, I think opposites attract,
but I don't think exclusively opposites attract.
I think same, same attract as well.
- Same, same. Yeah.
- What about you, Cole?
- Nope.
- No, you don't think opposites attract?
- Nah, I just know.
- You like to just - All of your interactions with humans,
you like them to be the same?
- No, I do think opposites can attract.
- Yeah, but not exclusively.
- I don't feel like full opposites attract no, I don't.
I don't feel like if you share anything in common
you're gonna be like, "Yeah, that's my life partner."
I feel like you have to have some fundamental,
like, love -
- Baseline.
- Of, like, some hobbies or, like, or interests
or I think -
- Or just the ability to want to try and like those things.
- Yeah, honestly, yeah.
Or like, aspirations or whatever it is.
I mean, I feel like you have to have some moral similarity
or virtuous similarity.
- So, kind of.
- Sure. A long-winded way of saying yes.
[Laughs]
- [Lana] How does our relationship as Lana and Cole
compare to Sophie and Walt?
- I feel like, in real life,
you and I are much more on the same page -
- Yes.
- Than Walt and Sophie are.
I feel like Walt and Sophie,
they are much more opposites.
I feel like you and I are much more similar, personality-wise,
in real life than they are.
- I think you and I,
when we communicate just as Cole and Lana,
we both have the same brain that kind of jumps around,
but somehow we're able to follow.
- Yeah, lizard brain.
- Lizard brain.
- Or bird brain.
- But I do - But I will say there's aspects of Sophie,
I wonder, I suppose I just adopted it from playing her
and being with you over the summer.
But, I do think that there's an aspect
of her where she keeps you -
- Contained?
- Contained.
- Oh, for sure.
- Where I think I, sometimes, as Lana,
I'm able to do that.
- Definitely, I definitely take huge social cues from you.
[Laughs] - Oh my god.
- [Cole] Sophie does this funny thing
where she, sort of, dances to relieve tension.
What do you do to relieve tension?
Remember children are gonna probably watch this.
- I wasn't even gonna go there.
I was gonna say-
- Me neither. [Laughs]
- I was gonna say, I will go on, like, talking fasts.
- Yeah, where you don't talk.
- Where I don't speak for days.
Well not days, like I've gone for maybe three days.
And I go on talking fasts because my job is to talk
and to emote on-screen and also off-screen,
and I get tired of hearing myself.
- And I find that if I, kind of, take that aspect - - I get tired, too.
- Stop! I find that if I take that aspect
and I just shut it down
and I don't speak, then I'm sitting with myself.
It's, like, very challenging at first, but then -
- Meditating.
- The ride is rough and then it eases out.
And then, I do a gratitude journal in the morning
because I've heard that a really good way
to combat anxiety is with gratitude. And little things
like, "I'm just grateful that I woke up today."
- That seems like a big one though. [Laughs]
Like, the alternative seems pretty dark.
- Exactly, but that's reminds me, like, "Oh yes, I did it."
- Yeah, I woke up.
- I woke up.
- Congrats.
- Yeah, what about you?
What do you do to relieve tension and stress?
- I'm not doing that, OK?
What do I do to relieve stress?
Kind of similar,
I don't do the talking fast thing,
but I will really force myself to stay inside.
'Cause when I'm left to my own devices,
I'm a very social person
and I will - I'm a massive conversationalist.
So if I don't go, "Hey, why don't you just shut up
"for a little bit?"
I will continue to stress myself out.
To de-stress, I play video games
'cause it kind of is just a mind-wipe.
It's just like, "Alright,
"I'm fixated on whatever that is."
We do get to wear some pretty cool,
space-themed costumes in this movie.
Which one was your favorite?
- Honestly, I think it's just the space suit.
Not the gravity one,
but just the one that we always wear in the spaceship.
- The jumpsuit or?
- The jumpsuit.
Mainly 'cause, well we tried on a ton of different jumpsuits
and I think that one was my favorite.
So, 1. I was just happy they picked that one.
And then 2. I had just gotten off
a show where I was, like, constantly
in, like, different wardrobe, like, all day long, every day.
And so it was - Honestly,
it was pretty nice to have just, like, one uniform.
- One suit, yeah.
- Like, that you, like, get used to in
and you don't have to do a bunch of changes
and, like, it's the same thing.
And so, I would just say, yeah,
the classic spaceship uniform was my favorite.
What about you?
- I would have to say the full spacesuit.
- Really?
- Yeah, I'll admit it was kind of a bucket list item
for me as an actor to say, "Oh man, I have been
"on screen in a spacesuit," and mine came with a diaper
so it was, like, perfect.
- Perfect.
- Yeah.
- You know what my favorite one of yours is?
- Yeah.
- When Walt shows up at the airport.
- Oh yeah, with the hat.
- He's wearing, like, this bucket hat
with, like, the strings.
- Full tourist garb.
- And then he's wearing, like, this shirt
that he stole from duty free and his pants,
the waistline are, like, up here.
- Squeezed, yeah.
- And you look just so, like, derpy.
Actually, when I saw that outfit,
I was like, "Oh there he is," you know?
- Yeah, I sneak up.
- Yeah and you're like, "Hey."
- "Hey."
- OK, so Walt has a journal, an adventure journal.
If you were to have an adventure journal,
what would be in it slash bucket list?
- I am a big, big foodie.
You are, too.
I would love to try all different kinds of foods,
like local foods from everywhere I travel.
That's like a big one for me.
- Like Anthony Bourdain.
- Yeah I mean, he was like my idol growing up, truly.
Stomach of steel.
- Stomach of steel.
And I do, too.
I mean, I will legitimately eat anything,
so I love that kind of thing.
I love just meeting people and traveling.
I have a travel bucket list for sure.
And it's everywhere.
I'd love to visit every country once.
- That would be amazing.
- What about you?
- On my bucket list,
I'd like to have a family at some point.
- Ah, you're making me sound way more selfish now.
- Well, this is like, "Woo whatever,"
but I'd like to be well-rested and happy.
- Yeah.
- And I'm well-rested and happy now,
but I think that when I think of my future, it's weird.
Like, I think in society right now,
everything is just so fast-paced and everything,
at least as an entertainer,
I feel, like, constantly, like, "I have to do this opportunity
"'cause what if it leaves," or all these different things.
And that's really no way to live.
And I guess when I look at my future
and I think of me at, like, 50,
like, I'd love to just be at peace,
like, be happy, and have a family, probably more dogs.
I would like to travel,
but I think mostly, like, more of, like,
quelling the internal turmoil
and just being at peace I think is
something that's always been on my list.
- No, I love the turmoil. - So, our movie is very fun
and has some really fun little tropes
and is really just a great experience.
I think there are some takeaway,
overall messaging in our film.
And I would be curious to know,
what do you think the messaging is?
- I would say, if you were to reduce the message,
it would be live in the present.
If you were to expand on that idea,
we have concepts of future tense and present tense.
Why are we colonizing Mars if we could be focusing
on conserving Earth?
Why are we looking towards the future or the destination
when we could be having fun in the journey?
I think the overall message is really,
"Hey, focus on where you're at right now."
I think that's probably the biggest thing
the movie's trying to say.
- Yeah.
- And what about you?
- I would agree with all of that. I would say, like -
- I just said it though, so.
- I would say like -
- You gotta come up with a different one
because I just said.
- Ah, I would say forge your own path
and don't follow others.
I think something that was really important for me,
when I was actually talking initial, like, notes
on the script, is I was like, "I don't want this
"to be Sophie following."
- Yeah.
- "Just blindly following someone to their own destination.
"I want her to figure out her own path in that."
So, I guess it would be, like, forge your own way.
And then, also, I think there's a really big theme
of, which is something very valuable to Sophie,
of like we don't - Like, we should fix what's broken.
- Yeah.
- We shouldn't just run away from it.
And in our movie, it's Earth.
And there's this thought like, "Let's just go colonize Mars
"because Earth is dying.
"And so, we're just gonna go
"and we're gonna find what's next."
And you kind of find out that it's, like, no,
Sophie wants to use the resources around her
that she still has to heal the Earth
'cause she doesn't wanna give up on it, you know?
And I think that's - A big message is,
like, let's fix what's broken
before we just decide to desert.
- Eat dessert?
- Desert the Earth.
Although I would love some dessert, some tiramisu?
- Right now?
That'd be dope.
- Right?