- [Voiceover] In a world where Jennifer Lawrence
watches the trailer for "Don't Look Up",
we asked her to explain every shot.
[tense music]
- Okay.
- This is rent dove- [laughs]
I can't talk.
It's not that I don't know the character's names, I do.
This is Dr. Randall, he is the professor
at Michigan State University.
And my character, Kate Dibiasky, who is his student.
- [Randall] This is not real.
- That was a real cargo plane, it was freezing.
Can't stress enough how cold it was.
It was really, really chilly.
- [Randall] This is not real.
[loud boom]
This is not real. This is not real.
This isn't happening.
Kate?
- That is the discovery of a comet, that at first,
was very exciting, until we track its trajectory.
It's like a computer. [laughs]
It's a look at the comet from the Subaru Telescope.
- [Randall] Kate?
- In part of my research for the film,
I spoke to a female astronomer.
We kind of decided that Kate
is the type to, you know, be fierce.
And "notice me, hear me roar, ra-ta-ta", kind of lady.
And the nose rings, one just kind of hangs in,
one is a magnet, and many, many times
I accidentally inhaled said-magnet.
And had to spit it out in front of a Leonardo DiCaprio.
- [Female Speaker] Beautiful.
- Yeah.
- [Randall] Kate, tell me this isn't really happening.
[loud boom]
- I hear there's-
- It was on a soundstage in Boston.
It looked so real, it was really cool.
- There is something you don't like the looks of?
- [Randall] We discovered a very-
- He is holding his, you know, professor-y,
science-y notebook, with all the, you know,
notes in it and stuff, calculations.
- We discovered a very large comet.
- Oh, good for you.
- It's headed directly towards Earth.
[loud boom]
- [Clayton] This comet is what we call "a planet-killer".
- Rob Morgan plays Dr. Oglethorpe, somebody at NASA,
who's trying to help us.
And Rob Morgan is the best.
- What we call "a planet-killer".
- [Janie] At this exact moment, I say-
- Yeah. I mean, Meryl Streep was our last choice.
Unfortunately, so many other actresses passed,
and we ended up with Meryl Streep.
- [Janie] At this exact the moment,
I say we sit tight and assess.
- Sit tight and assess?
- Sit tight... - And then assess.
- Jonah's character is- he is the President's son.
But also the Chief of Staff,
which some might think is nepotism.
And he is the worst.
It was really, really hard filming with Jonah,
and just not ruining take after take, laughing.
We one time dedicated an entire day
to him just improving insults at me.
It was amazing.
He and Meryl are the only ones who like really should
do that kind of improv.
But yeah, I mean, he's just- he's a master,
he's a comedic master, so...
But no, I mean, we all did like some stuff,
not as well as Jonah.
- Sit tight and assess?
- Sit tight... - And then assess.
The sit-tight part comes first,
and then you gotta digest it, that's the assessment period.
- See, that was not in the script... Jonah.
- [Randall] This is the worst news
in the history of humanity, and he just blew us off.
- [Kate] What are we gonna do?
We have to release the information.
- So we just leak it.
[loud booms]
- Yeah, I've seen all of his films.
I saw "Step Brothers" when it came out,
four times in the theater.
I went to "Funny or Die" to like have a meeting with him,
and I ended up like probably meeting with like an assistant,
and was just like, "Here's the thing,
these movies are really funny."
I don't know what I was doing at the meeting,
but I've always wanted to work with Adam McKay.
- So we just leak it?
[loud booms]
[loudly inhales]
- [Brie] Our guests today have made
a pretty big discovery in space.
- In this scene, Randall and Kate are trying
to get this information across,
of this deadly meteor that's going to hit the Earth.
So we're just hitting the media rounds,
trying to get the word out.
- How big does this thin, though?
Like can it destroy my ex-wife's house, is that-?
- Susan Matheson, though, is such a great,
great costume designer.
We tried different like hair shapes, different wigs.
And then this one, as hideous as it may be to some people,
it just is- I was just like, "Oh, there she is."
That's a lot harder than it looks,
as my makeup artists would remind me every morning,
'cause my eyes are not the same, apparently.
Thank you, Evelyne. [chuckles]
- [Jack] Can it destroy my ex-wife's house,
is that possible? [news anchors laugh]
- There's a 100% chance that we're all going to die!
- No, I don't remember like walking off,
and being like, "That's the one." [laughs]
But yeah, I mean, I seem pretty hysterical, so...
- We're all going to die!
- [Randall] Kate? Kate?
- Okay.
- [Brie] Well, the handsome astronomer
can come back any time.
- Something's going on with her teeth,
but I don't know what it is.
- The yelling lady, not so much.
- Not so much.
♪ You got me running for a- ♪
- We were being pulled by a trailer.
And being in the car with Timothee and Leo that day,
I remember it just being really hard. [laughs]
They were really, really excited to be out on the town.
It was like peak-COVID, they shut down a freeway.
I think it was just- yeah, they were having a blast.
And Leo had picked the song that's playing.
And this really is him explaining
whatever the song is about.
- [Female Speaker] Well, what song was it?
I don't remember, and I don't remember what it was about.
Sorry.
[upbeat rock music]
- [Randall] We're gonna get the news out there,
one way or another.
- It's real, and it's coming.
- I think we held like little cameras.
We were out on a- in a parking lot somewhere.
Leo and I were both trying to hold it.
But we had these phones that were made
by this company, that- ended up not using them.
I'm really doing a terrible job,
but they were like working futuristic phones,
which was pretty cool.
- It's real, and it's coming.
- [Male Speaker] FBI!
- Jesus Christ, you could have just called me.
- Not Harvard, we couldn't afford that.
But this was on the set of- I mean,
it was on a campus, on a college campus, a college.
We're from Michigan State University
because they have a great astronomy program.
- [Female Speaker] Was this your first film being arrested?
- Yeah, I think so. That's cool.
- Jesus Christ, you could have just called me.
[upbeat rock music]
- This comet contains $30 trillion worth of material.
- [Randall] What do trillions of dollars matter
if we're all gonna die?
- [Jason] Oh, no, what if we're rich?
- That would be terrible!
- Not in the script.
- Let's do this!
[upbeat rock music]
- You guys discovered a comet?
I have a tattoo of a shooting star on my back.
- That's terrific.
- She is playing a pop star named Riley Bina.
And that was like one of the coolest days of my life.
I took a picture with her,
I looked like a radio contest winner.
She couldn't be nicer.
[upbeat rock music]
- This could be a complete disaster.
- [Kate] This is already a disaster.
[upbeat rock music]
- All of the phone conversations just went like,
"And then this person signed on."
"What?"
"And then this person." "What?"
It just kept going.
- Aren't you that girl from live TV,
who said we're all gonna die?
- No.
- What's going on with all of our hair?
He's just like a bad-ass with a mullet.
- No.
- Yo, bro, what up?
[upbeat rock music]
- [Ben] You'll never take me alive!
[gunshots]
- [Randall] There it is!
- It's a rally, basically, to try to garner some,
you know, likes in the polls, kind of thing.
- [Randall] There it is!
A giant-
- He plays DJ Baroque?
No, that's who he leaves Riley Bina for.
DJ Chello?
He plays another DJ who Ariana Grande, Riley Bina,
and him are [clicks tongue] together.
- [Randall] There it is!
A giant comet!
Hurtling its way-
- It wasn't that specific, but it was that kind of idea.
We threw something out a window,
and the window exploded on my eye. [laughs]
But I'm fine.
- Hurtling its way towards Earth!
Can you see it?
- [Kate] I can't, my head is in a bag!
[laughs]
- It would be so hard to like fake, if my head wasn't.
Like, if they had like, what, CG'd, like...
Yeah, my head was actually in a bag, but I could breathe.
It was a loose, loose bag.
My wig fell off, though, 'cause we kept pulling it
on and off, which didn't matter,
'cause my head was in a bag.
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
- [Jason] I did have the FBI put that bag over your head.
They don't do that, the CIA does, but I made them do it.
- You know, I had a feeling.
- It's a good feeling, 'cause that is what I did.
And it was very funny and cool.
[upbeat piano music]
- [Female Speaker] What do you hope people
take away from seeing this movie?
- I think it's just like a really fun,
hilarious way to laugh at ourselves.
And I guess the biggest thing I would want people
to take away from it, is for us to stop
handling information the way that we do now.
Where there's like the truth and science,
and then politics, or, you know, personal feelings involved.
You know, we should all just be on the same page of,
you know, taking care of our planet,
and taking care of mankind.
World peace would be my hope.
[slow saxophone playing]