Leonardo DiCaprio addresses the climate crisis in ‘Don’t Look Up’

the actor Leonardo DiCaprio I signed a contract to act in a movie by Netflix About a comet that threatens to end life on Earth, because it seemed to him an urgent analogy to the prevailing climate crisis.

the darkness sátira “Don”t Look Up” She also has DiCaprio with “The Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence.

In it, both astronomers whose warnings of impending disaster fall on deaf ears in a partisan and starkly divided America, led by an incompetent president to play with. Meryl Streep.

Speaking at the UN Climate Change Summit COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, DiCaprio said Adam McKay’s text solved a “nearly impossible” problem to tell a thrilling story about a crisis “evolving over a century”.

“How do we as a species, as a society, as a culture, politically, face an impending Armageddon?” DiCaprio asked the audience at a Los Angeles preview Thursday.

MacKay, he said, “has decoded, so to speak, how to put a two-hour format into all the frenzy with which we as humankind are responding to this crisis.”

The film, which also features performances by Ariana Grande, Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance and Jonah Hill, arrives in theaters December 10 before airing on Netflix starting on Christmas Eve.

Director McKay, whose extensive career spans the comedies “Anchorman” and “Step Brothers” and the satirical plays “The Big Short” and “Vice”, has become one of the most sought-after directors in Hollywood.

Criticism of “Don’t Look Up” is under the ban, but the initial reaction Thursday was excessive, with Clayton Davis of Variety bible predicting it would have a “seismic effect” on the Oscar race.

DiCaprio said he hopes the film will “start to spark a different conversation,” but admitted he’s not too optimistic about humanity’s ability to solve the climate crisis.

“Especially after coming back from Glasgow and seeing the concessions that could be changed by the next murky administration coming in and getting us out” of the climate deal, he warned.

After two weeks of painful negotiations, nearly 200 countries have reached a global agreement to combat climate change, but they haven’t achieved what science says is needed to contain the dangerous rise in temperatures.

The planet “has a very limited time,” DiCaprio said. “If we do nothing,” he said, “we know the outcome. We know the outcome.”