In Independence Day: Resurgence, Jeff Goldblum’s character, David Levinson, is the director of Earth Space Defense (ESD), a global defense program spread on bases throughout the solar system. Goldblum says one of the coolest parts of the film were his scenes “on the moon.”
“They put us in harnesses, and we had some practice rehearsal with a stunt guy, trying to create the illusion of low gravity, and then we put on these moon suits,” he says. “It’s mostly green-screen, and somebody would say, ‘Now you’re seeing… [gibberish].’ And we had to pretend and improvise. But that was fun.”
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Goldblum came of age at the dawn of America’s space race, in the 1950s. “I remember when it was, ‘We’ve got to get a guy up there, because the Russians got a guy up there!’ And Alan Shepard was the first one that went up and came down, and everybody stopped in my school; they brought a TV down and we watched it.
“I had a little part in the movie The Right Stuff (1983), which deals with that whole thing. It was all part of my growing up.”
But he doesn’t think he ever had the “right stuff” himself to become an astronaut and blast off into the unknown.
“Me, I like my home, I like being with people, I don’t want to be isolated so much,” he says. “Traveling, dragging myself around from one place to another, doesn’t thrill me. I don’t think I’m the one to go.”
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