Jennifer Connelly admitted that she had never seen 1951 film ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ but when she got to read the script of the remake of the 1957 sci-fi classic, she was keen to play the role of an astrobiologist.
“It’s kind of eerie,” she said. “It’s a really truthful view of our time.”
“It’s a really self-reflective film,” said the actress, who turned 38 on Friday last week. “For a big Hollywood studio film to be that straightforward about our own shortcomings and weaknesses is pretty cool.”
The Labyrinth star, who plays opposite Keanu Reeves in the movie, said of a big Hollywood studio film, “It was kind of a big spectacle of a movie that I thought was exciting and would probably be, in the true sense, awesome to behold, given what can be done in cinema these days.”
The Day the Earth Stood Still updates Cold War themes like nuclear warfare to the more contemporary issue of man’s environmental damage to the planet.
Meanwhile, Jennifer Connelly was investigated at an airport when her son Kai, 11, did not tell her he was carrying a toy gun in his bag.
The Beautiful Mind actress has feared of flying as bad things seem to always happen to her when she travels by plane.
She said, “We were coming back from London – it had been Halloween. My son, Kai, was worried about the Halloween candy he had in his bag… We go through security, he puts his bag through and the alarm goes off. the lights go off, officers start coming, everybody’s pointing at us whispering. The woman says… ‘There’s a gun in your bag.’ My son goes, ‘Oh, no! It’s my toy gun for my costume.’ I said (to him), ‘You’re telling me you’ve got a mini Butterfinger, but you don’t tell me you’ve got a gun in your bag?’”