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Marcus dead this is mark Watney and I'm still alive obviously I have no way to contact NASA what my crewmates but even if I could it would take four years for another manned mission to reach me and I'm gonna have designed the last 31 days so in the face of overwhelming odds I'm left with only one option I'm gonna have to science the out of this so for you personally there ever been a situation where you've had to science the out of something and now you have God hey God if I have to science the out of something we're in deep deep so I did did you specifically do anything to prepare for the role or did Ridley ask you to do anything specific to prepare for the role the first time I met ridley he said he always wanted to make Robinson Caruso you know and we were looking at this as like okay it's writes the Robinson Crusoe story but what makes it different is actually the fact that this guy's got cameras all over the place and he's talking to them and he's leaving a log for other scientists so that they can learn from his experience and that in and of itself makes it different because his behavior in a way is observed you know or he has the feeling that it's observed so so it's not that kind of existential loneliness that you get in something like castaway or Robinson Crusoe it is but it's got this extra layer of you know of self-awareness to it okay let's do the math I gotta figure out how to grow four years worth of food here on a planet where nothing grows but if I can't figure out a way to make contact with NASA none of this matters anyway I just thought this story was incredible and since so so fun and entertaining but like but really engaging so I you know that that was kind of what what drew me to it so recently you've been involved in quite a few science and space-based films how has that impacted your perception of what astronauts do and what they'll have to do especially with the Martian to go to Mars yeah well this movie is really meant to take place in the very very near future so we're right on the cusp of being able to do a lot of the things that that we do in the movie and that is really it's just humbling to think of like what these people do because it's incredibly dangerous and and and so it takes a lot of courage it takes a lot of intelligence and and but it's really also incredibly necessary for us to eventually get some of the species off of our planet you know in order to do so we have to find some other place where we can go and and trying to determine that and figure that out and start to make another place hospitable is like really really tough dangerous work so the world to my family I never stopped fighting to make it home you