You couldn’t hope for a starrier cast than the one that populates Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” which is packed with Oscar-winners, from pricey leads Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence (Netflix paid them $55 million) to supporting players Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett.
No wonder the cast and crew was all too happy to turn up on the late-breaking awards campaign trail, care of several early Q&As crammed with SAG and Academy actors in New York and Los Angeles.Last week’s reaction at the Bruin in Westwood was raucous as befits a laugh-out-loud comedy about the end of the world (a similar tone swept Monday’s NYC screening at the Paris).
But critics and awards voters look forward to movies from McKay because his dense comedies have political underpinnings, whether it’s Michael Lewis’ true characters from the world of finance (“The Big Short”) or the saga
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