Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up,” the last shoe to drop this awards season, was unspooled before a crowd of BAFTA voters at the Harmony Gold Theatre on Wednesday night.
In attendance for a Q&a with the Oscar-winning stars Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”), Jennifer Lawrence (“Silver Linings Playbook”) and Meryl Streep, along with director, writer and producer Adam McKay (“The Big Short”), the screening was introduced to the attending members by Matthew Wiseman, BAFTA Los Angeles CEO, and moderated by John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.McKay spoke about working with Oscar-nominated composer Nicholas Britell (“Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk”) on the original song, “Just Look Up,” which was co-written by Tara Stinson, along with Ariana Grande and Scott Mescudi, a.k.a.
Kid Cudi, who also have roles in the film.
“You have to write the song to save all of mankind,” McKay shares.
After Britell
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