In the new environmental satire don't look up, two American scientists make grim discovery.

A massive comet is hurtling toward earth and threatening an extinction level event.

The only problem, they can't get the media or the president to pay attention.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as the scientists and Meryl Streep plays

the president.

I'm Stephen Thompson and today we are talking about Don't Look Up on Pop Culture Happy Hour

from NPR.

Welcome back, joining me is NPR political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben.

Welcome back Danielle.

Hey there.

It is great to have you.

So, this is a award season and Don't Look Up has a crazy Academy Awards pedigree writer

director Adam McKay won an Oscar for the Big Short and was nominated for Vice in addition

to Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep, all of them Oscar winners.

The president's idiot son in this movie who is also her chief of staff is played by

two-time nominee Jonah Hill.

They are beholden to an eccentric tech billionaire played by Oscar winner Mark Reilens.

Along the way, Lawrence and DiCaprio try to get the attention of the media represented

in Don't Look Up by a pair of TV morning show hosts.

They are played by two-time Oscar winner Kate Blanchett and Tyler Perry who got the Oscars

Humanitarian Award earlier this year, Oscars on Oscars on Oscars.

Blanchett and Perry are more interested in gossiping about the relationship between a pop

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