As the likes of Interstellar and the recent Ad Astra prove, space exploration is a largely male-dominated business—at least, on the big screen. But in real life, there is much more diversity, as di…
prove, space exploration is a largely male-dominated business—at least, on the big screen. But in real life, there is much more diversity, as director Alice Winocour found out when she began researching, the story of a female astronaut and mother named Sarah , who is training for a stint in space. “She is assigned for a mission [for] one year,” Winocour told us when she came to the Deadline studio, “so she has to leave the Earth—of course—and her daughter, who is eight.
The film had been brewing in Winocour’s mind for many years, she said. “As a kid, I was fascinated by space,” she told us, “but it was more like an abstract and political attraction. Then I started to discover this world, and it really swallowed me up.
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