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Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics
Adam McKay says the Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio-starring satire resonates with a widespread feeling of being deceived by government and media
Saying that while Netflix, the film’s distributors, would not release definitive audience figures, he estimated that “somewhere between 400 million and half a billion” people saw it, and that “viewers all really connected with the idea of being gaslit”. Don’t Look Up features Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as a PhD student and professor who attempt to convince the world about an impending planetary catastrophe. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw described it as “laboured, self-conscious and unrelaxed” in a two-star review, and the film received four Oscar nominations, failing to win any.
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