Bringing Real Science to the Big Screen

January 22, 2019 • by Marc Airhart

Scientist Kip Thorne talks with his former graduate student Bill Press about what it's like to work on a major Hollywood film.

An astronaut walks across a frozen, alien landscape

What's it like for a scientist to work as an advisor on a major Hollywood film? In this first of a two-part conversation, Kip Thorne talks with his former graduate student Bill Press about the impact that a film like Interstellar can have on the public, balancing scientific accuracy and entertainment and what winning the Nobel Prize really says about a scientists' worth. (BTW, Interstellar star Matthew McConaughey is also a UT Austin alum and [update as of August 2019] member of the faculty.)

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