well muses and today we're going to take a look at the women from the marsh and this was a two thousand and fifteen film and it played over into two thousand and sixteen oh my gosh i don't know how many weeks this film was on well number one but it really was let alone on all the charts for forever it seemed it just struck a chord with people and basically this was matt damon's movie and  he was someone stranded on mars and nobody knew he was stranded until a little later so it makes for a great great story but the movie also had women in it and what we're going to do on today's episode of the muse is take a look at those very powerful women it's a matter of fact the first one that i'm going to mention has been named as one of the one hundred top most influential people in the world and her name is jessica katz then and wow did she deliver a good performance and we're also going to hear from kris wig it was just refreshing to see her in a non comedy although well i won't get into how one group the martian as a comedy i'll just leave that go if you know it then you know mara and this was a low a great role for her especially after the disastrous fantastic four which i'm sure she'd like to forget about but she is a wonderful talent both her and her sister will be hearing from her and then mackenzie davis the actor who plays the role who discovers that the matt damon character is not dead as everybody on earth and helps to bring bring him back to earth yes so there we go we've got four women and we're going to put all of this in that twenty six minute to be amazing what you're about to say we're going to start off with the trailer so in case you haven't seen the movie you can kind of get a sense of it and then we're going to and then we're going to talk to each of the women and we're going to intersperse that with clips from the film so you get a little bit more context though you are going to be a martian expert at the end of this one now let's hear from these powerful  every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out if a hiker gets lost in the mountains people coordinate a search if an earthquake levels the city people all over the world send them urgency supplies this instant is found in every culture without exception around four thirty am our satellites detected a storm approaching the aries three mission site on mars the storm had escalated to severe and we had no choice but to abort the m and i'm still alive obviously i have no way to contact nasa or my crewmates but even if i could it would take four years for another manned mission to reach me and i'm going to have designed the last thirty one days so in the face of overwhelming odds i'm left with only one option i'm going to have to science the hell ok let's do the math i've got to figure out how to grow four years worth of food here on a planet where nothing grows but if i can figure out a way to make contact with nasa none of this matters anyway still alive in your face neil armstrong man in a changed role to a woman and it's actually in my opinion makes the film a classic and far greater than it would have been if it was a man because it would have been a similar story to what we've seen many times  use a wonderful director and he was on my bucket list people who wanted to work with us and to get to do a space movie with him he's right in the zone space these so it was kind of dream come true there are definitely fun parts to it it's a lot of work and things don't happen quite as the us that they do in a movie and so there's a little bit of us what that goes on that you don't see all the work that goes into what they do but as i've learned about filmmaking it can be actually harder to to float in space that it is actually when you're in space it takes a lot of work and creating the zero gravity creating a zero gravity and all the considerations so that you make it look real i think that's actually hers that's what i want do you wear your ring in space and she said absolutely things like that that connected human part of what it is to actually leave the planet and separate yourself from your loved ones and how important there are some very glamorous moments in space and there are thankfully not not the things that we highlight but what i hope people take on is just what just because that is the human element of this because if it were just robots that we were sending to be hard for everybody to imagine themselves in that place but we're doing most so that we can not only learn more about ourselves but to explore and we don't want to do that alone we want to do that with people and the thing i enjoyed the most about the film was the way that they depicted the connection that the humans in space had with the humans at home whether it was through work or family that's very accurate to what we do in space we have our did i kids this is mark wotte me astronaut we're about six hours before our launch here on the hermes and i've been asked by the good folks at nasa to introduce you to some of our crew mates here which i'm happy to do so  martinez doing the preflight checks and as you can see he's using some pretty sophisticated methods to get us to mars you got enough fingers there rick just telling which i took hi there i am commander melissa and you're not going to get a better answer than that seriously though rick how do we get there well you basically point the bird in that direction you wait one hundred fifty days and thirty six million miles later we should be at mars  this isn't over you and me we're going to talk later  right everyone just a few minutes now before we leave for mars i hope you enjoyed your tour the hermes and see what a stellar crew we have to say goodbye crew by everyone's a comedian all right we want to say goodbye we want to wish everybody here on earth an amazing year while we're gone let's go cobbs actually how about how about holding off on winning that world title till i'm back on earth now that showed me a problem shut up  fan anyway i will have a wonderful year just remember what we do up there where we're doing for everyone here on earth this is going to be an amazing journey for all of us we're all in this together my dad i love y i knew i wanted to be a part of it just to be able to work with ridley and the story was so exciting you know at that point actually i said yes to doing the movie before i read the book because i thought the script was so fantastic i play best johansen and she is basically the computer expert on the mission from my character's point of view is you know she and five other of five other astronauts are on a mission on mars and storm hits and one of the astronauts played by matt damon gets hit by something and we can't find him and we assume he's dead and so our only real option is to leave him there and so on our way back to well on our way back home  get a very cryptic message saying that he is indeed alive and this is after we've already you know attempted to mourn the loss of our friend and so that you know changes everything and we decide as a team to put our lives on the line and to spend a lot more time and space and go back in and and rescue him we started off the shoe filming the storm sequence and we're wearing these incredible wearing these incredible costumes and they were they're very heavy and they're very isolating because you when you put your helmet on you can't hear anybody in the room except you know we're all miked so we can hear each other and we can talk to each other and we're never really wants to speak with us we can hear him as well but you know spending i think it was a few weeks just  these costumes and really stuck with each other's voices in our heads it bonded as a very quickly matt damon is like one of the few people on the planet that i feel like it's just one of those rare human beings that it's far it's really hard to find somebody to say about a thing about him and he's just so likeable and has so many different qualities he's  hilarious but he's also you know his performance is heartbreaking as well and he can kind of do anything so you know after reading the book and the script i just thought well there's nobody better to play this character th damon i guess it doesn't surprise me that that there are so many great actors involved because everyone wants to work with ridley scott i think it's just a really nice it's a it's a testament to how how much people trust him as a filmmaker i understand why people think of ridley first as you know a visual sort of genius because he is but the thing that he  my experience the thing that does make him an actor's director is he has this he has this trust in you as an actor where he really does let you do your thing and it gives you a sort of confidence it gives it gave me a sort of confidence to you know perform the way that i that i see the character and and if he you know if he doesn't say anything about it then you can trust that you're that you're doing your job right and that you are the right person for the job i respect him so much as a filmmaker in and he tells you right away i mean in our first meeting together he he said you know i don't i don't do a lot of takes and we don't really do rehearsal if i'm hiring you it's because you're the person i want to do the job and whatever you do is probably right that said you know if something isn't sounding right he of course tells you and but he's very very open to to your ideas in i just love working with him the most challenging part was definitely wearing the spacesuits because they are really uncomfortable when you're in them for a certain amount of time that said they're absolutely genius so it's hard to not you know want to be in them and everything because when you see it it's just it looks so incredible and  and i know that it took so much time for all those little details but they're really heavy and you know it's kind of physically just sort of draining so that was the those were definitely the hardest days when ever zero gravity work was so much fun because it's such a you know a unique feeling and experience to be doing that but then again you know it's we have such a great group of actors so anytime we're all in the same room together being able to sort of banter with each other that's so it's really fun i think that the same reason a lot of us have a fear of the unknown there's also an excitement of the unknown so i mean that's certainly one of the reasons i get excited about films that takes place in the space ok let's pretend that this  through supplies pick up whatever provisions we need and now we're celebrating swards it's it's great to be doing this kind of movie and to be in you know in mission control set of all that comes up it's kind of exciting just to be a part of this world and yeah i've never really done anything like this before martinez how long before take our twelve minutes policy which is where i have is located and out of steam and curiosity start scanning for the body that should be there because it's only been a month and discovered is that the astronaut that they thought they had left behind on mars is actually alive and marquardt is surviving somehow and so she's the first person who discovered this and brings it to her superiors which sort of gets her thrust into a weight class that she was you know excel under the given circumstances even though they're sort of intimidating to her first but over the course of the movie hard because you know she loses that sort of childlike odd at her superiors and lovely and down to earth and i was so surprised never enormous fan of his work and i was surprised for such a visual director how much he actually liked working with the actors and prioritize that so it was lovely to see that it wasn't just a purely visual movie but he or she likes the you know working on the script and finding the scenes which is what is really fun about this whole thing so yeah i think this character  know erased an intimidation pretty early on they put so much care and detail into everything in the set like all the papers on the desk i always on every side investigate what like each workstation has on it to see if it's true or if it's just a question of stupid somebodies bills or something or just one paper on top that has tax and everything else is blank and everything on every desk was specific to that desk it was just such a level of detail i hadn't experienced before it was so i feel like i didn't realize some of the comedy and then doing the scenes yeah they became quite funny and there's like of lightness to it and just which i think is very realistic but if you spend a lot of time around people which i vincent humor quite sharp there's no greater fear then being completely alone and there's no loneliness like being in a desert that's also a planet and not knowing if anybody knows about you and not knowing if there's a reason to live or something about really being able to identify with one man by himself that everyone can sort of connect with and follow i mean i feel like if this did happen people would follow it in this way it's someone is slowly and phyla crushing a soda can they are inside of us up like a baby from day one so no i don't think the added pressure of being the first woman to command a mission to mars is going to be too intense