Meryl Streep truly can do anything — including provide an automated voice to a spidery-rock-like alien in Project Hail Mary.
The Ryan Gosling sci-fi film from co-directors and collaborators Chris Miller and Phil Lord, which bowed in theaters March 20 to positive audience and critic reactions, features a school teacher-turned-astronaut who wakes up aboard a spaceship with no recollection as to how he got there. While uncovering the aims of his mission, he forges an unlikely friend and ally in an intelligent extraterrestrial life form, whom he names Rocky.
Once Dr. Ryland Grace (Gosling) devises a computer-operated translation system to communicate with Rocky, who emits musical vibrations as his mode of speech, he chooses from a pre-selected menu of vocal choices — one of which is three-time Academy Award-winning actress Streep.
“When we were on set, we did a bunch of silly voices ourselves,” Miller told Entertainment Weekly
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