In news as indebted to the off the charts realism and arduously-achieved technical brilliance of sci-fi masterpiece Gravity as to the research skills of someone who has grossly overestimated the bounds of Hollywood filmmaking, a reporter from a TV station in Mexico has unwittingly become The Internet’s Biggest Idiot of the Last 24 Hours after he asked the film’s director, Alfonso Cuarón, how difficult it was to shoot in space.
“Was it very difficult, very complicated to film in space?” the reporter asked at a press conference in Mexico. “Did the camera operators get sick?”
Cuarón’s response?
“Well, yes, we took some cameras there aboard the Soyuz. We were in
space for three-and-a-half months. I got really sick during training.”
The clip is in Spanish but features a few things we can all understand: people laughing and a bemused not sure if serious face.
In the reporter’s defense…
