Liz W. Garcia during Space Cadet interview
Summary Rex had always dreamed of being an astronaut, but her life didn't take the path one needed to be NASA bound in Space Cadet. However, when her best friend, Nadine, helps her adjust her resume to better fit what NASA is looking for, Rex is unexpectedly chosen as one of the recruits for the NASA astronaut training program. Rex now has an opportunity to prove herself and, while on paper she may not be the perfect recruit, she may be exactly what NASA needs.
Screen Rant interviewed Space Cadet writer and director Liz W. Garcia. She discussed collaborating with Emma Roberts as an actor and producer. Garcia also shared what inspired Space Cadet and why she wanted the protagonist to be an underdog hero who has an unexpected skill set that does prove her value to NASA.
But also it made me think about, what if you're not that person? What if you don't know from the time that you're in high school that you want to go to the college where you're going to get the STEM degree and then you're going to get the higher degree? That feels like more realistic, that feels like more of us, are like that where it takes a lot to have the audacity to think, I could be an astronaut.
Liz W. Garcia: When you get to work with someone who is as experienced, funny, smart, and savvy as Emma, you are so lucky. People think, I think that directors, they think of them in isolation, but the reality is you're only as good as the people that you're surrounded by. Liz W. Garcia: Rex is someone who grew up in Florida watching the shuttle launches, being hugely inspired by it being told by her mother. That's a dream that you could achieve. But then when she loses her mother, when her mother passes away, her life takes this turn, and then 10 years have gone by and she hasn't lived up to her potential. And she has this flash of thinking, maybe I could do this, maybe I could return to this dream. But she's got no qualifications.
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