Tiffany Boone is tremendous in George Clooney’s TheMidnightSky, delivering the most memorable scene in a movie full of them, and standing out in a cast full of A-listers
Tiffany Boone in The Midnight Sky. Photo: Amazon/ The Midnight Sky is this year’s annual prestige space movie, and therefore something I typically would not watch. It’s just that space movies are so stressful: There’s always a terrifying sense of aloneness, a space-induced death, and the lingering feeling that life on Earth is totally insignificant in the blankness of the universe.
And this film, which is directed by and stars George Clooney, checks all of those boxes. Sporting a Zeus-like beard, Clooney plays a cancer-stricken scientist trying to prevent a group of astronauts from coming back to Earth. Thankfully, part of this group includes Tiffany Boone, who plays Maya, a young Black astronaut who is too hip to know who Neil Diamond is.
Beyond that, Maya doesn’t get much more of a backstory, and she’s killed off in one of the most harrowing death scenes I’ve seen in any film . Despite of having such a transient role, Boone is tremendous, delivering the most memorable scene in a movie full of them, and standing out in a cast full of A-listers. The Cut talked to her about space movies, dying onscreen, and working with George Clooney:I think it’s supercool to see a Black female astronaut.
I have died onscreen before. In The Following I was tortured to death. But I was very concerned about this death scene. It was originally written that she takes her last breath onscreen, which I was freaking out about. And also, it’s in zero gravity, and your limbs are still kind of floating.
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