Benedict Cumberbatch says Hollywood is a ‘grossly wasteful industry’ | Film
Benedict Cumberbatch qualified the Hollywood film industry to “roughly waste”, taking a particular problem with its waste of resources using all construction, lighting – and its physique for blockbusters.
“It’s horrible to eat beyond your appetite,” Cumberbatch told Ruth Rogers on his food-oriented podcast, Ruthie’s Table 4, adding that when he was shooting the doctor of Marvel Strange, he ate five meals a day. In addition, he nibbled hard eggs, almonds and cheese, in order to try to ingest enough proteins to transform his body.
“To return to responsibility, ingenuity and sustainability, is it like:” What am I doing? ” I could feed a family with the amount I eat, ”said Cumberbatch.
“It is a roughly unnecessary industry,” he continued. “Think of the sets of sets that are not recycled, think of transport, think of food, think of housing, but also of light and energy. The amount of power you need to create daylight and coherent light in a studio environment. It is a lot of energy.”
Cumberbatch conceded that actors are frequently accused of hypocrisy when they deplore the lack of sustainability in Hollywood, but said that he tries to “push the green initiative” on sets, as an actor and producer.
He cited single -use plastic as an example, saying: “You do not have to give the crew plastic bottles. If you are in the middle of a desert and you cannot be glass bottles, fairly fair. But we are in the 21st century.”
Films can emit on average between 391 metric tonnes for a small film and up to 3,370 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions for major superproductions; The equivalent of the switching on 702 houses for a year.
In 2021, the Producers Guild of America published a call to the industry scale for a transition to clean energy. “Climate change has an impact on our productions. Our health and safety and our filming places are irreparably damaged by increased pollution, forest fires, floods, storms and droughts, “they wrote. “The sustainability measures currently taken in our industry are sporadic and completely inadequate to reach the current threat level.”
Los Angeles forest fires earlier this year, which killed 31 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures across the city, refocused attention to the commitment of cinema and television in efforts to slow down its impact on the planet.
Among the celebrities whose houses were destroyed in fires, there was Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson, Billy Crystal, Paris Hilton and Eugene Levy, while many – including Meryl Streep and the late David Lynch – were forced to make emergency evacuations.
Some studios have made commitments to try to reduce their carbon footprint. The Walt Disney Company aims to “buy or produce electricity at 100% zero carbon” by 2030, according to its report on the sustainability and social impact of 2023.
Stars such as Jane Fonda, Woody Harrelson and Julia Roberts were broader action champions on environmental issues, while Mark Rylance, Bill Nighy and Hayley Atwell were one of those who supported the introduction of a “green pilot” to guarantee sustainability on the set.
However, the enormous resources necessary to make most of the films at low budget, as well as to promote and market them, means that Hollywood is an industry whose logistics and state of mind are often in contrasting the priority of the planet.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Hollywood’s most publicized defender for ecological conscience, established his eponymous foundation in 1998 to help “restore the balance of threatened ecosystems, guaranteeing long-term health and well-being of all the inhabitants of the earth”.
But despite giving money to more of these objectives and getting involved in a number of plant-based companies, such as Beyond Meat and the hipphe chickpea snacks, the actor was criticized for his remarkable jet set.
Last month, DiCaprio was photographed who apparently tried to hide his face while attending the highly criticized wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in Venice.
