Mark Rylance has stated he believes Tesla CEO Elon Musk is ‘harmful.’
The actor, 62, starred in hit Netflix film Don’t Look Up, and says he primarily based his villainous character on the 50-year-old entrepreneur.
He performed billionaire Peter Isherwell within the apocalyptic black comedy, a personality that many viewers thought have been a mixture of a number of the world’s richest males – Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.
Talking with The Hollywood Reporter, Rylance has revealed he ‘checked out all these fellas’ for inspiration.
The Dunkirk actor shared: ‘I did learn Elon Musk’s e-book – about half of it.
‘I definitely thought lots about that mindset of males and know-how being the best factor within the universe, that nothing else is a better drive and something that nature throws at us, we’ll take care of it.’
Rylance continued to share his ideas on these enterprise moguls, including: ‘They’re considering they’re doing good – so there’s that scene the place [Isherwell] will get upset when [Leonardo DiCaprio’s] character thinks he’s only a businessman. These individuals have very high-minded concepts about what they’re doing. They don’t assume they’re dangerous individuals, fairly the opposite.
‘You get that impression from Elon Musk. They assume they’re going to avoid wasting humanity. I feel they’re harmful.’
In September final 12 months, Forbes introduced that Musk had a web price of over $200 billion (£149billion) and was the richest individual on the earth, after Tesla inventory surged.
Then, in November, Musk turned the primary individual with a web price over $300billion.
Earlier this month, the CEO gave an replace on SpaceX’s Starship, (set to hold astronauts to the moon and Mars) following its announcement in 2019.
Regardless of a bunch of technical and regulatory hurdles but to be overcome, Musk stated he was ‘extremely assured’ this was the 12 months his new Starship would make it to orbit.
He additionally revealed that a Starship launch may value lower than $10million (£7.4million) per flight, inside two to 3 years, making area journey all of the extra reasonably priced for people.
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