Reuters spoke with Bill Murray and Chloe Sevigny, who portray
police, and Tilda Swinton, who plays a mysterious funeral parlor
worker, about the film's albeit lighthearted environmentalism.
Below are edited excerpts.
TILDA SWINTON
Q: Why is environmentalism such a key theme here?
A: "It's the landscape of the film, it very often is in zombie
films ... (they) are a very useful kind of Trojan Horse to talk
about society's relationship with itself and the environment.
But I would say it's whatever anybody sees in it and this is a
landscape that really concerns Jim and all of us."
Q: What do you do personally to be environmentally friendly?
A: "I would like to fly a great deal less. I think we should all
fly less anyway for about a million different reasons and not
only to do with the effect of it on our planet but also on our
bodies."
BILL MURRAY
Q: What do you do to be environmentally friendly?
A: "I'm no hero but I tried to give up plastic bottles about
three or four years ago. I think I've had about four since the
situation arose, I either had to take medicine or something like
that ... I realized I was drinking probably 100 plastic bottles
of water a month. I thought, well, that's 1,200 a year, at
least. And that's one person. So I gave up and stopped it and I
find that glass bottle water tastes better."
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CHLOE SEVIGNY
Q: As someone associated with fashion, what do you do for the
environment?
A: "I try not to use any single-use plastic and not use the dryer,
take quick showers. It's all the little things that one can do one
hopes will accumulate in some way.
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"Flying is always one of the worst and that's unfortunately
unavoidable in my line of work but I do compost in Manhattan and buy
mostly recycled clothes. I'm trying to just not consume as much as
maybe I have in the past and just try and spread that word to
especially young girls. I'm somewhat of a fashion icon and I try
encourage people to buy vintage or buy slightly used."
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
editing by Jason Neely)
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