The Space Between Us (I) (2017)

Gary Oldman: Nathaniel Shepherd

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• Gardner Elliot : What is your favorite thing about Earth?

  Nathaniel Shepherd : Rain. My turn. What is your favorite thing to do on Mars?

  Gardner Elliot : To pretend it's Earth.

• [first lines] 

  Nathaniel Shepherd : [speaking from the podium]  I wanted to go to Mars. Not just a visit, I want to live there. Because then I'd be living truth that life on Mars Is possible. Proof that if we had to, Mankind can make a fresh start. We're in trouble and it's our fault, and we're running out of time, and mother nature doesn't negotiate. We can't give up, not now. Mars is a planet, ripe and ready for life. Earth's resources might be depleted but there is one resource we must never neglect. It's the most valuable, and it's the one without limits. Courage.

  [applause] 

  Nathaniel Shepherd : I wrote those words... I wrote those words when I was 12 a years old; my letter to the Whitehouse. Never did I imagine The President would read them loud to a nation mourning the loss of the another crew of astronauts. Never did I dreamed that I would be proclaimed an emblem of fortitude - the young man with the singular vision, and the rest is, well, it's not history, just the beginning.

  [enthusiastic applause] 

  Nathaniel Shepherd : Here we all are. Thanks to Genesis Space Technologies, in 20 hours the Magellan 61 will travel six astronauts to Mars, not to visit but to live there. The first true citizens of Mars!

  [more applause] 

  Nathaniel Shepherd : From a childhood vision to the greatest spacing gather the world has ever attempted. The settlement known as East Texas Mars.

  [more applause] 

  Nathaniel Shepherd : Come on, say it with me,

  [all in unison] 

  Nathaniel Shepherd : "Just Add Water."

• Gardner Elliot : What was she like? My mother.

  Nathaniel Shepherd : She was fearless She was kind And she just... seemed so invincible. And she'd make me wanna give up living when she died.

• Nathaniel Shepherd : But it's like the malignancy of any secret. It just kept getting worse. Every time I go over it, what I did, the choices I made, I couldn't have done anything else. But that's, that's not the point. I dealt with the problem. I just had no idea what the solution would do to me. It killed me, and I say, it's still killing me.