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Light spoilers below forAd Astra.
In fact, he hides from everyone: his fellow astronauts, his family, himself.
Most of all, he hides from his wife, a woman named Eve played by Liv Tyler.
Sometimes she pops up in the back of blurry frames, looking disappointed.
Eve has, liberally, five lines.
Some of them are unintelligible, barely making it through the damaged goop of Roys mind.
Im my own person.
I cant just wait for you.
What does Eve do for a living?
What does Eve want from life?
Does Eve have any allergies to medication?
This is not, in any way, a knock on Liv Tyler.
Liv Tyler is a goddess perhaps, as my colleague Madeleine Aggeler has recently posited,the creator herself.
Im pushing through her!
Anyway, Liv Tyler is also in this movie.
(Occasionally, she also stands meaningfully in front of an American flag.)
She paces while her dad and boyfriend are sent to space to save the world from a massive asteroid.
She cries while her boyfriend goes missing for a few hours.
She cries when she learns the mission was successful.
She has to witness the violent death of her father while everyone around her cheers.
She has to stay inside a NASA control center for several days in the same dress.
She does not get to shower.
At one point, one of the NASA employees says to Liv Tyler, Maybe you shouldnt be here.
She looks at him, furious.
I dont have anywhere else to go!
I have a suggestion for where else she could go: space.
Why wont anybody let Liv Tyler go to space???
I want Liv Tyler to drill through an asteroid with a phalluslike instrument and zero sense of irony.
What are you doing with a gun in space?
I want Liv Tyler to override the override.
I want Liv Tyler on a dune buggy, recklessly cannonballing herself across asteroid caverns.
You were always like a daughter to me.
InAd Astra, Liv Tylers Eve shows up once more, near the end of the film.
You get the sense and only the sense, because, again, she does not speak!
It is the most disappointing part of the movie.
Lets chew this iron bitch up, she said.
