Ryan Gosling’s Zero-G Stunts on ‘Project Hail Mary’ Broken Down by the Space Epic’s VFX Supervisors

Oct 18, 2026 12:28am PT Ryan Gosling’s Zero-G Stunts on ‘Project Hail Mary’ Broken Down by the Space Epic’s VFX Supervisors

Oscar-winning supervisor Paul Lambert and co-supervisor Mag Sarnowska also talked at Turin’s View Conference about how ESA star maps, Greig Fraser’s cinematography and puppetry shaped the Ryan Gosling space epic

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For Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Paul Lambert Lambert, of all the huge challenges presented by Ryan Gosling space epic “Project Hail Mary,” the most daunting was creating convincing zero gravity.

“Zero-G was probably my personal biggest concern going into the movie,” he said at View Conference in Turin, Italy, drilling down on its VFX.

“We tried very hard to convince the production to use the vomit comet,” he added, referring to aircraft maneuvers that briefly generate weightlessness. But the spacecraft sets were too elaborate to recreate onboard, so Gosling performed on wire rigs, including a rotating harness.

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