Springall’s performance is mostly silent, as her character has experienced something quite traumatic. Clooney and Springall had to shoot in blizzard conditions in a country that was only light from 11 a.m to 3 p.m. “Caoilinn had these big goggles on, wrapped up and getting blown over and knocked down to the ground,” Clooney tells Variety. The Midnight Sky cast is led by George Clooney, who also directs the film.Based on Lily Brooks-Dalton's 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight, the 2020 Netflix film follows a scientist who tries to warn U.S. astronauts about major trouble on Earth.The Midnight Sky was written by Mark L. Smith, who previously wrote The Revenant, The Hitman's Bodyguard, and Overlord. ‘The Midnight Sky’ is a sci-fi film that portrays George Clooney’s post-apocalyptic vision as he depicts the character of Augustine Lofthouse, an ambitious scientist who ventures through the Arctic Circle with a young girl, Iris, in the aftermath of a global catastrophe to fend off a spaceship. Your email address will not be published. She doesn’t say a word, but when she draws a picture on a flower, he realizes her name is Iris. There is a machine that plays memories of home for the crew, and Sanchez goes to it and plays Maya’s. Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a mask while out in public has become the recommended practice. It’s Caoilinn Springall’s First Film appeared first on Bustle. It all started with her family getting a call to set up her meeting with the casting director and producers, Grant Heslov and Clooney himself. George Clooney's Netflix movie 'The Midnight Sky' is an apocalyptic tale that leaves two characters with a hopeful yet daunting ending. She eventually went numb and then sweated it out until finally getting a call back after a couple of weeks. Accompanying Augustine on the mission is a young girl who barely says a word, played by Caoilinn Springall, who Augustine decides to call Iris, and who, the astronaut assumes, has been mistakenly left behind by a colleague on his former Arctic base. George told me to do this important scene as Iris, and then we waited a couple of weeks. But even though she’s a definite newcomer (The Midnight Sky is her first film) Springall went toe-to-toe with Clooney in a powerfully moving performance. Self-admittedly the most demanding film of the Oscar-winner’s career, he has not only directed it but also co-produced it along with the 7-year-old newcomer, Caoilinn Springall playing the role of Iris. 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