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North Carolina native Ariana DeBose stars in new space thriller 'ISS'

Friday, January 19, 2024
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Wake County native Ariana DeBose is starring in ISS a new space thriller.

Debose portrays a scientist making her first trip to the international space station when tensions flare between the Russian and U.S. astronauts after a conflict breaks out on Earth.
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She talked about the different ideas the director had to make it look like she and her fellow castmates were floating in zero gravity.

Ultimately one method worked best.
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"It created more of a real feeling to put us all in harnesses that felt like diapers," DeBose said. "They were quite tight, you know, around your hips, and ...we're tethered to a gantry system."

ISS is playing in theaters now.
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