Phone-Free Movie Sets
Paul Rudd avoids bringing his phone to film sets to encourage human connection.
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Paul Rudd says he avoids bringing his phone to film sets, acknowledging his own phone addiction and arguing that devices disrupt face-to-face connection. On Tom McCarthy’s film “A Statement,” a strict no-phone rule encouraged the cast to talk and bond between takes, an experience Rudd said made the set feel more like an earlier era. The film follows climate experts at a 1980 Florida resort as they work to draft a statement for Congress about carbon dioxide emissions; cast member Amy Ryan also praised the phone-free environment for enriching the work.
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The film’s 20 experts debate how to draft the climate statement in a conference-room setting that Variety likened to “12 Angry Men.”
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Amy Ryan’s character delivers what Variety describes as a “sobering wake-up call” to the group at the film’s climax; Ryan said the lack of notifications and doomscrolling “definitely made the work much more rich.”
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A wider theatrical release for “A Statement” is scheduled for 2027.
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