2023 Sustainability Issue

Yara Shahidi, Eiza González, Ben Harper, Kit Harington, Sienna Miller and Gemma Chan were filmed and photographed March 14 at The Pendry West Hollywood. Photographed by Jai Lennard, video direction by David Rowe, set design by Charlotte Malmlof, cinematography by Ted Newsome.

Sienna Miller, Yara Shahidi and Kit Harington are among the star-studded cast of Apple TV+’s ambitious limited series, which asks what happens to humanity in the near future when global warming upends every aspect of our lives. “I hope people are moved, entertained and perhaps a little bit scared,” says co-star Gemma Chan. The same could be said about the rest of The Hollywood Reporter’s second annual, digital-only Sustainability Issue, which celebrates what the entertainment industry is doing to address the climate crisis — and examines what more can be done.

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Yes, I Did Say That!

A look at who’s saying what about the climate crisis.

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The Report

Behind the headlines

Courtesy of Earth Angel, Good Energy

Sustainable Sets

By Sharon Swart

Letter From the Editor

For Hollywood to Truly Heed the Crisis Call for Our Planet, Every Level Must Be Involved

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody

Checking In

Good Energy Expands to Incorporate Sustainability Consulting and Workshops

By Evan Nicole Brown

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People, places, preoccupations

About Town

“Sustainability inspires us to ask a few more questions, probe a little deeper, and go beyond the aesthetic.”

Zoe SaldaÑa

The actress, to The Hollywood Reporter, on her decision to wear sustainable fashion on the Oscars red carpet this year.

“At home, the most important thing you can do for the environment is with your fork.”

Alicia Silverstone

The Clueless actress, to The New York Times, on how veganism can make an environmental impact.

Business of Green

How Hollywood Courts Wall Street’s ESG Investors

By Alex Weprin

Celeb Tips

Natalie Morales, Annie Lennox and More on Their Green Routines

By Danielle Directo-Meston

Podcasts

A Matter of Degrees Co-Host: Hollywood Needs More Climate Stories

By J. Clara Chan

waste not

How to Green-ify Awards Season

By Kirsten Chuba

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How Hollywood lives

Style

Electric Cars

Behind Netflix and GM’s Plan to Give EVs More Screen Time

By Jon Alain Guzik

Hidden Costs

The Environmental Cost of Red Carpet Fashion

By Dana Thomas

Eco Travel

The Caribbean’s Newest, Super-Sustainable, Off-the-Grid Resort

By KATHRYN ROMEYN

Compiled by Danielle Directo-Meston

Stars went green on the red carpet by recycling old looks, pulling from designer archives and wearing pieces made from upcycled or renewable fabrics that reduce waste and carbon emissions. See the best eco-conscious ensembles at the Academy Awards and more.

The Best Sustainable Looks This Awards Season

Styled by Elizabeth Stewart, Cate Blanchett wears a custom Louis Vuitton look with an archival top and a skirt sewn from sustainable silk (made with a pesticide-free process) at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.

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Director Q&A

Eli Roth Wants to Make His Shark Slaughter Doc Fin a “Totally Obsolete Movie”

By Katie Kilkenny

“I cannot stand by while the planet is slowly coated in a thin, oily film of plastic, to be inherited by our children and generations to come.”

Tom Ford

The fashion designer, at the 2023 Green Carpet Fashion Awards, on his motivation for taking greater action toward sustainability.

Future Filming

Portugal’s Tage Studios Promises to Be Europe’s First Entirely Green Shooting Facility

By Scott Roxborough

Video

How Ed Begley Jr. Became the Most Eco-friendly Person in Hollywood

Photographed by Jai Lennard

The Stars of Extrapolations

From left, Extrapolations castmembers Yara Shahidi, Eiza González, Ben Harper, Kit Harington, Sienna Miller and Gemma Chan. Apple TV+'s ambitious limited series asks what happens to humanity in the near future when global warming upends every aspect of our lives, including the way we love and grieve.

Critic’s Notebook

10 Eerie Documentaries About the Wonders of Planet Earth

By Robyn Bahr

Living Green

“Connected to the Land”: Inside Wendie Malick’s Remote Sustainable Home

By Evan Nicole Brown

Shopping with THR

Hollywood’s Favorite Hacks for Living More Sustainably

By Danielle Directo-Meston

Hollywood Flashback

In 1973, ‘Soylent Green’ Depicted an Overpopulated Planet With a Dark Secret

By Seth Abramovitch

“When I read that 50 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds don’t believe in the future because they’re so convinced that we don’t have a future, I don’t believe that’s the truth.”

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The Game of Thrones star telling Rolling Stone that the climate crisis can be resolved if humans change their impact on the planet.

“I took a vow five years ago to go after single-use plastic, because it kills me. … As much as I can disrupt, I like kicking up a little dust for the world, and the environment.”

Jason Momoa

The Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom star, to The Hollywood Reporter, about why he promotes the use of aluminum bottles.

“I’ve changed my name to Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson. This is not a joke, I’m as serious as the melting Arctic.”

Rainn Wilson

The Office actor, in a statement, sharing that he “changed” his name, in partnership with Arctic Basecamp, to bring attention to climate change.

“Hold your streamers and your studios to account. It’s OK to say, ‘Hey, we want to try to get as close to carbon zero as possible.’ ”

Scott Z. Burns

The Extrapolations creator and executive producer on pushing to make production sets green.

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Kit Harington plays Alpha CEO Nicholas Bilton. “You could pick any one of those kinds of tech billionaires and decide that’s who he’s based on,” says the actor. “But really, he’s his own invention.”

Eiza González appears in the series’ penultimate episode alongside Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker and Tobey Maguire: “What I loved about the episode is it allowed for deep conversations on-set,” she says.

Sienna Miller says the Extrapolations set was the most sustainable she’s ever been on. “It was really environmentally conscious, and that was a treat,” she says. “I’ve been on sets with bamboo stools, but nothing to the degree that this was.”

“As much as you may think of it as an extreme imagining of the future,” Yara Shahidi says of the show, “Is it really all that extreme? Is it really all that unrealistic?”

The final episode of season one opens with a scene of Grammy Award-winning blues musician Ben Harper singing a pared-down version of Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” onstage.

In episode six, Gemma Chan plays a single mother who finds a father figure for her daughter through an app. “I found it really interesting, this idea that in society at that time, everything will have become so divided and fragmented that we’re connecting in this kind of way,” she says.

Scott Z. Burns, who co-created Extrapolations, says it was important to them that the show’s production be as sustainable as possible: “We needed to try and make it in the way that the subject matter required of us,” says Burns.

Cover shoot

Green Carpet Fashion Awards 2023 co-chair Simu Liu (with girlfriend Allison Hsu, Interscope’s digital marketing manager) wears a Marine Serre Regenerated Moon Diamant suit made of upcycled fabrics.

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Actress and Oscars preshow host Vanessa Hudgens in vintage Chanel at the 95th annual Academy Awards.

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Natalie Morales wears a sustainably made corset and skirt by Los Angeles designer Kate Barton (who reduces waste through cutting and draping techniques) at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards.

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Kerry Washington in vintage Donna Karan at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.

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Rooney Mara wears vintage Alexander McQueen at the 2023 Oscars.

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She Said actress and Hire Survivors Hollywood founder Sarah Ann Masse wore a byVinnik dress made of deadstock fabric at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards.

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The Fabelmans star and RCDG Global ambassador Chloe East at the Oscars in a gown by Monique Lhuillier made of sustainable Tencel, a responsibly harvested, wood-based fiber that is fully biodegradable and compostable.

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Eco Age founder Livia Giuggioli Firth in a vintage Alexander McQueen gown from her own closet, and Cate Blanchett in a custom mint Valentino suit made from archival and deadstock fabric at the GCFAs.

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Model Camille Rowe at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in a vintage Karl Lagerfeld-era Chloé dress.

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Model and Cay Skin founder Winnie Harlow in a gown from Armani Privé’s Spring 2005 collection at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.

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Model Georgia May Jagger at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in a vintage L’Wren Scott sequined floral gown.

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Avatar star and RCGD Global ambassador Zoe Saldaña paired new and vintage jewelry with her nightgown-inspired dress from Fendi's Spring 2023 collection at the Oscars.

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Activist/model and Green Carpet Fashion Awards 2023 co-chair Quannah Chasinghorse wears a vintage Donna Karan dress with shoulder cutouts.

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At the RCGD Global pre-Oscars party, R’Bonney Gabriel wears a Rene Garza dress made of recycled tablecloth strips, Avatar: The Way of Water actress Bailey Bass in an archival Zac Posen dress, and Tati Gabrielle in a bespoke Vivienne Westwood dress made of upcycled materials. (All are RCGD Global ambassadors.)

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At the Green Carpet Fashion Awards, Jodie Turner-Smith rewears a 2021 Gucci gown and jewelry made from recycled and ethically sourced gems and materials.