'Interstellar' Cast Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Christopher Nolan Share Deep Thoughts On Their Sci-Fi Film

The A-list cast for the new movie Interstellar graces the cover of The Hollywood Reporter. In the spread, Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway and director Christopher Nolan give their two cents regarding how the science fiction film changed their opinions regarding philosophy, humanity and religion. Here what the cast had to say.

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"I think [this] affirmed certain things about the interconnectivity of things," revealed Hathaway who plays Amelia Band in the movie. "About trusting others and the meaning behind things, even if it doesn't make sense, even if it hurts. Over the long, infinite arc of time, things tend to happen as they should and they usually find their place, their slot."

The film features a team of space travelers who discovers and travels through a wormhole (which can connect separated regions of space-time). Among the travelers is a widowed engineer (McConaughey) who must decide if he will leave his motherless children to embark on the voyage that can potentially save mankind.

"It opened my view a little bit. My views of what's out there expanded for me after doing this film called Contact [1997]," explained McConaughey. "I've always been someone who didn't go to see sci-fi films; I didn't read sci-fi books as a child. And my thoughts were always [about] what's tangible, what we have right here, maybe what's beneath the sea, but I was never looking out there. That always was sort of an unknown. 'Oh, don't worry about that; it's not attainable.'"

Zero Dark Thirty star Chastain started to think of humanity as being all connected. "It also coincided with this idea that I believe that we're all connected. Not just in this moment but in every moment. So as I was wrapping my head around the science of the film, I was incredibly moved by the human component of the film, and definitely it coincided with my spiritual beliefs."