'Ron Howard is an amazing director and lovely person': interview with actress of film 'Inferno' Kata Sarbó

I play Ava Macon an astronaut in Mars who is also a math savant. She is one of the first astronauts who is part of the first international team who want to go and find the evidence of life existing on Mars. It was a very exciting project for me. I used to read lots of books on cosmology, how the universe, the planets, the Sun and the Earth were born. In the summer time I would just sit outside under the sky at nights and watch the stars for hours... I was amazed by how huge the world is and I remember this very strong feeling of realization how tiny species we are indeed. I actually wanted to be an astronomer. So bringing Ava Macon to life was sort of a dream coming true for me.  Identifying myself with her character was challenging for me at the beginning. The film is quite realistic and I had to learn all kinds of special technical terms which I did not know what they actually mean when I first saw the script. But we had three days of an amazing boot camp with a real Nasa astronaut where we learned all kind of things that helped us understand about space research and how real astronauts are. How they are trained to become an astronaut and what the psychological effects could be they need to face and bare during the journey to the red planet.