Actor Cameron Diaz risked triggering President-elect Donald Trump with a comment about Elon Musk during promotion for her comeback movie, “Back In Action.”
Diaz said “now Elon Musk is our president” while talking with co-star Jamie Foxx about one of her favorite conspiracy theories regarding aliens and possible future life on Mars.
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Foxx looked stunned at the line.
Watch the moment here:
In the video filmed for Complex, the actors were asked to name their GOATs (greatest of all time) of various themes. When it came to conspiracy theories, Diaz explained: “Ooh. The brief version of this is that aliens are basically what we do when we study ourselves archaeologically.”
“All of the accounts of aliens are always the same,” she continued. “Big head, big eyes, no mouth, telepathically speaking, fingers, long, dextrous, and if you think about where we’re at currently in technology, we sit in front of a screen, we don’t speak to each other, we don’t have to talk.”
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Diaz went on: “And then we learn about how the body atrophies in space because there’s no gravity and all the changes that happens on the cellular level and we all know that we’re moving off the planet because now Elon Musk is our president and we’re going to end up on Mars right?”
She concluded: “And when we get to Mars, we’re really going to end up being like a completely different species […] and those aliens will be traveling back in time to study who they were at any particular moment they have revealed themselves to humans. They are us, basically.”
Foxx responded, “When you told me that, that fucked me up.”
Watch the full video here: