Georgia Goodman Talks ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ and Favorite Moments from the Film

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die has left an undeniable impact on how audiences view the use of AI.

Gore Verbinski’s film establishes that society’s reliance on technology has become a danger that may pose bigger problems — whether that is scrolling endlessly on social media or using generative AI.

I recently spoke with Georgia Goodman, who plays soft-spoken, pie-loving Marie, about her role in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, AI’s impact on the environment, and much more.

Goodman was acquainted with Verbinski’s previous films before officially meeting him. However, when she began working with the Pirates of the Caribbean director, she was stunned by his methods.

“It was so interesting seeing him on the set, behind the camera, and how he would work with the crew,” Goodman began. “He’s very soft spoken, which I thought, ‘Oh, how is he going to make himself heard?'”

“It’s almost as if those images from the film and screen where you see really genius kids working. You can see the brain working, and that’s how he was behind the camera, which was really exciting.”

Goodman also recalled when she first discovered Verbinski was working on the film:

“I found out that he had been working on this film for years before we finally shot it in 2024. I remember the first day we got on set, all the storyboards for the entire film were already mapped out,” Goodman recalled. “It was absolutely incredible. Not a lot of directors bother to take the time to do storyboards.”

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Working with Verbinski and the Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die cast, Goodman had many memorable moments. However, Sam Rockwell’s opening monologue is a standout experience for the actress.

“That first scene took one whole week,” Goodman noted. She explained that Sam Rockwell’s character was “jumping from one conversation to the next. It was interesting for me to watch Sam — that costume that you see him wear, it’s just plastic. He could not breathe and was overheating inside his costume. In between shots, they had a portable air conditioning unit that they would hook up to cool him down.”

“That whole week was, for me, an exercise of watching what a number one on the call sheet does because Sam never complained. Everything that you see in that movie, it was an entire week of him suffering in his costume, but still delivering every single time.”

Additionally, Goodman enjoyed filming the scenes where the group took shelter in an abandoned location. Despite it looking like a garage, it was actually a shopping center.

“I really enjoyed the night shoots,” Goodman recalled. “I think the location of the abandoned garage, it’s a real abandoned shopping center in Cape Town. They actually filmed the Resident Evil TV series there.”

With the ever-growing need for technology in today’s world, many still fear the potential takeover of artificial intelligence. Goodman said one of her biggest concerns with AI is how it will affect the environment, and how much water is needed for those systems to work.

“We don’t really address the water issue in the movie, but I think about the barren landscape from where Sam Rockwell’s character was living. Hopefully, it will show people that those are the dangers of where we’re going.”

Goodman was also a part of the production of Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, which sees Glen Powell playing the role of Ben Richards, a man trying to escape his hunters to win an incredible amount of money.

Much like Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, Wright’s film also deals with consumerism and escapism in its own way.

Goodman discussed how both of these films are thematically intertwined: “In Good Luck, it shows how getting addicted to technology, where people like [Haley Lu Richardson’s] boyfriend character purposefully chooses to live in the virtual reality rather than in the real world.”

“In The Running Man, they don’t choose to live in the virtual world, but they choose to escape in that world. My scenes were unfortunately cut, but what [Edgar Wright] wanted to do was basically show that consumerism. My scenes were part of a Kardashian-type of reality TV series.”

“He wanted to show that in the future, people only watched glamorous people with a lifestyle that they can’t attain, gore, and death,” Goodman said. “It’s showing us the dangers of trying to escape your life a little bit too much. It’s now a form of addiction, really.”

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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is now playing in theaters.

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