Anthony Mackie doesn’t play video games. He lives them. Case in point: a cinematic car crash in late May that left him unscratched but laid waste to his ride.

“Driving in Atlanta is the best video game you’ve ever played in your life,” Mackie tells me two weeks later, settling in for tacos and margaritas on a sunny afternoon. “It’s literally Twisted Metal.”

We’ll get to his upcoming Peacock adaptation of the beloved ’90s vehicular combat video games soon, along with his starring role in Marvel’s Captain America 4, which is what brings him to Atlanta. (Our 90-minute lunch is sandwiched in between a day of “mo-cap and green screen shit” and an afternoon spent memorizing scripts.) But first, the car crash.

For 378 days, a NASA team will live in a 1,700-square-foot habitat without the ability to leave.

This 3D-printed dwelling is designed to replicate a futuristic Mars base. Its dimensions are akin to where astronauts might shelter from the unforgiving Martian environment on some yet-to-be-manifested mission. NASA, which is already preparing to return astronauts into deep space with Artemis II, announced the beginning of CHAPEA. This is the first mission to test the challenges of Artemis’ most ambitious goal: putting humans on Mars.