Physicist Kip Thorne served as a scientific consultant on Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
Thorne, a theoretical physicist and later Nobel Prize winner, helped shape the film’s treatment of black holes, wormholes, relativity, and gravitational effects. He also received an executive producer credit and wrote The Science of Interstellar, which explains the scientific ideas behind the movie.
Interstellar was released in 2014 and follows former NASA pilot Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey, who joins a mission through a wormhole near Saturn. The team searches for a habitable world as Earth faces an environmental crisis.
The film takes creative liberties, but its depiction of the black hole Gargantua was based on calculations derived from general relativity. The visual work became notable for presenting a rotating black hole in a way designed to reflect the underlying physics rather than relying only on familiar science-fiction imagery.