Olivia Wilde, Emily Ratajkowski criticize Katy Perry’s space flight: ‘For what?’

Actress-director Olivia Wilde and actress-model Emily Ratajkowski were not impressed as they spoke out against the recent Blue Origin flight that took pop star Katy Perry and five other women to space.

Wilde reposted a meme of Perry kissing the ground upon her return from space via her Instagram Story and wrote, “Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess.”

Ratajkowski, on the other hand, expressed her apparent “disgust” with the space mission as she questioned the intention and the amount of resources it took to send the six women to the edge of Earth’s atmosphere.

“This is beyond parody,” the actress-model said on her TikTok video. “Saying that you care about Mother Earth and that it’s about Mother Earth, while you’re going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that is single-handedly destroying the planet. Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space. For what? What was the marketing there? And then to try to make it seem like I’m disgusted.”

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Actress Olivia Munn, meanwhile, described the entire rocket launch as “gluttonous,” as she explained how the world has other things to worry about aside from sending people to space.

“What are they doing? Like, why? I’m just saying this. I know this is probably not the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are incredibly important in the world right now,” she said during an appearance on Today. “It costs so much money to go to space. There are a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs… I think it’s a bit gluttonous.”

On Monday, Perry joined Nobel Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, ex-rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn and journalist Lauren Sanchez, who is engaged to Amazon founder and Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos, on an 11-minute flight to space, the first mission for an all-female space crew since 1963.