For the first time since 1996, cinemas across the globe are on high alert because once again it’s tornado season. A long-awaited sequel to the beloved natural disaster classic Twister is coming to theaters this summer. But you don’t have to wait for the film to spin onto screens to find out what drives this newest generation of storm chasers. Nerdist has an exclusive look at a new clip from Twisters that features its two stars explaining why they love tornadoes so much.
It’s not just the science that drives them. Their life work is sacred.
In this all-new clip, Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Tyler (Glen Powell) each independently mirror one another while offering insights into how tornadoes form. What makes their shared loved even better is they do so while watching a tornado come together in the sky.
This scene is full of fancy meteorological terms we don’t fully understand (and never will). But we don’t need to know all the science behind tornadoes to appreciate this moment. This sequence’s real purpose is to express the majesty of these natural phenomena and why they’re so alluring. Accepting you can’t know everything about tornadoes is part of loving. That’s not something these scientists have to accept, it’s something they embrace. Chasing these storms is a religious experience just as much as it is a scientific one.
We’re not saying we’re ready to go actually hunting twisters after seeing this clip. What we are saying we’re more excited than ever to watch Kate and Tyler do exactly that while we enjoy popcorn and Goobers from the comfort of a movie theater.
Just not an outdoor movie theater. We remember what happened at that drive-in during the original movie. Seeing that taught us everything we need to know about tornadoes: stay very far away from them. There’s a reason we went into a profession where we write about movies instead of becoming the new generation of storm chasers.
Twisters crashes into theaters on July 19.