"Stratt gave him a short amount of time because she needed him to leave; Rocky gave him a lot of time because he wanted him to stay" GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME
Project Hail Mary costumer designers David Crossman and Glyn Dillon talked about the end sequence
“The fun thing for us for that end sequence was like, his costume, what he would have left over from the ship. The trousers that he's wearing, they're cut from one of the flight suits and he's wearing a belt and we've done a belt buckle that's like made of xenonite that Rocky would have made for him.
And all of the sewing on it is a little bit, you know, it's nowhere near as good as Jenny would normally do. So, we had to purposely ask Jenny to do bad sewing from the top of his trousers so it looked like he would have done it.
And then our brilliant breakdown department run by Tim Shanahan. They kind of they break everything down to look like it's you know 10, 20 years old. So his cardigan and the t-shirts all faded and even on the laces.
Because your laces always break after a certain period of time. So we found stuff that was on the ship like elastics and stuff and there's a nice bit close-up actually in the film so you can see that that they're not normal laces, they're like stuff that he would have got from the ship that he's made as makeshift laces.”
Yo sé que es un comentario súper radfem pero es increíble que cada vez que hablo con un varón estoy a un paso más lejos de hablarle al próximo. La demencia que manejan es total.
A small spoiler, so consider this your heads-up.
In one of the final scenes, Eva Stratt has a subtle tattoo on her neck: a crossed-out "V". It’s easy to miss, but it carries a lot of meaning. The "V" comes from the French word 'via' ("life"), and the strike through it points to a life that was taken or lost.
The detail comes from Andy Weir's idea of where Stratt's story goes after the Hail Mary mission launches. In the book, she predicts her own fate with unsettling clarity: once her role is fulfilled, governments turn on her, stripping of power and ultimately imprisoning in a French prison for the very ruthlessness that made the mission possible.
The film quietly extends that arc. The last scene suggests she made it out, and somehow found her way back to the work of saving humanity.
All of this was confirmed by the directors in an interview.