Olivia Munn calls space flight with Katy Perry, Gayle King gluttonous

Olivia Munn is not particularly over the moon about Blue Origin’s all-female space expedition.

In fact, the actress is perplexed by the entire ordeal, calling it “gluttonous” during a recent episode of TODAY with Jenna & Friends. The guest cohost questioned the space odyssey that will count Katy Perry and Gayle King among its passengers when it blasts off on April 14, noting that there are more pressing matters occurring on Earth at the moment.

“What are they doing? Like, why?” Munn said during the discussion with cohost Jenna Bush Hager, which occurred at the top of the program. “You know what I mean? I know this is not the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now. What are you guys going to do up in space?”

“They’re going for 11 minutes,” Bush Hager clarified.

Munn quipped in response, “So you’re on like, Magic Mountain.”

“You’re just perplexed,” Bush Hager noted after Munn failed to encapsulate the proper words for how she felt about the ordeal.

Munn added, “And by the way, why do you need to tell us about it? You know? Just go up there, have a good time, come on down. Also, I just think about— I know this is obnoxious but it’s so much money to go to space. There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs. Oh my God, if they bring eggs into space!”

“I can’t imagine what cracking an egg in space would do,” quipped Bush Hager, noting that King “has admitted that she hasn’t stopped worrying” while Perry said she was “not nervous at all.” She added, “But the one thing that is universal is they are all going in glam.”

“What?” an even more perplexed Munn said in response.

Bush Hager clarified, “They are getting their hair done, their makeup done, even eyelash extensions.”

“They said this out loud?” asked Munn, later adding, “What’s the point? I think it’s a bit gluttonous. I don’t know . . . space exploration was to further our knowledge and to help mankind. What are they gonna do up there that has made it better for us down here? I mean, I don’t know if all that rocket fuel is good. This is a lot of resources being spent.”

Other girlbosses set to girlboss into space aboard Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight include his partner Lauren Sanchez; entrepreneur and activist Amanda Nguyen; aerospace engineer and former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe; and film producer Kerianne Flynn. They will take flight on the New Shepard rocket from Launch Site One in West Texas. It will mark the 11th flight for the New Shepard rocket and the first all-female crew since 1963, according to Blue Origin.