Carice van Houten suffers from fear of traveling, a kind of transaviaphobia. She fears that it is 45 degrees at all holiday destinations. “I’m just scared.”
As a climate activist, Carice van Houten suffers a lot from the so-called accusation of hypocrisy: people are skeptical that she is fighting against global warming, while her ecological footprint is quite large. According to Guido den Aantrekker, she is now even being vomited on by KLM staff. “She flies around the world!”
‘Everywhere 45 degrees’
Carice tells in her podcast with Halina Reijn, however, that everything is not too bad. She is actually afraid of going on holiday. “I’m just afraid: where am I going to go, you know? It will be 45 degrees everywhere. Where should you go then? What’s fun then? I don’t really feel like it either, to be honest.”
A blessing in disguise: due to global warming you can now go on holiday close by, says Halina: “You can now really go on holiday in the Netherlands, because if you have water, you know. I mean: I think that’s a good thing in any case… Apart from the fact that it’s terrible, that it is so. But within those nasty circumstances you can really go on holiday in the Netherlands.”
‘Really not possible’
Yes, it is now a better place to live in the Netherlands than in places further south, according to Carice. “Certainly. In fact, that’s even better right now. I think: you can’t go south anymore unless you really like being in 42 degrees. But I don’t believe that… Especially with children, that is simply not possible.”
Before the summer, Carice was also concerned about the temperatures in her own country. She feared she would not be able to order a bouncy castle for her son’s birthday: “I just think that the summer will be extremely hot and how I should tell him that it might be too hot for a bouncy castle in the garden.”
Fortunately, the heat in our own country was not too bad in the end.
Hamptons
Halina is less concerned about all that. She does go on holiday, namely to The Hamptons. “That’s of course the fancy place in Upstate New York, and Shelter Island, which is an island in The Hamptons, so I’m going to try to go there a little bit every now and then, just so I can have a change of scenery.”
Sensible, Carice thinks. “Yes, you should, I think.”