Fails the Bechdel test

Project Hail Mary

Name: Project Hail Mary
Released: 2026

2026. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, written by Drew Goddard and Andy Weir.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

2 / 3

Fails

Yes 1. At least two women
12 women characters. 5 of them speak.
Yes 2. Who talk to each other
Women do talk to each other.
No 3. About something besides a man
Every conversation between women that our parser found mentions a man.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.

The film

Middle school science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light-years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: to solve the riddle of the mysterious substance that is causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction... but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

Released: 20 Mar 2026
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Rated: PG-13
IMDb: 8.2 / 10
Metascore: 77 / 100
Awards: 10 wins & 10 nominations total
Elsewhere: View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

Women
Men
Not in the cast list
Bigger name, more lines

Grace 531 lines, man
Rocky 187 lines, man
Stratt 107 lines, woman
Voice 27 lines
Dimitri 10 lines
Yao 10 lines, man
Voigt 6 lines, man
Ilyukhina 5 lines, woman
Onscreen 5 lines
Xi 5 lines

Full cast, 28 people

Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace
Sandra Hüller as Eva Stratt
James Ortiz as Rocky (voice)
Lionel Boyce as Carl
Milana Vayntrub as Olesya Ilyukhina
Ken Leung as Yao
Priya Kansara as Mary (voice)
Mia Soteriou as Dr. Browne
Annelle Olaleye as Olivia
Maya Eva Hosein as Rekha
Bastian Antonio Fuentes as Parker
Alice Brittain as Hardware Store Cashier
Michael Akinsulire as Air Force Officer
Travis Jay as Tilt-A-Whirl
Geoffrey Lumb as Aircraft Carrier Officer
Paul Lambert as Dr. Scyther
Orion Lee as Dr. Li
Aaron Neil as Narender
Michelle Greenidge as Chimamanda
Bernhard Schütz as Voigt
Amira Ghazalla as Dr. Lokken
Malachi Kirby as DuBois
Liz Kingsman as Shapiro
Piotr Baumann as Piotr
Eunice Huthart as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
Damien de Froberville as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
Ray Porter as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)
Meryl Streep as Rejected Rocky Voice (voice)

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 4 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 10% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 171

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Show the numbers

Scenes	Women's lines	Men's lines
1 to 4	3	7
5 to 8	0	28
9 to 12	31	27
13 to 16	0	4
17 to 20	0	5
21 to 24	4	13
25 to 28	17	20
29 to 32	14	8
33 to 36	0	17
37 to 40	0	0
41 to 44	0	1
45 to 48	0	4
49 to 52	0	0
53 to 56	0	24
57 to 60	0	15
61 to 64	0	13
65 to 68	0	7
69 to 72	18	51
73 to 76	0	23
77 to 80	0	63
81 to 84	0	38
85 to 88	0	3
89 to 92	0	14
93 to 96	0	77
97 to 100	0	49
101 to 104	8	27
105 to 108	0	2
109 to 112	0	16
113 to 116	0	8
117 to 120	0	14
121 to 124	0	25
125 to 128	14	18
129 to 132	0	10
133 to 136	0	10
137 to 140	0	7
141 to 144	0	18
145 to 148	11	36
149 to 152	0	0
153 to 156	0	7
157 to 160	0	7
161 to 164	0	0
165 to 168	0	10
169 to 171	0	22

The evidence

Straight from the script
Counted from the script and the credits

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Exhibit A: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 14 are women's.

120 lines from women, 748 from men.

Women
Men

Exhibit B: who's in it

12 women and 15 men in the cast. 5 women and 6 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

Women
Men

Exhibit C: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 11 of 963. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 300 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

First line by a woman
Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 19% of the words (1,609), men 81% (6,905). Women have 14% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.

Exhibit D: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Two women

Two men

Exhibit E: behind the camera

4 of the 19 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 25% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by: Phil Lord (man), Christopher Miller (man)
Written by: Drew Goddard (man)
From the novel by: Andy Weir (man)
Produced by: Rachel O'Connor (woman), Ryan Gosling (man), Phil Lord (man), Andy Weir (man), Aditya Sood (man), Christopher Miller (man) and 1 more
Shot by: Greig Fraser (man)
Edited by: Joel Negron (man)
Music by: Daniel Pemberton (man)
Production design by: Charles Wood (man)
Costumes by: David Crossman (man), Glyn Dillon (man)
Cast by: Jeanne McCarthy (woman), Nicole Abellera Hallman (woman)