David Harbour dances with penguins for an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary
Stranger Things actor David Harboury gets his groove on with penguins after Twitter challenge with Greenpeace.
“Protect the Antarctic. Thank you Greenpeace. Thank you internet. I’ve never had so much fun being humiliated.” – David Harbour
Harbour has fulfilled his promise to the internet to dance with penguins in the Antarctic, following a Twitter challenge with Greenpeace which went viral, gaining over 200,000 retweets in just five hours. Greenpeace this week released video footage of Harbour dancing with the ‘guins.
Shimmying Hopper danced with nonplussed Gentoo penguins on a remote colony in the Antarctic Peninsula as the performer joined a Greenpeace expedition which is in the Antarctic for three months conducting scientific research and campaigning for the creation of a vast Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary to protect penguins, whales and seals. At 1.8 million square kilometres, five times the size of Germany, it would be the biggest protected area on Earth.
Boarding in Punta Arenas in Chile, Harbour braved a four-day transit across the notoriously rough Drake Passage, alongside Greenpeace’s first Antarctic Ambassador, singer and actor Alison Sudol, of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The expedition has already seen the first submarine dives to a part of the Antarctic seafloor never previously visited by humans, to study rare and vulnerable species, as well as hosting Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem who went down in the submarine himself to see the abundance of wildlife.
“When I first got on this trip I didn’t really care that much about it. It was kind of a joke to me. And the more I’m here the more I understand and sense and feel the majesty and the primal-ness of a place like this, that should be protected and kept pristine, so that it can ripple through to the rest of the world. It would be a shame if industry came in here and tapped it of its resources. I think there are places in the world that are meant to be left untouched, that can help in things like climate change and can help keep the world in balance.” – David Harbour