It’s not only that the ominous, vastly technologically superior and singularly ill-disposed Alien race seem bent on total human annihilation and domination of our home planet. What’s particularly distressing to the Americans is that they insist on timing their vicious attacks to coincide with the 4^th of July. Well, as they say in this galaxy, you reap what you sow. In 1996’s Independence Day by Roland Emmerich, a ragtag but relentlessly resourceful band of Earth-patriots mounted a last ditch resistance in the Nevada desert  (finally justifying years-long federal funding of Area 51). In Emmerich’s Independence Day: Resurgence twenty years have passed and a new generation has to confront a second invasion. The film features select cast from the original film (Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsh) and a fresh batch of valiant fighters (as well as twenty years worth of advances in digital effects). We spoke to Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games) and Maika Monroe (It Follows, The 5th Wave) about the nitty-gritty of saving the planet.