Has Noah let you in on what\u2019s in store for Arthur in season 2 at all? What are you hoping for? <\/p>\n
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We\u2019re still figuring it out. Noah\u2019s got a lot of ideas but he\u2019s always a little tight-lipped. I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about the fact that I\u2019ve never played an alien before. I\u2019ve never played something that\u2019s seen a lot of the universe but also has a sense of humor. Like the pi episode with the shit on the floor. That\u2019s funny! There\u2019s such an absurdity to this T. Ocellus that I think it\u2019d be really fun to play. I mean, there are already a lot of rules for this little creature from season one. What does it do to the brain that it\u2019s in? It uses this new lens to see the world, and Arthur\u2019s a new lens so how much of Arthur can I bring in? I\u2019m having a lot of ideas as an actor already, so we\u2019ll see how Noah wants to shape it.<\/p>\n
Your one scene in the finale obviously packs a punch but I feel like the penultimate episode is Arthur\u2019s finest hour. What was it like playing that scene with Slightly (Adarsh Gourav) and Smee (Jonathan Ajayi) in which you\u2019re very gentle with them, holding their hands and teaching them about lying, just before the chestburster moment?<\/p>\n
Noah and I talked about this idea that I\u2019m a scientist and I\u2019m a dad. And slowly through the course of the season, the dad wins out. That last scene needs to feel \u201cfull father.\u201d I\u2019m no longer seeing them as hybrids; I\u2019m seeing them as two children who I care for deeply.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve all seen what the chestburster does. So the \u201cwhat\u201d is not in question, but the \u201chow\u201d is interesting. We were like \u201cwell, what makes this chestburster moment distinct and interesting from the ones that have come before us?\u201d This is a father being chestbursted by his \u201cson\u201d to birth a new \u201cxenomorph son\u201d in a way. It was actually the simplest scene because all the science has faded, and it\u2019s just me being a father to two troubled sons.<\/p>\n
From a physical acting perspective, what is it like to be chestbursted? Did you do research into previous chestburstings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has Noah let you in on what\u2019s in store for Arthur in season 2 at all? What are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-41331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}