SAMUEL BLENKIN

is Boy Kavalier, a human CEO

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Tell us about Boy Kavalier. He's a very young tech CEO of Prodigy, a company that has rapidly expanded in a number of years to rival some of the other larger corporations in our universe. He was one of those wonder boy geniuses when he was younger. I don't want to tell you too much about his backstory, it gets revealed as we go through the show and there's some pretty wild stuff from his past, but the front that he gives to the rest of the world is the classic type, really. He feels like he owns everything and everyone. In our universe the companies do genuinely run the world and own the land. I guess if you're in that position of power, it gives you a certain sense of entitlement, and I think that he wears that very clearly on his sleeve throughout the series.

What's it like being on set?

Mind-bendingly strange actually. I got a chance to walk around those sets. I don’t have much action that takes place in those sets, but just stepping on what they made inside those studios in Bangkok where we were filming - the scale was just extraordinary. It’s real attention to detail, and I love the fact that we went full in with the retro tech. It’s just such an integral part of the original film and that vibe, and we fully committed to that.

Was there a particularly exciting moment for you?

I don’t think this is giving away too much, but it’s how excited my character gets about a certain lifeform who might be more familiar to us humans who live on Earth than we think.

There's one particular character in the show who’s my favourite character who is definitely not human, but is definitely not completely an alien either.

My character develops quite a strong attachment to this particular creature. [Laughs] I won't say anything more about that, but that was a really exciting exciting part of the show for me.

What was it like working with Noah?