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Does your spring TV show need an affable-seeming super-scientist who might just be working a second angle?
Alison Pill is here to help.
Oh, and she has straight hair.
I dont know that anyone else is gonna take that one over this year.
What was Alex Garlands pitch to you onDevs?
[To her daughter] Can you work on your cutting and your gluing?
Sorry, my daughters home sick from school today!
to get a sense of what Katie is like.
They come up in later episodes.
I will never understand most of these concepts.
But I read David Foster Wallacesbook on infinity, which is excellent.
I readA Briefer History of Time, just to sit with these concepts that are so seemingly irrational.
Katie has been thinking about things on that level for so many years.
Her downtime is just,What is the nature of the universe?
Im like, Alex,Alex!Infinity!
The physics of the observer!
The electron changes if you observe it!
What was it like figuring that out?Terrible.
I hate that man!
No, hes the best human.
We all deeply loved and admired each other on that set.
We all drank the Kool-Aid.
Its such a gift to have that when youre going to these crazy places.
[Pills daughter briefly interrupts again after finishing anOctonautsepisode.]
Then in May, I got a call about possibly doingStar Trekand I was like, Heck yeah!
Patrick Stewarts coming back?
And the team they put together, [showrunner] Michael Chabons one of my favorite novelists.
If I just get to talk aboutKavalier & ClayandThe Yiddish Policemens Union, Ill be set.
From what Ive read, you werent a massiveStar Trekfan going in.
Shes the queen of lore.
Being a kid in the early 90s, I knew all those characters.
Then just watching them again, it was like, wow, Whoopi Goldberg was amazing on that show.
It was crazy to remember how important it was.
I didnt watch every episode, but it was really helpful to go back and see it.
It was such a ballsy show for that time.
To open with Q!
?More context will be provided for Juratis decisions, as insane as they seem.
But its really interesting to play an innocent manipulated by bigger forces.
This is the first time inStar Trekthat weve really seen a questioning of Starfleet.
It feels like thats happening all over the world, where we just dont feel like Starfleet is Starfleet.
Are thereStar Trekstyle acting techniques it’s crucial that you learn for the show?
Like a ship jumping to warp speed, for instance.Our chairs and the whole console will shake!
We have them on motors, its pretty crazy.
But spaceship fights are their own thing.
We really do have to choreograph them and its all your imagination.
I love pretend spaceship fights.
He choreographed that dance!
And he would do it with me.
He was also obsessed with the fact that I didthis weird eye roll.
He was like, How do you even do that?
Because Im a freak, director Bong!
Lets just make it that much weirder.
It wasnt even scripted.
I know it was in his head, but he hadnt brought it up until then.
I couldnt love that man more.
When he won those awards I was like, oh, the world is gonna be okay.
Its the year of Bong, were gonna be alright!
