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David Rysdahl sat down with Kyle Meredith to dig into FX’s Alien: Earth, the newest installment of the Alien franchise. Recognized for roles in Fargo and Oppenheimer, Rysdahl steps right into a story that makes use of sci-fi horror as a Computer virus for greater questions — AI, environmental collapse, company greed, even the messy query of whether or not humanity deserves to stay round. Pay attention above or wherever you get your podcasts.
For Rysdahl, working once more with creator Noah Hawley after Fargo meant taking part in greater than only a scientist — he was embodying a bit of Hawley himself. “I do really feel like I’m taking part in part of Noah,” he tells Meredith. “Arthur is the conscience and the guts of Alien: Earth. Wayne in Fargo was that for his household, and Arthur is that on this story. Each are idealists who’ve their religion and their world shaken.” He laughed about Hawley sending him a one-line electronic mail — “You need to come to Thailand?” — and knew proper then he was again within the deep finish.
That deep finish, after all, comes with the Alien franchise’s weight and a contemporary spin on terror. Rysdahl admitted the present made him rethink the current simply as a lot because the fictional future. “I used to be studying a lot transhumanism, Ray Kurzweil, all of that,” he says. “Did it give me solutions? No. Nevertheless it let me put my fears into a task and meditate on the warnings. Are we the monster? From lots of species’ perspective, we’re. That’s what’s so compelling in regards to the present — you’re asking these uncomfortable questions whereas one thing terrifying is respiratory down your neck.”
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