Base The third season begins today, which leads to spectators 152 years beyond the second season. Empire is still in power, but his understanding of the galaxy has weakened considerably. As for the ruling clones of Cleon, the day of the brother (Lee Pace) has ignored his official duties in favor of a lifestyle full of pleasure, leaving Brother Dawn (Cassian Biltton), who is on the edge of the aging of the throne of the brother of the brother day, and the brother Dusk (Terrence Mann), who faces his permanent retirement that is quickly approaching, is responsible for his place.
In the midst of all this personal agitation, the Empire Robots advisor, Demerzel (Laura Birn), informs the Cleons that a major problem is at hand: while for a long time they have been aware of the fall of his reign, that time is now much closer than they realized. In addition, there is the small issue of a possible day of the final judgment on the horizon, threatening not only the control of humanity not only of the empire, but also the existence of humanity itself.
On a press day before BaseThe return, Io9 spoke with Bilton and Mann about what Brother Dawn and Brother Dusk face in the exciting third season of the program.
Cheryl Eddy, IO9: The third season highlights perhaps the most distinctive Cleons we have met so far. As artists, how do you approach the different versions? Do you start from the same place and build nuances from there?
Terrence Mann: Cassian met this metaphor that is so adequate, and is very perfect, and would like to have known it five years ago when we started.
Cassian Biltton: I’m sure he has promoted this too much now [laughs]. But [my approach to the] The character is essentially [that] Playing Cleon for a prolonged period, but returning every time to play different iterations of it, is a bit like getting to a season and immerse a brush in the same paint boat, but using a different movement on the canvas and ending with something different. Ultimately, you are working with the same raw material, but you are in a different circumstance. And really what we do as actors is the confidence that we have that knowledge of Cleon the first behind us, and then, basically, they are our writers who really put us in circumstances that differ every season, and this is how these different expressions of Cleon the first come out.
IO9: Brother Dusk has a powerful arch in the third season. He faces at the end, but he is not in silence. How would you describe your head space when the season begins?
Mann: I think you could literally take the template of King LearAct 1, scene 1 and go to act 5, scene 4. That seems to be its descent to madness. But it doesn’t start that way. Start with a very clear image of what the family wants to do and become, and then things simply go wrong. That is what I thought when I was reading it.
And, by the way, you know, these were page shifts. The 10 episodes, when we obtained them, we thought: “Wow, that is happening? Is that happening?” That is the beauty of what we are doing this season, certainly for Cassian and for me, is that [our characters] Start with the hope of something at the beginning, and that changes drastically at the end of episode 10. So we have a large sand box to play, and we are bouncing all the place doing that. Great Time.
IO9: The idea that clones are in this regular decantation cycle and “ascension” has been established well, but this is the first time we have really fallen into emotions around that. How was it to explore that aspect of your character?
BILTON: If I am honest, I have been waiting for this moment since I was chosen. I think it is very strange as an actor to see other actors to assume the later life of a character you are interpreting. I think my position in the program has always been a young and fragile ingenuity. Dawn is very lonely and sadly introspective in the first season, and I think he finds his feet a little more in the second season. But I’ve been sitting apart as: “Coach, let me play!” When it comes to governing the galaxy. And I feel that I managed to give a rhythm of the season and I hope to be the type of dawn that possibly, as an audience, we believe they could become the day of the brother.
Io9: Did you feel you released more this time?
BILTON: 100%, 100% could be released safely. I felt that, just to speak from a point of view of action, I could stretch and flex my muscles a little more as an actor. The writers gave me so many opportunities to jump to this season and really help boost that story. And I am really grateful to them for that opportunity because I had a great time filming it.
I think the scenes I have filmed with Terry and Lee [Pace] He landed in a really interesting place because I think the fascinating of the Cleons is to see them as individuals and see this turning point of “Well, how close can I get to the performance of this other actor?”
IO9: We don’t have a lot of scenes with the three Cleons together in the third season. But there is that cheerful moment you share in the throne room where everyone laughs together. Was it a special scene to film in the middle of a season that is otherwise full of a lot of darkness?
Mann: That was art imitating life. That was really the three sitting there because we had not worked together, I do not believe, for a week or two or maybe even more. And we have really been in different parts of studies and things. So, having that moment, and there has never been such a moment in any of the other seasons, it was very special.
BILTON: I think because the day is gone [palace life] Behind, they are able to drop the front a little. In that scene particularly, you see them all throw the front. “Okay, yes, we govern the galaxy, but yes, we are a little exhausted by it. As, how are you? How do you feel about this?”
Really something that we have mentioned a lot in our conversations about this season is that the Cleons, ultimately, are very solitary people. They live in an environment where they only interact with different iterations of themselves or a humanoid robot; They lack intimacy or kindness and closeness with other human beings in a huge way. I think that is why his relationship with Demerzel is so moving in the program, because he is the only person who shows them kindness.
I am so happy to hear that this scene [in the throne room] It resonates, because I think it is a really crucial point in the season. And it is the first time and the last time you see the three together before they shoot on their own separate self -discovery trips.
The first episode of Base The third season is now being broadcast on Apple TV+.
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