- One of Alien: Earth‘s antagonists are not based on the tech bros as elon musk
- The actor behind the character did not seek inspiration from examples in the real world
- He let the series creator Noah Hawley’s writing make that talk
One of Alien: EarthStars have denied that specific examples of real tech-bros inspired the duplicitous character he portrays in, for example, the TV original.
In a speech with Techradar, Samuel Blenkin, who plays boy cavalier in the sci-fi horror franchise’s first TV project ever, said that he simply trusted how the character was written.
For the uninitiated: Boy Kavalier is 20-something CEO and founder of Prodigy Corporation. One of five megacorporations that essentially control the planet of the earth in Alien Universe, Prodigy is at the forefront of unlocking human immortality through its hybrid program – an experimental procedure that transmits a human child’s consciousness to an artificial adult body.
Not long after Prodigy has successfully created six hybrids, USCSS Maginot — a deep space research vessel owned by Weyland-Yutani, one of Prodigy’s rivals and Alien Franchise’s most famous multinational – goes down in Prodigy City. After discovering that Maginot transported five dangerous foreign life forms, including one of the franchise’s iconic Xenomorphs, to Weyland-Yutani, cavalis takes ownership of the potentially deadly extra-terrestrial for experimental purposes.
Anyone who has seen a Alien movie – or even one Jurassic Park One – know that playing with things you don’t fully understand is a recipe for disaster. Regardless of the consequences, the arrogant and so-called ‘boy genius’ cavalis is hell at revealing BioWapons’ secrets in Hulu and Disney+ the TV original.
If cavaliers’ self-evident and rebellious personality seems well known, you may be reminded of suspected ‘tech revolutionaries’, which, like cavales, claims that their technological advances are in the benefit of humanity despite concern for their use.
Need examples? What about the eerie valley nature of Elon Musk’s Tesla bots that some observers have compared to the Terminators of the James Cameron-made dystopian sci-fi franchise? What about artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as Chatgpt, using the Openai software that is co-created by Sam Altman? Or look at Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s all-encompassing search to make Metaverse a real thing.
For what it is worth, Blenkin rejected – or rather strongly the overdraft – the notion that one or the entire above or any other tech guru affected his portrayal of cavalry.
Nevertheless, he also indicated that projects that are bound by serial creator Noah Hawley (FargoAt Legion) is often a comment on people who have been in the public eye for the past few years, and/or the ever -changing nature of our own world. In Blenkin’s view, it is so possible that grades in the franchise’s initial TV show may be grossly influenced by certain people found right now.
“I think Noah did such a good job of painting a living character,” Blenkin told me. “Like all of Noah’s characters, they clearly have threads of the things we face today and what’s resonance right now.
“But what I love is that he [Kavalier] Have very specific manners and occupations, “Blenkin continued.”[He has] This Peter Pan occupation, he never wears shoes or socks, he has a little ball he throws around, his attention voltage is missing, and he has an obsession of childhood and childhood innocence that corresponds to that kind of genius [he is] And to see himself as a boy who never grew up.
“He is able to break rules and is not kept in the same account as adult with that kind of morality,” he added. “Everything that was written about him was so alive on the side, so I let the kind of the rest of the character wires take care of themselves.”
Alien: Earth launched with a two-episode premiere at Hulu (USA) on August 12 and Disney+ (internationally) on August 13. Before it arrives, read my review of Alien: Earth Or get the lavdown on the series our dedicated guide to Alien: Earth.
