– He is a very interesting character: he created his own world, which truly fascinated me. He is an incredibly rich man with a very complicated past, but… I wouldn’t like to spend time with Elon Musk, so I don’t think I would like to do it with Mike Evans either – he says about his character in “The Three-Body Problem” in an interview with Gazeta.pl Jonathan Pryce. The actor also revealed to us. among others how he got the role in the series and how he prepared to play in “”. The entire conversation is in the recording below:
Jonathan Pryce has a long and truly impressive film and theater track record. Apart from such famous productions as “Game of Thrones” or “n”, it is worth remembering that he appeared, among others, as the evil Elliot Carver in “Tomorrow Never Dies” or the good-natured Governor Swann in the “” series of films. For his role in the film “Carrington” he received the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and has also been nominated for the Golden Globes. He met David Benioff and DB Weiss again on the set of the record-breakingly expensive Netflix series “The Three-Body Problem” based on the book by Chinese author Cixin Liu.
Jonathan Pryce: I’m glad I didn’t read it and didn’t know about it
The “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” trilogy has been hailed as one of the most important and successful titles in the science fiction genre in recent years. Some people are already comparing the series with such classics as “Foundation” and “Dune”, and the title was once praised by former US president Barack Obama and the author of “Game of Thrones”, George RR Martin. “A highly original book, a unique combination of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theories and cosmology, in which kings and emperors known from the history of the West and China unite in a dreamlike game world, and cops and physicists deal with global conspiracies, murders and an invasion of aliens in the real world,” the writer recommended.
However, the actor playing Mike Evans appeared in the book before filming began. He explained in detail why, in the case of his profession, familiarization with reading can be a serious mistake:
I haven’t read these books at all, Dan Weiss and DB Benioff from “Game of Thrones” simply offered me the role. Usually, when I’m working on something, I only want to implement what’s in the script. You can read too much about a character and be disappointed that you can’t translate it to the screen
I think there was enough information in the script. This text is already extremely complicated and complex, so this reading was enough for me
The series is available on Netflix from March 21. “A secret Chinese project from Mao’s time brings terrifying consequences several dozen years later. The beginning of the 21st century – after a series of suicides of outstanding physicists, the investigation leads to the mysterious online game ‘Three Bodies’, the aim of which is to save the inhabitants of a planet threatened by the gravitational influence of three suns. The world of this game However, it is not fiction…” – we read in the summary of the first volume of the trilogy.
he spared no money on production. It is estimated that the production of each episode of the series cost . This is even more than it was originally announced that Minister Jacek Sasin spent on the envelope elections in 2020. Simple calculations show that the entire season cost about $160 million, which is a remarkable amount, but still less than Amazon spent on the boring but visually stunning “Rings of Power.” The creators of the series adaptation emphasize that their production, even in terms of special effects, is the equivalent of four full-length films.
Source: Gazeta
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