And I think that maybe just making sure that it was somebody you want to spend time with?
Because I don’t know.
You don’t want to spend that much time with grumpy people.
He’s a very gentle husband and a nice father.
But then, gradually, you see other masks on him.
And I, myself, didn’t read up until the last script.
So even while playing him, I had these fresh surprises.
So, I was discovering new facets or new aspects of Masa, and I had to play him.
And that was very difficult for me to do."
companions who help people with their day-to-day lives.
It wasn’t quite that, it wasn’t quite as organic as we filmed it.
And I thought I would have to use imagination to play against the character.
But actually, on set in real-time, Joanna was making these facial expressions… She’s irritatingly optimistic.
Suzie comes to find out she’s kind of designed for her.
But I like that she starts out being this absolute, dreadful annoyance to her.
There’s something kind of–it’s a good place to start.
We didn’t want to get into any kind of uncanny valley territory.
We wanted to draw on Japanese lines.
So it does a version of when Joanna smiles and Sunny Smiles.
When Joanna frowns, Sunny frowns."
And in real-time, you would see that happening on camera.
And so we really wanted to have the authenticity of a real robot on screen."
The themes of loneliness and isolation were important in grounding and establishing these characters and their primal needs.
It’s a hard moment to be a writer and thinking about the capacity and potential of A.I.
And yet, like things that are human created, it had a piece of us in it.
Thus, there is a potential and an optimism to it, and also a danger.
And so we’re trying to get at both sides of that same coin.
And what was so fascinating was this sort of tension between old and new.
Like, this grounded sci-fi show set in this ancient city.
But it also meant that it was feeling like the family that Suzie was losing.
There’s something childlike about those colors as well that was sort of dotted around the home."
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