ET; EW.com will have a deep-dive recap and post-episode interview with showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First, how would you describe Bernards role?
What excited you the most about this project?
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After reading the script, that was pretty much all I needed.
I was struck by was the premise, but also the language and the calculus behind the storytelling.
Did you have any feelings about the 1973Westworldfilm?
The film is fantastic, and poses a lot of interesting questions, and its great fun.
Its a brilliant premise, as expected from Michael Crichton.
So it has something of a cult following.
But I think in many respects, the premise was ahead of its time.
The technology that he was imagining was [so far in the future] relative to now.
The performances in that film are wonderful, obviously Yul Brynner.
How do I say this diplomatically?
The film was obviously limited by the [special effects] technology and just way ahead of its time.
That adds a nice history to the new show, reflecting our own cinematic history in the new series.
Thats a very good way of describing it.
Were siting atop the history of the park and the cinematic history of its storytelling too.
There were some production delays along the way that got some headlines.
How did that impact the cast?
We were frustrated about the time it took.
We want the audience to be as tripped out watching this as we were making it.
Its going to be a good times for them.
When we were receiving each weeks script it was like a psychadelic birthday cake to all of us.
Youre working with Anthony Hopkins, hes kind of a legend whats that like?
So you show up on set with Anthony Hopkins, and hes your morning triple espresso.
Any actor who has an over-inflated sense of their talent needs to spend a morning working with him.
He makes art out of this stuff.
Hes like what we all hope to be.
Shes the lead protagonist inside the park, and Bernard is mainly driving the action behind the scenes.
Bernards essentially running the Westworld-tech side of the show.
Hes got big responsibilities.
And Bernard is the character who is most involved in all three of those worlds.
Can you tease how your character evolves his season?
Thats really what hes onto and how he evolves.
