Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) plays George, an app developer who is recruited by a secret organisation \u2013 The Lazarus Project \u2013 with the ability to rewind time and finds himself tempted to use the power for his own ends.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though Groundhog Day is such a reference for our show, I\u2019ve actually never watched it,\u201d Essiedu told RadioTimes.com<\/a>. \u201c<\/span>I told them I had in my audition, so this is a scoop for you!\u201d<\/p>\n Though he described Netflix\u2019s Russian Doll as \u201cbrilliant\u201d, Essiedu suggested that The Lazarus Project sets itself apart by using its science-fiction concept to explore \u201cthe real-life anxieties and problems and desires that the characters have\u201d.<\/p> \u201cOne of the references was always Breaking Bad and the idea that you had a protagonist who you\u2019re very sympathetic with at the beginning and who essentially becomes the villain of the piece as it goes along,\u201d elaborated writer\/creator Barton (Giri\/Haji).<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all about the complexities of the characters\u2026 and never having it black-and-white.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Tom Burke (Strike) plays series antagonist Rebrov, a former member of the Lazarus Project who has turned against his former colleagues, but Essiedu insisted that Burke\u2019s character too is not an outright villain.<\/p>\n \u201cYou get an actor of the calibre of Tom Burke and he\u2019s not going to serve you just a moustache-twirling villain. He\u2019s going to show you the humanity and the realness of it\u2026 we leave it up to the audience to decide who\u2019s in the right and who\u2019s in the wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The power to rewind time allows the Lazarus Project near God-like abilities, including the capacity to undo tragic events, but Barton insists that rather than lessening the show\u2019s dramatic stakes, this twist allows the show to explore some fascinating moral ambiguities.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s about moral stakes, then, and that question of\u2026 if you do something really terrible but it gets undone, is it still a bad thing? How should we view that person? Every time a character does something that\u2019s bad or morally questionable, maybe it\u2019ll get undone, maybe it won\u2019t. Hopefully that\u2019s the question that hangs over it. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt seemed like an interesting moral conundrum which is unique to this genre. If a character murders someone, maybe that person will come back, but they\u2019ve still committed that crime, they\u2019ve still taken that bit of their soul away and that can\u2019t be undone, so it felt like the stakes are [still] high.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGeorge goes far with it, he does take it to the nth degree,\u201d Essiedu hints of his character\u2019s arc across the series. \u201c<\/span>He really goes the whole hog! But the argument he always holds is, whatever I do, if I can turn back time, it doesn\u2019t count. There\u2019s a quantum physicist somewhere who will really be able to give the objective answer on whether that\u2019s true or not, but it\u2019s enough for him to hold on to as a motivation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Also starring Anjli Mohindra (Vigil), Caroline Quentin (Men Behaving Badly) and Charly Clive (Pure), The Lazarus Project\u00a0is produced by Urban Myth Films, with Merlin\u2019s Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy involved as executive producers.<\/p>\n The Lazarus Project will be available to watch from Thursday (16th June) on Sky TV and NOW \u2013\u00a0sign up for Sky TV here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Morgan Jeffery Published: Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 12:00 am The pitch for Sky\u2019s new time-loop thriller The Lazarus Project might have you expecting a series akin to Groundhog Day or Russian Doll \u2013 but series creator Joe Barton has revealed that one of the biggest touchstones for the show was actually Breaking Bad. 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