Dateline 2099, London: Flynne is flung into the future, her in-game avatar zipping around on a motorbike, battling killer robot chauffeurs and trying to save tomorrow\u2019s world \u2013 while also fighting off dark web assassins back in her present.<\/p>\n
Dateline 2011, New York: the last time I met Moretz, when she was promoting Martin Scorsese\u2019s Hugo alongside co-star and fellow 14-year-old Asa Butterfield. \u201cI was a little baby girl!\u201d<\/p>
You were \u2013 and a movie star. This time-travelling, mind-bending thriller is your first proper TV project since your child acting days. Why so long away, and what brought you back?<\/strong><\/p>\n I was really hesitant on being a lead in a television series. I knew from friends that it was quite an undertaking \u2013 something you have to sit with for eight months, and really care about a character to go that deep. Then this came on my radar. You hear [author] William Gibson and [producers] Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan \u2013 if you\u2019re a sci-fi fan, which I am, those are three very cool heavy-hitters.<\/p>\n This show, Nolan and Joy\u2019s Westworld, your 2021 film Mother\/Android: these are dystopian tales. Is current sci-fi so dark as a reflection of our society?<\/strong><\/p>\n This show is actually contrary to other sci-fi.\u00a0 Yes, the future to which they are travelled is pretty bleak\u2026 But depending on what they learn, they could use that information to mitigate their impending doom.<\/p>\n When you look at our politics, economy and environment, does it make you pessimistic about our future?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to not be pessimistic, especially when we envelop ourselves in the 24-hour news cycle. But I do try to be a glass-half-full kind of gal. Otherwise, it\u2019d be very hard to get out of bed in the morning.<\/p>\n Are you a gamer?<\/strong><\/p>\n I grew up gaming! I have four older brothers, and they were always bigger and stronger than me. But it was one of the ways that I could best them at every corner.<\/p>\n Given your brothers\u2019 involvement in the business of your career, was Flynne\u2019s closeness to her brother relatable?<\/strong><\/p>\n Definitely. On top of that, when Jack and I signed on, we said to the producers: \u2018We\u2019d love to get to know each other.\u2019 And our first FaceTime, we spent three hours talking about our lives\u2026 So much so that by the time we finally got to London, everyone was like: \u201cWait? Didn\u2019t you guys just meet?\u201d We were really like brother and sister from the jump.<\/p>\n What does setting the far-future storyline in London bring that setting it in, say, New York wouldn\u2019t have?<\/strong><\/p>\n There\u2019s such a massive juxtaposition between the American South and London. Also, I never hear the Southern accent against the RP British accent. And it\u2019s a real fish-out-of-water story. To see how Flynne mutates herself to fit in better \u2013 at least for the first season, I don\u2019t think that would have been as interesting if it had been localised within America still.<\/p>\n![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/PRDBS1UT102210518MUTSOP00040RC-0e7c392.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
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