“And for that sin, Charlie Brooker had to destroy” them, Hartnett says.
It all sounds like a grand adventure, right?
That’s certainly what the characters thought when they took on this mission.
Josh Hartnett in ‘Black Mirror’ season 6.Nick Wall/Netflix
“And for that sin, Charlie Brooker had to destroy him.”
Colonizing the moon, or even Mars, that sort of thing didn’t seem like a distant possibility.
In our reality, this was the time of the Gemini space program and people going to the moon.
Aaron Paul in ‘Black Mirror’ season 6.Nick Wall/Netflix
It was all happening!
But this isBlack Mirror, so everything goes very, very pear-shaped after that."
So he decides to let David take turns inhabiting his own robot body.
“She really just wants her husband back, or at least present.
She’s lonely and searching for connection in some way.
David gives that to her.
He’s just much more present and attentive; she feels seen when he’s around.”
“Luckily, we had some rehearsal time with our director,” Mara says.
“It was a lot of talking about all of the scenes.
Hartnett adds, “Aaron was in our rehearsals and we were able to discuss some of these things.
“Beyond the Sea” has a very dark ending, even byBlack Mirrorstandards.
“I don’t get to decide what he ends up doing.
That’s what he does, and now I gotta figure out why.
Those were the three things.”
Hartnett continues, “he doesn’t expect to feel anything again.
He wants to kill himself, clearly.
But then it’s taken away.
That is the only way that we can actually connect.'
I think that’s what he does.”
Mercifully, we do not actually see Lana’s body.
“I was relieved,” Mara says.
“But I also think that it can be just as haunting to not see anything.
It’s much more interesting to have to use your imagination a little bit there.”
Black Mirrorseason 6 is streaming now on Netflix.
