'Westworld' Spoilers: Find Out Why Its Stars Are Calling It An 'Intellectual Nightmare'
Is HBO's new show "Westworld" considered a Western series or a sci-fi series? If lead star Evan Rachel Wood, who plays robotic host Dolores Abernathy, were to be asked, it's a little bit of both. "It's science fiction, it's a Western, it's an existential drama and an intellectual nightmare," Wood told the Rolling Stone, adding, "and I've never really read or seen anything quite like this -- including the movie. And for those of us playing the hosts, it was also like the Acting Olympics: 'I need you to have a panic attack, and then I need you to be in character, and then I need you to go into computer mode, and then I need you to breathe, and then I need you to be downloading…'" Show creators Jonathan Nolan and his wife Lisa Joy really wanted to deliver something new to television. In most sci-fi movies, humans are always the protagonists, while robots or machines are trying to bring them down.
Sep-15-2016, 07:00:05 GMT
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