Joel Edgerton & Jennifer Connelly on Exploring Life Choices, Regrets & Second Chances in Sci-Fi Thriller 'Dark Matter' | THR Emmys Lounge - video Dailymotion

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Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, stars of the Apple TV+ series 'Dark Matter,' along with creator and showrunner Blake Crouch, stop by THR's Emmys Lounge to dive into the questions posed by the story, including what is happiness and the road not taken. Edgerton, who also serves as an executive producer on the show, breaks down playing different versions of one man and what those lives looks like.

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00:00He has access to other realities and he stole me from my world so that he could

00:06take my life. Do you know how that sounds? The idea of being amongst the science

00:10fiction premise that really was making something even more human in terms of

00:16these questions of no relationship with our choices in the past and our

00:20intention for ourselves and the road not taken and regret and remorse and all

00:25these things. It felt so human and yet there's this conceit there. I like that

00:29it was asking sort of everyday questions that a lot of people ask themselves I

00:33think about what am I doing with my life and do I like what I'm doing with my

00:37life? Do I like who I'm doing my life with? You know but it's doing it in this

00:42spectacular sci-fi kind of way and I really I really liked that about it. The

00:48show is sort of like to get a chance to get a do-over because I kind of felt in

00:52the years right after the book that I was like kind of missed that opportunity to

00:57write this like Hitchcockian suspense. So Blake 2 wrote the show, Blake 1 wrote the book.

01:02The Jason 2 thing is interesting because in the book Jason 2 we really only

01:06meet him in the beginning and at the end he doesn't have this big arc and so

01:11he's a little more villainous in the book and it's a very interesting

01:14conversation we had like I really want to get under his skin and not make him

01:18this bad guy. Part of the dilemma of one of my characters of Jason 1 as we call him is

01:25is realizing by having something taken away how much you really really did hold

01:31it dear. There's a difference between how Daniela presents and how she feels. I

01:37think she's someone who has centered her life around her family to her marriage to

01:42her son. There's sort of a flip side to it which is you know her fears and

01:46insecurities. I think of her as someone who's like kind of really about love and

01:51she gets she gets taken away from it. It was kind of fun the bits where they

01:56were unraveling and kind of getting at each other a little bit. I always love

02:00that too because no matter how different Jason 2 is in those moments or how much

02:06he forgets about the history of the family you would never look at your own

02:11partner and go okay you've been swapped from another dimension. Yeah. You have to go

02:17am I crazy? Are you falling out of love with me? I don't need psychiatric help. I just need answers.

02:26I know. You think that I have lost my mind. Yes, I'm sleeping. You know getting back to this whole

02:34question of what you lose and what you want back is it is very possible to

02:39realize that the life you think you're not happy with is actually the exact life you

02:45need to have and find a way to be happy with it or see what's happy about it.

Joel Edgerton & Jennifer Connelly on Exploring Life Choices, Regrets & Second Chances in Sci-Fi Thriller 'Dark Matter' | THR Emmys Lounge

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