00:00Star City doesn't just feel like just for all my kind season one, but from the other side.
00:05It's something else. It's something completely different.
00:08So how did you take that different approach and what are the main differences for you?
00:14You know, it was something that we were very conscious of from the beginning
00:17because just on a creative level as writers,
00:21it's boring to us to tell the same story from another side and just to track along with it.
00:26And I think for audience as well and for everyone involved,
00:28it would be you want to have that unique feeling of doing something new and breaking new ground.
00:34And so for us, we wouldn't have done that version of it.
00:39You know, we felt compelled to make it as different as possible.
00:42And also because I think that the alternate universe of this, you know, bigger, better space race,
00:52it has so much potential of so many different types of stories within it
00:57that it really is about showing the possibilities of what this can be.
01:05That's great.
01:06I would like to ask you also about, because we have already known always about the U.S. space program
01:12from that time,
01:14but we don't really know about the Soviet one.
01:16So I would like to know, how did you guys document it yourselves in order to write this story?
01:21We actually snuck into the Soviet Union, Matt and I.
01:24And no, I'm kidding.
01:25I wish.
01:26It was very difficult, actually.
01:28It was one of the, you know, in the American program is, I mean, there's endless documentaries, movies, research.
01:33It was almost too much.
01:35We had to fight to, how do we make this feel refreshing?
01:39This was incredibly secretive.
01:42I mean, they were secretive about everything.
01:43Even the idea of Star City itself, the city in which they base everything,
01:47was hidden an hour outside of Moscow in the middle of the woods.
01:51So finding research on this was really difficult.
01:54But I think also allowed us to kind of create the show in a way that a lot of what
02:00people are going to see in the show,
02:01they'll probably imagine is made up and fictionalized.
02:04I assure you, most of it is not.
02:06Like, it is based on stories, characters that we read about, heard about, learned about.
02:12And it's one of the reasons we wanted to make this show.
02:15Because the more we learned, the more we felt this is a story that needs to be told about a
02:19time and a place
02:20that honestly, there's hardly anything about it out there right now.
02:24But that's so mind-blowing, some things that happen here.
02:29Nowadays, with all the Artemis mission, et cetera, I think we have seen a rise in the interest of space
02:34programs, et cetera.
02:36So do you guys feel like, after all this time developing this series,
02:41we could leave another space race or something like that in the near future?
02:47We're in it now, man.
02:48And, you know, the reason that the Americans sent Artemis II to the moon, I mean, one of the main
02:55reasons is that now the Chinese space program is ascendant,
02:59and they're planning a lunar base.
03:00So now we've got to plan a lunar base.
03:02And that's kind of one of the fascinating things about, you know, what we base this show on is this
03:09idea that through this kind of cynical geopolitical struggle for dominance leads to this idealistic, you know, progressive advancement of
03:21humankind.
03:21And those two things together, it really encapsulates the tone of these shows.
03:29I would like to know now, Mr. Evans, about your character, because you play a character with no name, actually,
03:35as chief designer.
03:36How has it been for you to play such a crucial character for the story without an identity?
03:43Yeah, well, in the same way that Star City didn't exist, the chief designer doesn't exist, you know, and there
03:52is within that, you know, a kind of agony for him,
03:57because in any other iteration, he would be a national hero and loved and lauded by the population, you know.
04:07So I'm certain that, you know, he feels that, but there is a humility to him also, which I wanted
04:17to really kind of excavate, you know,
04:20and that kind of pairs down his real passion, you know, and his real passion is engineering and science and
04:28getting human beings into space, you know.
04:32And I think that's always been his kind of dream, and he's having to enact that dream in an environment
04:41and within a system that's as asphyxiative as space itself.
04:49He's a fascinating man. I have one minute left, so I now have to ask you, any news about a
04:55potential season two, even beyond, because we know this is a different show?
05:00No, no news yet. You know, I think we're hopeful. We, you know, we built the show with the idea,
05:06every show, every season for All Mankind, that you can watch any season as a full story.
05:11But our hope, of course, is we can continue to tell this story. I think there's so much richness in
05:17this world and in these characters.
05:19And honestly, the more we've worked on this, the more we heard about more stories from the future.
05:25So I feel like there is something here that really is wonderful and dramatic, and hopefully we get to continue
05:30to tell it.
05:31Season two will be a musical.
05:36Please.
05:38Finger crossed.
05:39Finger crossed.
05:39¡Gracias!
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