00:00Now, I'm going to say this because I know you're a cool dude.
00:04I feel like this is a safe space and we can be honest with each other.
00:07OK, I mean this when I say this.
00:10Don't give me the box.
00:11Give me that box.
00:12I'm Thanos in this whole shit.
00:15I'm the most powerful in every single universe that I can find myself.
00:20I'm going to make myself the most powerful in every last single one.
00:24No judgment for me.
00:25No judgment for me, man.
00:27I might be the same with you on that for sure.
00:30I love Dark Matter from season one when I first got it.
00:33I like binge season one all the way up to like two days.
00:38OK, wow.
00:39The concept of your character, and I don't know how to word this correctly.
00:43I like you, but then I don't like you.
00:46But when the writing is in front of you, you have to split yourself between the same individuals.
00:56Ideally, like how do you balance that in a single series?
01:00Because technically you are playing four or five different versions of yourself.
01:03No, I hear you, man.
01:05I think that's a very astute observation, bro.
01:07Because the truth of the matter is I love playing polarizing characters.
01:13The moment you play a character that people are going back and forth in their soul about and they're like,
01:18oh, do I like this guy?
01:19I don't like that.
01:19You're on to something.
01:21That means the audience is still on their back foot.
01:25They're still trying to figure you out.
01:27And I think that means that we're tapping into the complexity of people, man.
01:32Think about sometimes I like myself, sometimes I don't like myself.
01:36Sometimes I'm like, damn, bro, why do you say that dumb shit, bro?
01:38Why do you say that dumb shit?
01:40You know, sometimes you're like, yeah, I'm the man.
01:41Yeah, I'm him.
01:42And you look in the mirror and you dig yourself up.
01:44So like, to me, I always like playing a character that kind of is, I mean, ultimately speaking, Leighton is
01:50me.
01:50So I should like him equally and not like him equally.
01:54I should be able to hold him accountable for some of the things that he does.
01:57And I should be able to root for him for the things where he wants to be better at himself
02:02with.
02:02And to me, that is what the whole show is wrapped around.
02:06You know, Dark Matter is just wrapped around who would you be if you had made different choices, right?
02:10I guess some would even argue it's who would you be if you had made all the right choices in
02:14life?
02:15And I think people come to find that you might not really necessarily like that version of you that made
02:21all the right choices.
02:22Or you might love that version of you so much that you start to resent who you are.
02:27It's the complicated nature of us in general.
02:30We all sit down and wonder who, man, what if I'd marry that girl or gone to that school or,
02:34you know, all the different things, you know.
02:37So, you know, I think that's just what it is.
02:41And if people are polarized on Leighton in that way, I feel like we're doing the right thing because, you
02:47know, it's not it's never that simple.
02:49You shouldn't just look at a character and go, oh, man, he's all evil or he's all good.
02:52Nobody in this world is all evil. Right. Right.
02:55So, yeah, we love the complexity of that.
02:57But did you find question marks in the different versions of you where you were like, oh, I hope I'm
03:02not that or.
03:03Right. Right. To go back to what you first said, which is, you know, am I going to help the
03:08world at large or am I just going to help my world?
03:11Like, bro, I got it. I got to go to the Jay-Z, the Jay-Z line for that one
03:16where he goes, you know, but there's much bigger issues in the world.
03:19I know. But I first had to take care of the world.
03:21I know. I know. You got to go home with that.
03:24So I say I say that to say Leighton thinks I think on a certain level, not to give too
03:28much away on the story, but I think he's really driven to change the world.
03:31I think he's really, really driven to change the world.
03:33But as the season continues, we peel back the layers on him and then we see what's really driving him.
03:41And then he has to answer that question for himself because there are things from his history, from his past,
03:45from his family that the audience is going to go, oh, whoa.
03:49So that's really what he's trying to fix.
03:53And is he is he being too naive to think he's doing it for the whole world or is he
03:59really being selfish?
04:00That's a question that audiences will get to see.
04:03And that's a question he'll have to try to answer himself over the course of the show.
04:06So, yeah, man, I think I think he's fighting that selfishness.
04:10But if he's being honest, he trying to take care of the world he knows.
