Cristin Milioti on possibly part 3

Spoiler warning: This story discusses important plot developments in the episode “Black Mirror” “USS Callister: Infinity”, which is currently streaming on Netflix.

Since the episode “Black Mirror” “USS Callister” streamed for the first time on Netflix in 2017, Cristin Milioti has received questions about when there would be a sequel.

The original episode is divided between the life of respectful Real-World Videogame Programmer Nanette Cole (Milioti), who works on the mass multiplayer online game “Infinity”, and a virtual reproduction of the “Star Trek” SPRABE-SPERITY DALY (JERASE ” Plemons). Robert steals the DNA of his colleagues – including Venal “Infinity” CEO James Walton (Jimmi Simpson) – to live digital, conscious clones that he forces to live in his nerd fantasy to be a captain. That is, until he copies the DNA of Nanette, and her digital clone creates a mutiny that leads to Robert’s real consciousness sliding into oblivion, while the virtual Nanette and her USS Callister sheaters go to an infinite digital border.

De mogelijkheden van dat einde veroorzaakten onmiddellijke speculatie dat de ‘Black Mirror’-maker Charlie Brooker-die “USS Callister” samen met William Bridges schreef-de eerste vervolgaflevering van de langlopende bloemlezing zou maken om de voortdurende avonturen van Nanette en haar bemanning, Elene), Nate), Nate), Nate), Nate), Nate), Nate), Nate (OSY Ikhile), nate (Osy Ihile), Nate (Osy Ihile), Nate (Osy Ihile), would make. Brooks) and Kabir (Paul G. Raymond).

That speculation became reality in 2019, when Milioti says she started talking with Brooker about what a sequel to a “USS Callister” could look like. “It went on – this is not an exaggeration – like 500 iterations,” says Milioti Variety. “How would we all come back to the same room? Should it be a series? He really explored every avenue. At one point I had so many different versions that knock in my brain. It would then fall apart and come together and fall apart. It was a real journey.”

More than seven years later, the end result, “USS Callister: in Infinity”, as the keystone to the seventh season of “Black Mirror”, written by Brooker, Bridges, BISHA K. Ali (“Ms. Marvel”) and Bekka Bowling (“Solos”); Toby Haynes (“Andor”) returns to Direct. A few months after the events of the first episode, we learn that life on the digital USS callister is grim: Nanette and her crew are forced to shake the avatars of real players for “Infinity” credits so that they can scrape enough money for in-game purchases of ammo, fuel and food. Because the Callister does not have gamertags, players are starting to flood “infinity” message signs with complaints about scammed, which causes a series of events that result in the real Nanette who not only learns for the first time about the existence of her digital counterpart, but to meet her within the game.

The meeting is unfortunately short -lived: in the real world, Nanette is accidentally mowed by a car, just like James, her boss, begs not to expose his play that contains extremely illegal digital clones. With a panic racing by James Racing to save his ass by erosing the callister and his crew, Digital Nanette brings the callister to the heart of ‘Infinity’, where a secret digital clone of Robert has created years of new worlds for players for players to explore. After Nanette has argued her business to Robert, he agrees to save the callister – but only after he has made it another Nanette copy to be his permanent companion in the center of the game. To save itself from a life of submission, Nanette kills the virtual Robert, causing the total collapse of “infinity” – but not before Robert’s program sends back the digital consciousness of Nanette to her comatose human body.

There is of course a turn: the rest of the callister crew is Also Integrated in the brain of the real Nanette, making them passive spectators in her life. Milioti spoke Variety About the implications of that end, what it was like to act with themselves – and the “sick” part of making “in infinite” that she liked the most.

When did you know for the first time that there was even a possibility that a continuation had actually happened?

Well, the last five years really melts together, right? Charlie and I have always talked about it. I would end up in London in the years after we made it, and we would always eat, and he would mention that he wanted to return to it. But I think the first time there was a concrete conversation in 2019.

How were those early conversations where the story could go? In early interviews you talked about the possibility that Nanette from practice would be investigated for the murder of Robert.

I am almost certain that it was at some point, and then I think it was just left because it might be too much.

What other possible threads did you look at?

I think there were several clones of everyone, four or five of each person – such as, it got out of hand. I remember getting a real kick from it, although I am sure that it would have been completely nightmare to film. Not for me, I liked it.

How much did you contribute to the development of the story and where it went?

Charlie was so open to the countless questions and thoughts that I had in terms of truly trying to find the emotional transit of how similar the two nanettes are and how different they are, and the best ways to express that. I never had anything like: “What if it is this? “It’s really his baby.

What kind of questions did you have?

The time continued to shift, as, sometimes it would be a few weeks later, sometimes it would be a year later. I think he investigated a little what the exact timeline would be. So my questions would shift based on things such as how long it is so bad in this world, and how much does she know, and how much does she suspect? While those things were changing, I just tried to get as well as I could.

What did you make where it finally landed? Because there is a reversal of expectations: the first episode ends with this feeling of hope and possibility for the callister crew, and it appears that their lives are pretty terrible.

I don’t think I had a strong opinion anyway. I just started to feel like, oh, wow, that is not like life, that wherever you are, you are there. And although I think Nanette still pulls things in the virtual world that the real world that she could literally only imagine there, she still has to deal with the same parts of existing in the world: disappointment that you are not better in your work, disappointment about the people you have to work with, wished you could think of something that is currently impossible. I found that interesting.

How did you distinguish your performance between virtual nanette and real world Nanette?

Part of it is physical. Their postures are different. But I also wanted to be subtle, their lives are so unimaginably different, but that has not been That a lot of time. The virtual nanette is extremely smart and cunning, but she is still in these shameful circumstances that she had never thought she would be. So although she is certainly at the office of the office for the office in terms of trust and have to be ready for unimaginable circumstances at any time, they are still comparable. When they finally meet, I found interesting the ways in which one admires the other and the other seems disappointed, what I think what happens when you listen to a recording of your own voice, or you see a video of yourself, and you are like: “That is What is?! ”

Did you ever act with yourself before?

Yes, I have, in season 2 of [the Max series] “Made for Love”, who rot somewhere in a safe, to my annoyance. I don’t know why they won’t post it somewhere. So I have acted with myself before. It’s really crazy.

How is that process? Did you prefer how you wanted to tackle it?

It is so technical that I found equal parts fascinating and annoying. We have worked with a very special type of camera for those scenes, and you have to physically match what you did as the other person, so your brain is called at the end of the day. It feels like a modem that needs to be put on ice. One of the things that I love the most of the actor is interaction with other actors and seeing where that leads us to. Doing that with a memory of what you did a few hours ago is really strange. It is a very different skill, such as people who have to act a lot with a green screen.

Nanette kills the virtual Robert Daly with his own ceremonial knife through his skull. Did it feel that you had taken the character around the circle after Robert had tormented her so much in the first episode?

I enjoyed shooting that. It also touched what the first did: you can feel a deep source of empathy for someone, and that cannot approve their actions. I think your heart breaks for him in this episode. It is such a metaphor for capitalism, the way he has been convicted of simply making content forever, and how that ensures that someone goes crazy. It’s never enough. He thinks he deserves to have a companion and, I don’t know, reading that scene, I was so deeply sad. Of course we all earn that, and yet to do that to someone’s will – it’s what happened in the first episode. It is very kind of meta, like, oh my god, here we go again.

I screamed when the real Nanette was hit by a car. What did you think about it?

I thought it was great, but I am a bit of a disease with things like that. That was also a complicated stunt and camera treatment, so we kept watching [playback] To ensure that this had worked. Usually I can’t see myself. I can’t get close to a monitor. I can’t hear the playing of my own voice. It only makes me a full body shrinking. But I was able to look back on that. It moved me and made me laugh. I don’t know if it has to make you laugh, but it is so unexpected and moving.

Finally, the end leaves an persistent question open about what will happen to the Callister crew now that they are stuck in the brain of Nanette. Do you think some 3 is possible?

Well, it depends on it. Is this a form that she can stay in a strange, twisted way forever? Does this start to turn her into someone she doesn’t want to be, where she has control over who is in her head and is never completely alone and is able to keep power in one way or another? It doesn’t seem like she works so hard to get them away there.

Would you do part 3?

We didn’t talk about it, but I trust Charlie’s brain. If he thinks there is another possibility, I would like to talk to him about it.

This interview has been edited and condensed.