#stuart wright

SW: What's the story?

NA: 2 humanoids… becomes clear quite quickly that they're aliens and they're hunting down the planet which created this sound signal, not entirely dissimilar to Voyager. It becomes clear again, as they're in transit, they may well be looking to not just explore but also to colonise. They're a telepathic society and they're selected because they're the best telepaths to do this job. Two characters: one's called Eva and one's called Cane - Eva's played by Ellie Kendrick and Cane by Rupert Graves - and in transit, what happens to Rupert's character, Cane, is his telepathic connection, his twin, she dies and he's left completely isolated. So this society which exists around telepathy so that there's not design, there's not art, there's no other forms of communication because they're constantly connected to one another, he begins to fracture from it and goes through a series of issues and changes

SW: It's like he's discovering his own free will?

NA: Free will - but also just simply he's becoming more and more human with the negative connotations of that and positive connotations of that as well. Because he's no longer part of this wonderful collective which can achieve and be and propagate itself, he begins to find conflict, he begins to find art, he begins to find creativity, because if we could constantly communicate with one another perfectly then why would we be creative?

Fascinating premise - and I can't wait to see Rupert using all his acting skills (and those big brown eyes) to full effect at the moment of isolation (though I suspect it'll slay me!)

Some other random pieces of information:

They shot it in 13 days: 10 days on set and 3 days on location!

The whole cast were very keen and did it for practically no money because "they love what they do and they love the script".