Showtime series seeks to remake a 1976
classic that starred the late David Bowie.
It's called the man who fell to Earth now.
This adaptation takes place 40 to
45 years after the original movie,
and it has an international,
diverse and award-winning cast.
Here's just part of the plot.
It's about a new alien character who
arrives on Earth at a turning point in
human evolution and now must confront
his own past to determine our future.
We're going to bring in the expert.
Discuss this with with us.
It's the man who fell to Earth himself,
Oscar and Golden Globe nominated
actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Welcome to great day, Washington.
How have you been
very well, very well,
great to be here. Thank you.
Thank you for joining us.
We mentioned the 1976 film for
People who are big fans of that film.
What will they expect going in as they
know so much about this movie already?
What can they expect from the series?
It's a continuation
in a way from from the film the
76 film and the and the book.
It sort of starts.
It takes place 45 years afterwards,
so you know a sequel of sorts
and and we pick up the story.
The character that David Bowie played,
Thomas Jerome Newton is in this world
as well, and played by Bill Nye.
And so he is the first alien and then my
character Faraday comes from the same planet.
And the the his his first task is to
try and find this very very brilliant
scientist played by Naomi Harris,
Justin Falls.
And then he's trying to save his planet,
save Anthea from total destruction
and along the way of trying
to save Earth as well.
Wow,
she would tell you have played so many deep,
interesting characters.
I feel like you've covered a wide range.
What was it like to be an alien?
What was that like a process like to?
I know you really like to
get into your characters.
What was that studying
like? Yeah, it was fascinating.
You know you can only in the end
you can only really play your own alien.
But you can you know it's
the only one you really know,
and so you kind of end up having to
figure out the times when you yourself
have felt slightly alien that you're
kind of on the outside looking in,
and you know, we've all had those
kinds of experiences, you know,
and some of them quite profound and broad.
Some of them sort of nuanced and detailed,
but we're all.
We all have those experiences,
even if it's our first day at school.
We have those experiences, and so for me,
it was a question of really mining.
That for me,
you know where in my life I felt
a little bit of this kind of fish
out of water syndrome and playing
and playing Faraday with that.
With that energy,
I love how much you brought
David Bowie back into it as well
as each episodes like titled
after one of his songs right?
Who thought of that great
idea? Well that I'd have
to give credit to Alex
Guzman and Jenny Lumet who Co wrote and Co.
Showrunners of the project,
and Alex directed, you know,
a number of the episodes.
They're very brilliantly,
and so you know,
we always wanted to really center.
I think David Bowie's legacy in
this such an iconic figure and
and in this role you know which
is one of his first screen roles.
He just created such an
extraordinary character,
and I remember watching it and not
being able to kind of rip my eyes away
from from the performance he gave,
which was which was phenomenal.
So it was an excellent sort of
Launchpad to try to expand this this.
This story,
and to expand the kind of this
world of these characters.
Well, whenever I get ready for an interview,
I always go look at your social
media to ask you a few questions
about what you've been up to.
I couldn't find your social
media and I went through many
of your interviews and said,
oh, that's why do you still
not have social media?
And what's that life that
wonderful life like?
That's me being an alien again.
You know, we, I don't. I never.
I maybe one of those few people. I just never
jumped into all of it.
You know, I always like
to keep things a tiny bit privatized, suppose
and just just different sides of my life.
You know, reserved for myself and
close knit people alone, really.
So it never totally appealed to me.
That world actually
doing my deep dive that I watched
so many of your interviews.
I found out you lived on a house.
Do you still live on a houseboat?
You said you did for at least a period
of time there, right? In like 20,
that's true. Yeah,
I still have a houseboat, I don't.
I don't live there permanently anymore.
You know I did.
For for a for a little bit of time.
It's very interesting living.
You know, it's a great way to live.
I did it for for probably about about a year,
sort of solidly and then and now it's
it's pretty much sort of recreational
having the house but but the,
but it was. It's it's.
It's interesting.
It's tough. It's minimal.
You know it's a minimalist,
kind of way of of of living,
and that can be quite well.
It can be quite good in the world
that we live in the kind of fast.
Taste world we live in.
It's it was nice to kind
of slow down for a while,
but I did miss some of the creature comforts.
I have to confess.
Well, I'm sure I feel like you
have such a fascinating life.
I also have to tell you our
production assistant, standing
right here says she is a huge fan.
She wants to tell you hello and thank
you for all of your great work. She says
thank you, thank you and thank you
for joining us today Tuitele we
appreciate it pleasure. Thank you
absolutely OK.
You've got to go check it out.
It is the man who fell to Earth.
It's going to be on Showtime starting.
On Sunday, go check it out.