- The fighting ability is pretty amazing,
and between the technology
and basically what you can physically do
intuitively and physically as an Envoy,
it feels a bit like a superpower to me.
- [Simone] Yeah.
- And definitely feels like one
when it comes to what I physically,
as an actor, have to do,
- to be able to embody that character,
which is challenging but a challenge I love.
I absolutely love being a woman of this age,
black woman of this age, who has the challenge,
as an actor to pull off physically,
what Quellcrist Falconer can do.
I love it.
- I also feel like, you know, the data coils
that Trepp has enabled her to have almost a superpower.
She can detonate bombs.
She can dismantle anything technological,
electrical, digital within her reach.
She controlled angelfire and helped to save the planet.
- Oh yeah.
- You know, I think that,
- And it hurt and-- - if that's not--
- she did it anyway. - a superpower, right.
(laughing)
If it's not a superpower, I don't know what is.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But it is beautiful to be a part of this wave,
to be a part of exposing these images globally
in a world where we are lied to
and told that these faces and these bodies,
cannot tell these stories and I think that Netflix
and Skydance - [Renee] Skydance.
- are saying that's just not true,
and I think that the fans will enjoy
seeing it like it's told.
- Ooh,
I think teleportation is pretty damn cool.
Look at Poe. He's rezzin' in and rezzin' out,
but he's an AI. I would love to
just be able to pick up and go.
I mean it's not funny,
but there are all types of things
that are growing on planes, trains,
and automobiles, that I just wanna be away from.
So if I could wind up,
if I could be in LA tonight,
without having a five hour flight,
I would take, especially you.
- Yeah.
- This woman was just flying back and forth from
Vancouver to New York.
- I was back and forth every single-
as much to see my family.
I think for Quell, maybe I would pick
the ability to control the construct.
Shall we say I can control the construct,
if you can control the construct, right,
and that's in your mind, right?
So that's a superpower that we could actually have.
- Oof (snaps in agreement)
- See what I'm saying. - Preach!
- So, I probably would choose something,
that would enable me in this world,
in this non-, you know, pretend reality,
to be able to recognize my power to control the construct.
- Ain't she brilliant, people?
- Okay, okay.
- Renée Elise Goldsberry, ladies and gentlemen.
(Laughing )
That's interesting, because, you know, I have small children,
and somebody said you should speak nicer
to your Alexa because your children think that you can,
"What time is it?" "What's the weather today?"
(Mumbles)
(Laughing)
"Play this song."
Like your children, like if you don't,
'cause to them, like to my babies,
this little speaker on the bar,
- Is not.
there might be a person in there.
You know? So, right, so like sometimes they say
"Speak nicer just so your child doesn't start
barking orders at you." see what I'm saying?
- Oh.
- Right, it's an interesting thing but,
so in the world that we currently live in today,
we are already a bit confused.
- Yeah.
- If it was more personified, if it was a
cute little R2D2 or something like that,
it would be even more confusing.
But we're already here, that's the world we already live in.
- And I am the person who is fiercely
trying to hold onto the past.
I don't use Siri, I don't interact with Alexa,
I don't have any of that.
- She don't trust none of that.
- I don't trust any of it because
I know they're all listenin'.
- I don't think I have been saying anything
interesting enough to care.
- It doesn't matter,
and so I don't interact with any of it.
There was a little R2D2 in the airport,
instead of a person being your hostess,
inviting you into a restaurant,
it was a little robot and I wanted to kick it.
(laughing)
Because that is a human being who is
not getting a job. - Not getting a job, yes.
- And I do not wanna go forward into that
dark, dark future of people just not being useful.
- I know, and missing,
- And what will then happen?
- and missing that connection. - Connection
- I know who you pickin'.
- You do? Who would I pick?
- I thought I did. I know who I'm picking.
Beyoncé! I'm picking Beyoncé.
It's Beyoncé; all day, everyday.
(laughing)
If I could get her wallet,
to go with the body and the sleeve,
the voice, the pow pow pow, all of it.
I'm picking Beyoncé.
- Okay, alright.
I'll pick her with you girl, but I might,
you ain't a sloppy second.
Have you seen some of Simone's music lately?
- You gonna make me choke. (laughing)
- You know what I'm saying.
She's killing it, she's killing the game.
She's on, she's holding it down with the,
she got a gavel and a data coil.
(laughing)
- That's my Halloween costume, I'll have half a face.
(mumbles) (laughing)
- I'm like can I be you in my next sleeve, Simone Missick?
- Can I just say,
you just made me flashback
to being in that forest screaming.
(laughing)
I am trying to help control the angelfire and she is going
through a convulsion. - (screaming)
- We're both just screaming at the top of our lungs.
(laughing)
You'll see it.
(laughing)
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Season Two. - Season Two.