- How did you not tell me before?!
(Ignacio laughing)
- Oh my god!
- I knew it! I knew it!
- What was weird about this?
- Sorry, Max's mom.
(all laugh)
- It felt wrong. It felt like...It felt so twisted.
- I talked to you yesterday!
(Max groans dramatically)
(upbeat music)
- Hello, Ignacio Serrichio here,
Don West from Lost in Space.
The cast and I,
we've been super busy,
promoting the last season Lost in Space on Netflix,
doing video conferencing.
You never know what to expect with these press junkets.
I got bored and I decided to play just a little prank on Max
and Mina, with the help of our amazing fake host Zach.
- Hi Ignacio.
- And these telepresence robots.
(Zach chuckles)
- We're going to put my poor friends
through the worst interview ever.
(upbeat music)
- Welcome to SciFi IRL.
I'm your host, Zach Broussard.
We've got the 411 on all the zeros and the ones.
And today we've got the stars of Netflix's Lost in Space.
My first guest, you're going to love him.
He's Mr. Danger Will Robinson himself.
Mr. Max Jenkins.
- Hey, hey guys,
this is crazy. (audience applauds)
I've never done anything like this before.
- A little further back, Max, a little further back,
- Okay.
- A little further back.
Can you...Yeah.
A little further back.
- Okay.
- Wait, a little further.
- Now I look- - Okay. You're off the carpet.
You need to come back forward a little bit.
- Coming forward. - Come back forward,
come back forward. (Ignacio laughs)
Stop!
A little forward.
Stop. Stop!
Stop.
To your left.
A little further.
One second, hold...
And we're good.
Lock it in.
All right. I'm sitting with Mr. Max Jenkins
from Lost in Space.
How you doing, Max?
- Hey guys!
I'm doing great. I'm glad to be here.
- Pretty cool set, right?
- Yeah. This is nuts!
This is totally nuts.
I've never done anything like this before.
- I wonder whose show has more high-tech technology,
right? (laughs)
- I think it might be you guys.
To be honest. - I hope so.
So man, tell me about your experience filming season three.
- Yeah, you know season three,
it's the final season of Lost in Space,
of our version of Lost in Space,
and you know, I kind of grew up on, grew up on that show.
So it's pretty, it's kinda mind boggling to know that,
to know that we're done.
- What's your favorite sci-fi series
other than Lost in Space?
It doesn't have to be TV, could be movies.
- That is a hard one.
I'm a Trekkie for sure.
Obviously Star Wars.
I actually got the chance
to meet Dave Filoni at the Saturn Awards.
- Okay. You're going into season three,
every season you guys go to these crazy worlds.
Is there any world that you're excited
for people to see in season three?
- There are some pretty amazing planets that we'll see.
And of course, you know, with every season comes more,
more and more mythology about robots.
- (laughs) Yes.
- We love the robots here.
I mean, this show is all about tech.
We're all, we love the robots. (laughs) Okay.
I mean, obviously. Look at you.
You're a robot right now, Max.
- My dream come true.
- That's right.
- Now, was it hard acting in a show with so much science?
- Yeah. I mean, science is always changing.
We're always discovering new things
with every new episode
that our crazy writers decided to try and create.
We had to really make sure
that what we were doing was scientifically accurate.
- Well, they didn't, they didn't try too hard.
(Ignacio laughing)
- We brought in a real consultant
who helped us make it as realistic as possible.
- I mean,
are they checking these people's credentials at all?
- I don't know, man.
- Just cause like for some like tech fans,
I feel like...I'll just talk about like the pilot,
right out of the gate,
like the Jupiter 2 lands in that water, right?
And it's freezing. It keeps freezing on Judy.
But if it was that cold,
everyone who had their masks off would also be freezing
because we're, hello, made of water. (laughs)
- Yeah. I didn't even think about that.
- [Zach] Yeah, it's just like one of those things.
- I'm not a scientist, obviously.
- I try not to let it take me out of the show,
but sometimes it's like, "All right, come on."
(both laughing)
And then you're like,
you're going and looking up all that like magnesium
from the vein,
and that couldn't exist like that in the real world.
Like it wouldn't be in the open like that.
It changes like immediately when it's open.
I mean, I don't know. I guess you can just say like-
- Maybe it's a special kind of magnesium.
Maybe it's a special kind.
- Yeah. Alien magnesium.
The science is a little... (Max laughs)
It's a little wishy-washy in the show.
I think it's so funny that we all have no idea
how computers work.
We just like, somebody made it,
and obviously it makes our life better,
and we love it,
but it's like, how do they work?
- You know, I understand the theory behind it
and I understand why it works, but Bluetooth.
- I don't trust Bluetooth. - Really?
- What is it? (Ignacio laughing)
- I mean, I couldn't tell you,
- I want to say it's magic. I know it's not magic,
but it feels like witchcraft. (laughs)
- Totally. Absolutely.
- Even down to like simple things,
for me, it's like the robot, okay,
is like super intelligent.
He's got all these skills,
but he talks like a one-year-old verbal level.
- The robot is learning to speak through Will Robinson.
And you know,
there's some stuff that will be revealed in third season
of the history of robots.
- It's just walking through the set. What?
That doesn't even make any sense.
- What's going on?
- [Crew] Standby, standby.
We're clear.
- Max, I'm very sorry.
This is weird.
I have like a little bit of a phobia about tech,
some tech stuff.
Robots really,
which is very funny, talking to you.
- Very funny. Yeah. (laughs)
- What's the machine in your home
that you are most scared of?
- Probably the blender.
I'm going to be honest.
- Sharp, very sharp.
- I'm always worried that I'm gonna,
that it's gonna just like explode if I hit it,
if I turn it up too high.
- I think what I don't, I don't,
just cause blenders aren't self blending.
Like you need to press a button to do it.
It's all this, like, you walk into a room
and a thing power's on.
I don't like that.
- I don't mind it because it saves me a bit of extra work.
- This is what's going to lead to the end.
That ease of use that you want.
Just sort of like, this is just going to,
it makes my life better.
I, whatever. I'll give them my data.
Self-driving cars.
(laughs) It's not hard to drive a car.
- Being a car guy myself,
I don't really like the self-driving cars.
- Thank you. We can meet in the middle on that.
Yeah. I don't like any, basically a robot, a machine,
should have to ask permission to do anything.
I don't like it.
I don't want to be an adult man telling a kid
what to Google,
but basically the singularity is the theory
that technology is advancing faster and faster and faster.
It's exponential at this point.
And at some point it's going to surpass human understanding
because it's going to start essentially self evolving.
I'm exhausted. (laughs)
(Max laughs)
I'm sorry.
- No, no, no, totally.
I completely get you.
- We should not trust these robots. (laughs)
- Yeah. (laughs)
- Like, like one good one doesn't make up
for all of these insane ones.
They're trying to kill you, Max.
- I can't imagine. I feel like it's a cool idea,
but I feel like, I feel like we're still in control for now.
- You think we're in control?
- I think we're in control.
- I think, personally, that we keep adding on new tech
and we think we-
Oh jeez.
Who's controlling this?
I thought it was powered down!
- Oh buddy!
Yo buddy! (laughs)
- (laughs) I knew it. I knew it.
I knew it. I knew it.
As soon as I saw it, I knew it.
From the first moment.
- Dude, what? (laughs)
- I could smell it from a mile away.
I saw it, I knew it was going to be you.
- Why?
- Cause who else on the cast would it be?
(Ignacio laughing)
- Other than me, who else would do that?
It just felt, it felt wrong.
It felt, like, it felt so twisted.
It was so awkward.
I was like, are we seriously like badmouthing the show?
Cause like, listen, I got stories.
But like... (Ignacio laughing)
- Was your mom wondering, like,
what the hell is going on? (laughs)
- Yes. My mom is back here, like, going like, "What?"
- Are you there? Were you weirded out by all this?
- Mom, come over here!
- Sorry. Max's mom.
- Nope. (Max laughing)
- Were you weirded out by all this?
- Wait, what?
- Completely. - What was weird about it?
- Utterly.
(all laugh)
Oh my god.
(Max groans dramatically)
I was like having a heart, I was like, I was like, I feel,
I feel wrong doing this.
Like I was like, this feels wrong.
And then as soon as like the third time the robot came by,
I was like, this is Ignacio.
(Zach laughs) This has to be Ignacio.
- Maximus. I'm pranking Mina next,
so shut it.
- All right. I'll I'll keep it shut.
But Ignacio, let me tell you something, man.
You told me you were going to get me some time
when I wasn't expecting it.
Same back at you, bro.
I'm coming at you hard next time.
(upbeat music)
- Welcome back to SciFi IRL. (audience applauds)
I'm your host, Zach Broussard.
And we're talking with two of the stars
of Netflix's Lost in Space.
- Hello, my name is Ignacio Serrichio.
I play Don West. (audience applauds)
- Hi, my name is Mina Sundwall (audience applauds)
and I play Penny Robinson.
- What I think we'd like
from each of you guys is to get just like directly
to your camera, just a very brief,
"You're watching SciFi IRL"
"Checkout Lost in Space season three, December 1st"
Get one of those? Okay.
We're going in two, Mina.
- You're watching Sci Fi IRL and-
(Zack buzzes)
- I'm sorry. (laughs)
- No, it's all good. It's all good.
- It's just, they're really picky.
SciFiIRL!
- SciFiIRL. - [Zach] SciFiIRL!
And whenever you're ready, three, two, and...Go
- You are watching SciFiIRL, Lost in Space...
- I didn't love it.
Just the way we said it. SciFiIRL!
And louder.
- You're watching SciFiIRL,
and Lost in Space comes out December 1st on Netflix.
- Awesome. Did we get it?
We got it.
I'm a huge fan of the show.
This is a one of those series that means a lot
to a lot of people.
Let's start with you Ignacio,
how's it feel to be part of a remake
of a classic television show?
- We definitely didn't take it lightly.
Kind of always keeping in mind, you know,
the weight that the original carried.
- Same question to you, Mina.
- Well, like Ignacio said, I mean,
we knew that we had really big shoes to fill
when we started it.
I think we kind of went down a different path for sure.
It's modernized.
But they've pulled some of the elements
that I really loved from the original,
like the hope and the love of a family.
- Yes.
It must have been pretty cool to film the show in Honolulu.
Right? That must've been nice.
- I wish... (laughs)
- What?
Where did you guys film?
- No, we filmed mostly in Vancouver,
a little bit in Alberta,
a little bit in Iceland.
- There's a lot of differences in this new version.
Both series involve essentially this ship
crashing in a mysterious place.
In the new one, the ship is called the Jupiter 2.
The old one, it's called the Oceanic flight 815.
A little different.
Obviously in the old one it's like not a new planet
like this.
The old series dealt mostly with-
It didn't really deal with science
until they introduced the Dharma Initiative
a little later on in season two.
And I feel like, at that point,
you're just like hinting at like this potential of science,
but it's more about the mystery of these unique locations.
And I feel like, really, this show is all about science.
- Yeah. A lot of it. (laughs)
- There is a lot of science, which I love as a tech guy.
I love tech.
So basically I understand
there was a lot of casting choices in the new one
that might be slightly different than the original.
Did you guys grow up watching the original series?
- I did. Yes, I did.
I watched the original.
It has an actor that I was a huge fan of.
- Which one? Hurley?
- Who?
- The actor Hurley.
- I don't know who is... I don't know who that it.
No, for me it was Guy Williams.
- I don't know who that is.
- (laughs) The guy who plays the dad.
- Yeah. Okay. The dad.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
I know the Dad. Yeah.
But I can sort of see how everyone maps out
based on the original.
Like, I can see that Ignacio's character is clearly meant
to be the Sawyer.
Like he's like the cool guy, he's got swag.
Who do you think Penny is supposed to be
from the original?
- Sorry. What do you mean? (laughs)
In terms of being from the original?
- Who, which character from the original
do you think Penny best represents?
- Penny? (laughs)
I mean, I think that the...I think penny.
- (laughs) Okay.
Why do you think that the writers of the new series
did not put in a smoke monster?
Um...
One of the biggest, I mean,
I'd say it was like the central point of the original series
was all of these cast members
dealing with the smoke monster.
What is the smoke monster?
Then it's revealed to be the man in black.
So the man in black is the smoke monster.
It was a little confusing, but if you're a fan of the show,
you just accepted it.
But I thought it was interesting
that they didn't include a smoke monster in this series.
- The original had...
Doctor Smith is like the bad, you know, like the antagonist.
I don't remember the smoke monster from season one.
- Yeah. In the original, no...
He's out there the whole time.
I know it's an old show, but the graphics looked really cool
for, I mean, what is it?
Like, I don't know, 20 years old at this point?
It looked surprisingly... - No, the original's,
the original's from the late 60s.
- I think the original is from like 2003.
- The original show is from the late 60s. (laughs)
- The show, the original
was like such a big part of my like college experience.
Like me and my friends would all get together
and just like...
It was the first like kind of community watching that I'd do
just like as an adult.
It was so cool.
- Lost in Space?
- Well, the original, Lost.
- Oh! Yeah. Right.
(Mina laughs)
- This is the remake Lost in Space?
- No.
- No, this is this,
this is based on the show from the late 60s
of the same title. (laughs)
- Yeah. You're thinking of another show. (laughs)
- It's not based on the ABC show Lost? (chuckles)
- Oh, Honolulu makes so much more sense right now!
That makes, I was like, that makes so much more sense!
Yeah.
I wondered why they would film that in Honolulu. (laughs)
- Let's pretend this never happened. (chuckles)
I think we're going to kind of wrap this up.
First of all, I just want to say thank you guys very much
for taking time out of your busy schedule
to promote the series.
Am I the worst-
I feel like-
Are these normally-
Is this going okay?
- Dude, this is...
This is fucking ridiculous.
This is ridiculous.
- What's ridiculous?
- Cause like...
Well, cause now I have to tell her
that we've been pranking her this whole time. (laughs)
(upbeat music) (Zach laughs)
- You! I was gonna say it!
Halfway through I was like, I feel like I'm being pranked!
You suck!
How did you not tell me before?!
(Ignacio laughs)
Oh my god!
- You realize how wonderful and gentle
and what a good soul she is
(Zach laughs) that she felt so bad for you.
(audience applauds) (Ignacio laughs)
- You gave me way too- - I was hoping you'd get mad!
- You gave me way too many line reads.
(Ignacio and Mina laughing)
- I'm just like, "I don't know what else to do."
- Mina, I love you. I had to.
- Oh my god!
I'm going to embarrassed for the rest of my life.
(Zach laughing)
(upbeat music)
- That might've been the worst interview ever,
but please check out Lost in Space only on Netflix
- December 1st!
- I'm going to get you, Ignacio.
I'm serious, man. I'm planning it.
- Absolutely, you should watch Lost in Space.
- Louder! - A little low.
You're coming in a little low.
(Mina and Ignacio laughing)
- You should watch Lost in Space on December 1st
only on Netflix and this is SciFiIRL!
(all laugh) (audience applauds)