Welcome to the world premiere of Legion.
David, can you hear me?
We have you now, you're safe.
Welcome to Division III.
Based on the Marvel comic, this series
follows a man who believed himself to be schizophrenic,
only to discover that he may actually be the most powerful
mutant the world has ever seen.
All right, David.
Let's take this for a spin.
Remember.
Keep an open mind.
Carrie.
We asked about this unique series,
and making the new season stranger
and wilder than the last.
It's a really wild trip.
And if you'll come with us, we'll
we'll take you for a fun ride.
And the second season starts in much confusion.
A lot of time has passed, but not very
much time has passed for David.
We thought you were dead.
When?
About a year.
For about--
362 days, if you're being precise.
It's like dark, moody, and a lot
about you know trusting people, and what happens when the world
goes insane around you.
You promise.
No secrets.
Well, this season is a race.
But because it's Legion not everyone is
running in the same direction.
Let's just say, it's about the journey, not the destination.
This season makes last season look like See Spot Run.
So buckle your seat belts is about what I said.
This show is just a total kind of mind--
I'm trying not to curse right now.
There's nothing that is typical about this show at all.
That's the funny thing, is you think like the second year,
we know more, and I feel like there's just more to not know.
If you're a fan of the show, that's what you sign in for,
right?
It's the experience of watching it.
The fact that you don't know from moment to moment
what's going to happen next.
I've been someplace else, and now I'm here.
We're going to find him.
The Shadow King, put a stop to all this.
Welcome back to the world premiere of the FX
original series, Legion.
What's the last thing you remember?
Dancing?
Can you tell us a little bit about the original and yet
always surprising dance sequences.
I mean I love that this show has
room for a musical interludes, dance numbers.
I really enjoy dance.
Dance has become quite a big part of what I do now.
And I think you know it's a big part of Legion,
you know the physicality, the music.
Singing in this season again.
It's fun.
In a fight there's a winner and a loser.
But in a dance battle let's say you can do many more things.
It's both a fight but it's also a little peacocking,
and it's also kind of a courtship dance.
And there's more nuance to it.
He finds all sorts of bizarre ways of sort
of explaining this story.
Especially when he needs to explain something fuzzy.
Then he'll come up with some really fun, crazy way
of explaining it.
And one of them is the dance.
They're really fun.
It's really crazy to be on a show
where you just read a script and all of a sudden you're
like, oh, and now I have to dance.
Are you a dancer?
No. No.
Did you become one for this?
I had to.
Lettie is a dancer.
Lettie has to do whatever the Shadow King wants her to do.
I wasn't in any this year.
And I was jealous.
I love dancing.
Oh my goodness.
I mean like, I think it's just a Legion thing.
We got to open with a dance sequence.
You know, like, is it Legion if we don't?
Tell us how Legion defies expectations?
Well, Legion is the answer to the question you didn't ask.
Even though it's about X-Men origins story,
it's kind of a human story, done in a really strange way.
In shows that it originate from comics
I think you have a certain idea in your mind of what
it will look like and feel like, and the way it will be written.
But Legion breaks all those conventions.
The Marvel universe, those fans are unique people.
All over the country.
So this speaks to a really wide net
that need and want a story that so, you know,
bizarre and surreal.
That's something I think people are like hungry for.
I mean there's nothing like it.
There's nothing like it out there.
And it's great fun to be a part of.
This is a bad idea.
Just open your mind.
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For FXM I'm Tava Smiley.
See you next time.