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From Chris and Paul Weitz, the minds behind About A Boy and American Pie, comes a brand new Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy riff on the way forward for androids in Murderbot. The present starring Alexander Skarsgård provides one other chilly and ruthless killer to the actor’s resume of heartless roles, however with one hiccup. This Murderbot simply doesn’t get the enchantment of its job: to homicide. “All it finally ends up doing is procrastinating,” Skarsgård advised Vanity Fair in regards to the idea based mostly on The Murderbot Diaries from creator Martha Wells.

“It simply doesn’t get people in any respect,” Skarsgård defined. “It’s not a deep hatred, it’s simply zero quantity of curiosity. It’s confused by people and needs to get away from them.”

Which, let’s be actual, is relatable content material should you too get hyper-fixated on the everlasting seek for which means. And it’s not the primary time Skarsgård has portrayed an eternally looking however inhuman character. On HBO’s True Blood, the actor performed the playfully charming and chilling vampire Eric Northman, who he likened to Murderbot for that reason: “They’re observing humanity from an identical distance,”

Lately, Skarsgård made a cameo reprising the position of Eric on What We Do within the Shadows‘ last season. He’s so unserious, and poking enjoyable at his heartthrob vampire previous is why we love when he performs towards kind. He continued to match the 2 roles.

“Eric was once human, so in a means he can relate, although it’s been a millennium. However he additionally finds them extremely foolish and petty and simply… insignificant. Murderbot has natural parts, so there are human parts there. I feel it may well additionally perceive or really feel one thing. There’s one thing about being an outsider, and observing humanity from a slight distance, and being a bit confused and perplexed by it.”

However the similarities finish there. “The large distinction is, Eric reveled in being a troublemaker and stirred the pot—whereas Murderbot is the alternative. Murderbot positively doesn’t need to step into the middle of issues. Murderbot needs to mix into the background and simply be left alone to look at its TV reveals.”

Each are nonetheless within the bundle of Alexander Skarsgård so would it not be okay if, you recognize, we acquired Murderbot within the streets, vampire within the sheets?

Murderbot premieres on Apple TV+ Might 16.

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