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Star Sean Gunn
Tell us a bit about your role in H+ .
I play Jason O’Brien who, years ago, surfed around the world as a human guinea pig – he would have different injections and go to different medical facilities. Years ago his body was devastated by some of these micro-organisms that were planted inside him. They started to tear his body apart, and he had a bit of a spiritual awakening. He started this neo-Luddite movement, that has a lot of followers out in the woods. So when H+ (the internet implant) kills all those people, Jason and his band of followers who have rejected science become really important. And Jason also has some other strange connections to some nefarious elements.
How would you feel if technology that allowed you to be connected to the internet 24/7 existed?
I’m a little scared of it, but I think I’d probably be like a lot of the people in H+ are, that when enough people do it I’d probably feel safe about it! [Laughs] I don’t think I’d the first to get an H+ implant, but after thousands and then tens of thousands and then hundreds of thousands people have one? I’d say, “Okay, that’s gotta be safe!”
Was the Bryan Singer name a draw for you when you signed up?
Absolutely. Obviously Bryan Singer’s a guy who, if his name is on it, there’s going to be an attention to detail. It’s going to be meticulously put together! And it was really Bryan that got the thing made.I think there were a lot of people that thought that it was a really cool idea but it couldn’t be done, and I think that’s what Bryan is good at – looking at something like that and saying, “This is a good idea, and it can be done.”
Do you think a show like H+ has a limited shelf life, or could it run indefinitely?
There’s no end to the number of stories that you can generate from H+ . This particular part of the story that we see now stretches a range of about 15 years. But if you wanted to expand the story you can expand it in both directions. You could jump 20 years into the future, and you can could go 20 years into the past, and find compelling components that work within the mythos. That’s tremendously exciting for me. I think that’s the idea of that, that the world goes on indefinitely, just like the real world does. I think people who like storytelling are drawn to that because it gives the world weight.
