Dark Matter stars Jennifer Connelly and Jimmi Simpson have hit just about every genre in their careers – but there was something special that true them to the new Apple TV Plus series.
"I thought it was a great idea for a show. I thought the combination of the sort of domestic love story that kind of then tipped into a little bit of a thriller later in the season with this adventure," Connelly, who's done everything from bloody giallo horror films to action movies like Top Gun: Maverick, tells GamesRadar+. "[It's] kind of like an Odyssean adventure that Jason goes on to get back home and all of the literal different crazy worlds that he goes through. I thought it could make really fun, exciting television, and I like the opportunity to play different versions of a character."
The series also stars Jimmi Simpson, who is no stranger to the sci-fi genre having starred in Westworld, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone. Simpson says the series stood out to him for a particular, more emotional reason.
"My first reaction [to the script] was, 'Oh my God, someone's tackling the what-if human fear and daydream. What if I'd done the other thing?' How are they gonna pull this off?" Simpsons tells GR+. "And then after I read the first couple episodes, which was I think all that was available, I then ordered two copies of the novel right away and read that and was blown away that they posed the question and then satisfied. They just articulated this universal human wondering so beautifully, as well as the follow-through. And from that point on, I was obsessed with hopping on."
The cast includes Alice Braga, Oakes Fegley, Dayo Okeniyi, and Amanda Brugel. The first three episodes are helmed by Jakob Verbruggen, who helmed the Black Mirror episode, 'Men Against Fire.'
