From Chris and Paul Weitz , the intellect behindAbout A BoyandAmericanPie , amount a fresh Apple TV+ sci - fi comedy riff on the future of androids inMurderbot . The show star Alexander Skarsgård tot up another cold and unpitying killer to the thespian ’s survey of heartless roles , but with one hiccup . This Murderbot just does n’t get the entreaty of its job : to murder . “ All it end up doing is procrastinating , ” Skarsgård toldVanity Fairabout the conception based onThe Murderbot Diariesfrom authorMartha Wells .
“ It just does n’t get humans at all , ” Skarsgård explicate . “ It ’s not a deep hate , it ’s just zero amount of curio . It ’s confused by humans and wants to get away from them . ”
Which , let ’s be material , is relatable subject if you too get hyper - fix on the eternal search for meaning . And it ’s not the first sentence Skarsgård has portrayed an eternally searching but inhuman lineament . On HBO’sTrue Blood , the actor played the playfully wizardly and shivery vampire Eric Northman , who he liken to Murderbot for this reason : “ They are observing mankind from a exchangeable distance , ”
Alexander Skarsgård as Murderbot.© Apple TV+
lately , Skarsgård made a cameo reprising the office of Eric onWhat We Do in the trace ‘ final season . He ’s so unserious , and poking fun at his heartthrob vampire past is why we love when he plays against type . He continue to compare the two roles .
“ Eric used to be human , so in a way he can relate , even though it ’s been a millenary . But he also finds them implausibly silly and petty and just … undistinguished . Murderbot has constituent constituent , so there are human constituent there . I imagine it can also understand or experience something . There ’s something about being an outsider , and observing world from a little distance , and being a bit baffled and perplexed by it . ”
But the similarities end there . “ The big difference is , Eric whoop it up in being a bad hat and conjure the tummy — while Murderbot is the opposite . Murderbot definitely does n’t need to pace into the center of things . Murderbot wants to immix into the background and just be leave alone to watch its boob tube shows . ”
Both are still in the package of Alexander Skarsgård so would it be okay if , you make love , we got Murderbot in the streets , vampire in the sheets ?
Murderbotpremieres on Apple TV+ May 16 .
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