Dark Matter
Summary
Jason Dessen , a college prof and fellowship man , is charge on an emotional whirlwind inDark Matterwhen he is snatch and dumped into an alternate realism . Desperate to find a way home , Jason realizes an alternative rendering of himself has taken over his life history , putting the living he build and his family in danger . As Jason does everything he can to come back home , the alternate Jason learns that this life story is n’t all he imagined . When Jason finally find out his way home , thing become even more complicated than either Jason could have guess .
Blake Crouch is the creator ofDark Matter , bringing his acclaimed novel to life story on screen for the first time . The mold of Dark Matter delivers unnumbered incredible performance with each cast penis playing at least two version of themselves . Joel Edgerton diddle countless version of Jason , finding man in each , even the more nefarious ones . WhileDark Matteris a science fabrication storyat its heart , the serial is about love and family , as Jason does whatever it takes to turn back home and protect the 1 he loves .
While perfectly conclude some of its primary story arcs , Dark Matter season 1 ’s ending also on purpose leaves some major interrogative sentence unanswered .
Screen RantinterviewedDark Matterstar Dayo Okeniyi . He broke down his glide slope to differentiating the two Leightons both in their physical attributes and how they see the world . Okeniyi also explained how he and Edgerton cultivated the dynamics between the unlike Leightons and differentJasons inDark Matter .
Dayo Okeniyi Breaks Down His Approach To Playing 2 Different Versions Of Leighton
Okeniyi explained his attack to playing two unlike versions of Leighton . Where Edgerton wanted the differences to be more nuanced , Okeniyi want the contrast between the two Leightons , both in their physicality and wit , to be obvious . He also partake how Crouch was supportive of this direction .
Dayo Okeniyi : Well , first of all , it ’s on the Sir Frederick Handley Page . I have to give a lot of mention to Blake , his married woman , Jacque [ Ben - Zekry ] . They write a lot of the episodes . It was right on there on the Thomas Nelson Page . I just had to read the page and hit my mark and strike my light . But aboveboard , it just come down to I ’m the form of actor , I follow breadcrumbs . If you have a existence and you have a Leighton , who was raised by a granddad that actually gave him the tools to be the expert version of himself potential . Discipline , respect , bequest , and give him this party , Velocity . He would carry himself differently , he would see himself other than , see himself with purpose and hear to survive out that design , perchance to an evil remnant , who knows ?
But you could also have this other Leighton who did n’t have any of those thing . That grandfather died and he ’s raised by absent rich parents . So he has no purpose in sprightliness . He has no direction . He lead this existential , or rather this epicurean beingness . So I just follow those breadcrumbs and that informs everything . The mode they dress , the path they take the air , the style they carry themselves , all that . The direction he addresses hoi polloi outside of himself and just try out to be as realistic as possible . But I really wanted to press . Because I bang blab out to Joel earlier when we started filming , Joel told us the differences are going to be very little .
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He wanted to really put a nicety , but he ’s playing like 20 versions of himself . So I call up he had the bandwidth to do that . Those of us who were play three or two versions of ourselves , I really wanted it to be as distinct as possible . I really catch to give it up to Blake . Blake was like , Do it , push it . You desire blond tip ? Go in advance . You require the earrings , you need tattoos . campaign it as far as possible , and Apple never enunciate no . So we just get push and I ’m felicitous it turn out well because that ’s a very life-threatening gradient where now you make this clown graphic symbol . I cerebrate Leighton passed that litness test .
Dayo Okeniyi Explains The Different Dynamics Between The Leightons And The Jasons
Okeniyi also discussed collaborate with Edgerton on the dynamics between the two Jasons and the two Leightons . He explain why Jason2 and the Leighton from his mankind had such a close human relationship compared to the that of Jason2 and the Leighton of Jason1 ’s world .
Dayo Okeniyi : It really just came from a relationship with Leighton1 . The first Leighton we meet . Him and Jason have a very previous relationship . They built this company together . They ’ve been working together for a very long time . And so there ’s a very airless familiarity there and a real reliance and a substantial fraternal James Bond between the two of them . That was very apparent from the beginning . Then with the second interlingual rendition of Leighton , he has n’t fancy his admirer Jason since college . He ’s wealthy and he ’s a Isle of Man of means , and he ’s being set about from friends out of the woodwork for , Oh , finance , this matter , or give me money for this company , this patronage .
So there ’s that distrust . There ’s that , yeah , I ’ll posture . Come into my family . no-account about the mess , but I ’m not giving you any money . There ’s that aloofness . These are very slight conversation that we would have as to how warm am I , how approachable am I ? That was very interesting play because when he ’s like , I ’m not giving you any money . He shuts him down , it really feels like he ’s pulling the rug from under him . He in the start was so nice .
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So just all that sport hooey . But really a lot of it was on the Sir Frederick Handley Page . I would just say I just come in and just do a little sprinkling on how big I would go with the performance . But Blake had everything in his head all thought out and Joel as well . So my affair was I ’m go to go as far as potential , I ’ll leave it to the editor in chief and the producers to pick my performance in the redaction world .
I fully , by the final stage of this was like , I need a tailspin - off just watching Leighton ’s adventures through the multiverse
Dayo Okeniyi : Leighton ’s Adventures . For sure .
About Dark Matter
Based on Blake Crouch ’s international bestseller . Jason Dessen is kidnap into an alternate version of his life . To get back to his unfeigned kin , he embark on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrific foe imaginable : himself .
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Dark Matteris available to watch solely on Apple TV+
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Dark Matter ( 2024 ): Jason Dessen is thrust into an alternate realness where he must present an ominous version of himself . His pursuit to devolve to his original living leads him on a ambitious journey to reunite with his family line , navigate the complexities of parallel existences .
