![]() Restarting production on Station Eleven in Toronto in February 2021 – drawing on the recent past, projecting far into the future – blurred her reality even further. (Davis, 34, is Vancouver-born, but moved from LA to London later in 2020.) “I just kept feeling shuttled back in time, or to other planes of time where I was still living other lives.” In the “infinite void” of quarantine, Davis – who holed up with a friend in LA – kept feeling overtaken by memories of places she had once been and past homes. “I mean, I keep finding myself in conversations being like: ‘How’s your pandemic? What have you been doing for the last few years?’ Just sort of catching yourself, like, wow, we’re using the word ‘pandemic’ colloquially – the casualness – as a unit of time.” The surrealness of that time still weighs on Davis. Mirroring life … Matilda Lawler and Himesh Patel venture out after lockdown. ![]() If these connections sometimes seem dependent on coincidence, they are consistent with how many of us experienced the pandemic: how small our worlds became, the fluidity of past and present. ![]() Meanwhile, Arthur’s ex-wife Miranda (Danielle Deadwyler) has completed her graphic novel, years in the making, about a stranded spaceman – titled Station Eleven.Īs society collapses, characters shape each others’ fates in ways that take decades to be uncovered. Arthur dies on stage, and in the ensuing confusion Kirsten is taken in by audience member Jeevan (Himesh Patel, also seen having a panic attack about the end of the world in Don’t Look Up) and his brother Frank (Nabhaan Rizwan). When the Georgia flu arrives in Chicago, Kirsten is eight years old and acting in a production of King Lear alongside movie star Arthur Leander (Gael García Bernal). Narratives are looping and layered, with the present intruded upon by memories of “year zero”. The events of the 10 episodes tell a story that is extremely nonlinear. “There has to be something that pushes you to want to live through extreme difficulty and tragedy – and it has to include laughter and joy.” She plays Kirsten, the Traveling Symphony troupe’s star player, in “year 20” when the threat of the virus is long past and post-pandemic civilisation has stabilised. “That’s something I really love about the show … because why survive, if it’s just misery?” says Davis – who is perhaps best known for the Black Mirror episode San Junipero.
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