What interests you most about him (Captain Lorca)?
That aspect, the fact that I wasn’t playing the same color over and
over again, that there were hidden depths to this man, that he was going
to react in surprising ways in different situations, that he had maybe
other agendas at certain points with people that were… that they knew
about themselves or they didn’t know about themselves. He’s in denial
about certain things. That he was recognizably human, and that it was a
story born out of our times to tell of our times, these very troubling,
dark times we live in, divisive times we live in. And that it wasn’t
trying to retread anything. I didn’t feel like I was filling the gap
between adverts. I felt like it was something that would hold your
interest round a camp fire.
Having Lorca on Discovery was almost like a social experiment. How long does it take for people to accept actions that they previously found unacceptable if those actions are put in a nice package, that package being Jason Isaacs. When Lorca first showed up on the show being shady and doing things that were very un-Starfleet, people immediately saw him for what he was. His character was criticized a lot. But as each episode went on, the character didn’t change at all but people softened up to him so much that last week there were tons of people mad that the show “suddenly” made him villainous. But the show didn’t suddenly do anything. The show treated the character the way it always has, like a shady person who’s probably worse than he lets on. Making Lorca a villain was barely a plot twist, it was just the culmination of the foreshadowing we got in every single episode.
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