Resident Alien Stars Talk Steamy Scenes, Killer Outtakes & Final Season Heartbreak
Resident Alien Stars Talk Steamy Scenes, Killer Outtakes & Final Season Heartbreak
Resident Alien Stars Talk Steamy Scenes, Killer Outtakes & Final Season Heartbreak
Hey everyone, this is Steve Wro with Collider.
I’m here at San Diego Comic-Con, um, in our luxurious studio that you can tell is in San Diego — uh, you know, with the wind.
Anyway, so being serious, uh, I am here with the great folks behind Resident Alien.
How are you guys doing?
Doing great.
Doing good morning.
I was going to say, it has to be a bittersweet time at Comic-Con.
Um, it was announced that this is the final season.
Is that—what?
We weren’t going to tell Alice.
She’s going to go crazy.
Somebody call my publicist.
It’s okay, baby.
Friend, my publicist friend. She’s really into the show.Related Articles
So, wait. You’re saying we’re cancelled?
I’m saying to you that there might not be more episodes.
I don’t want to say “cancelled,” right?
Yeah.
I know. I don’t like that word.
Cancel, because it’s kind of like—wow.
I have a ton of questions for you guys about the show,
but I really want to start with —
thank you so much for making me and a lot of other people laugh.
Thank you.
You know, um, and we’re going to get into the show in a second,
but one of the things is that I’m obsessed with getting more people to see movies in movie theaters.
So, I’ve been asking everybody — do you have a favorite movie theater?
Oh, yes.
Right.
Oh, you know what? I’m gonna—
I’m gonna be in Los Angeles.
Don’t — um — Lemley on Sunset.
I was going to say Lem—
Oh, I shouldn’t tell everybody, because nobody’s there all the time.
And you can really get — it’s comfortable and it’s good.
They’ve got good screens and great popcorn, and they’ve got those gourmet chocolate bars and stuff.
Gourmet chocolate? Like top?
I’m partial to the American brand.
Yeah, I like it.
It’s a little basic [__] but it serves its purpose.
Yeah, yeah.
And the seating’s nice.
Um, the Vista—
Vista is nice.
Vista is nice.
Tarantino took over.
There you go.
Over in Los Angeles — shoes off.
But Universal CityWalk —
don’t kid yourself, that’s a pretty good theater.
I mean, you gotta do parking — pain in the ass.
No. Well, listen, sir, I respect you a lot,
but the only good theater at what I call the “Shitty Walk”
is the IMAX theater, which is spectacular.
But everything else can go f itself.
Obviously, that’s the one I was talking about.
I’ll jump in with one I miss.
I miss the Cinerama Dome.
Yeah.
Oh, there you go.
I mean, it’s not there, but maybe they’ll bring it back.
I remember seeing The Fugitive there when it first came out —
and people lost their minds.
That’s a movie experience to me.
Cool.
It’s amazing.
I like a drive-in.
Stranded at the drive-in.
Branded.
I went so low on that.
Uh, I was going to say Lemley as well,
but mine’s the NoHo 7 — which is my neighborhood.
So, I don’t know, come check it out.
Collider has hosted some screenings at the NoHo 7.
I know that theater very well.
Uh, and it’s all — yeah.
Let’s move on to the next thing.
So, we’re at Comic-Con,
and one of the things about Comic-Con is a lot of people here collect things.
So, I’m curious — for all of you — do you collect anything?
And if you were to go on the convention floor, what are you looking to buy?
Well, go ahead, Alice.
I didn’t have anything.
Oh, I actually have the entire Kenner Super Powers collection from 1983.
I think it ended in ’86 — including the Hall of Justice, vehicles, you know —
the ones where you squeeze their legs.
I know exactly the storyline you’re talking about.
Now, do you have them loose, or do you have any on card in the package?
The majority of them I got off eBay years ago,
and they are packaged and certified.
Some of them are still in the original packaging.
Very few are loose — I don’t buy them loose.
But yeah, I’ve got a big collection of action figures.
Thousands.
Between my son and I —
I don’t have thousands of Super Powers, ‘cause that collection wasn’t thousands.
But my son and I have a ton of action figures we play with all the time.
Oh, that’s cool.
Yeah, I’m a nerd.
Oh, love it.
Proud. Say it louder.
I like the Funko Pop.
I saw a Funko Pop thing online of the Peacemaker cast,
but they’re on the stage — the dance stage —
and I asked Funko yesterday if it exists.
They said, “I think so.”
So, I’d like that.
I’m going to look for that forever now — whether it exists or not.
You could do the stop-motion choreography of the whole thing.
I would love to.
My wife choreographed it — that’s my interest in it.
It’s the stage that she—
I want to give the rest of the answers, but—
I tried finding out about the Peacemaker Season 2 new opening dance, new song,
and they sent me episodes.
I have them — and I haven’t had the chance to watch.
It’s killing me.
I have access to the new opening and I have not had time to press play.
Wow.
I would like to.
Yeah, good. Cool.
They’re going to reveal it here, I think, tomorrow.
That makes complete sense.
And maybe you’ll see it.
I won’t have seen it, because I won’t—
Anyway, I want to hear your answers.
I collected comic books when I was a kid.
And just about two months ago, maybe over Christmas,
went through the boxes to look at what I had —
and there’s some good stuff in there.
I don’t know if it’s worth anything,
because I read each of them like a hundred times.
So they’re all raggedy,
but like an early Daredevil number two,
and some really old stuff.
But they’re like half ripped,
and I drew on them and stuff like that.
I’m never joking.
Did you geek out then, when you worked on a show that was from a comic book?
That — I didn’t know that about you.
That was cool.
That’s really cool.
Yeah, I loved it.
Wow. Go ahead. I know you have things you look for.
Star Trek stuff.
Star Trek stuff. Thank you.
Mine’s Zelda, all the time.
And lately I’ve been looking for earrings that are super unique.
The last ones I bought at a con were
the girl from The Ring crawling out of the TV — as earrings.
And I really like them, because from afar you have no idea what’s happening,
and when you get up close you’re like, “Ahh!”
But doesn’t that weigh a lot on the ear?
No, they’re super light.
And it’s not the real girl.
It’s — it’s a miniature version.
That’s my new thing. I like to go look.
That’s right.
By the way —
that is the reason why I can imagine that’s what it must be like on set
when you guys were filming this.
Because you like that kind of improv.
I could never do what you just did.
Do you know what I mean?
Like, no, but seriously — a lot of credit,
because when I watch the show, I’m like,
“Oh, that might be an alt line.”
Especially with this guy.
Especially, because I can see people everywhere.
But it’s mostly because I can see someone’s reaction,
and they’re clearly not ready for that line.
And I’m like, “Oh, that’s really good.”
I think that’s one of the best parts about ad-libbing though —
it keeps everyone present.
Because when you’re on the set with this one and this one in particular,
if you are not on your toes and present in the moment,
you will get left behind.
You will get left behind.
Like that movie where the rapture happened
and everybody got left —
there were people who were left behind.
Yeah, I love that movie.
It’s like that but without the rapture.
He does.
Um, so what —
He brings up the rapture a lot.
I’m obsessed with the rapture.
It’s got to be the coolest thing in the world.
Can you imagine just — all of a sudden we’re sitting here —
the mic just drops and just [__] are gone.
Everyone would be like, “Oh my god.”
You’d be, “I guess I’m not worthy.”
You know, oh well.
I mean, they’d leave the best people.
You’re going to have a kick-ass party on Earth though, post-rapture,
‘cause all the most heathenist [__]
are still going to be here with nothing to lose.
Come on, let’s do it.
So, you know, I don’t know.
I’m curious — so this is most likely the end.
And I’m curious, when you were making it—
We’re dying.
Did you know, when you were making it,
that this is probably the last season?
Or was it sort of like, you know what I mean?
Like, how were you thinking about it when you were writing it?
No — 100% knew.
I mean, every year it’s a dance.
At the end of season three,
we were on the bubble,
and I developed the season to put a bunch of cliffhangers at the end,
hoping that that might force them to do another season.
And it didn’t hurt for sure, and we got another season —
but I didn’t think I’d win that battle again.
The way this business is now,
I saw where things were going,
and I didn’t want to play the game of “are we going to get picked up or not?”
So, at the beginning of every season,
I’ve got to go and pitch —
like a couple weeks into the writer’s room.
This was last July —
I’ve got to pitch what the season’s going to be.
And I said, I just made the decision:
I’m going to end it.
Like, I’m going to come up with what is the best version of this show
to end the story we’ve been telling.
And I pitched that to them.
I didn’t know what their reaction would be.
I expected them to —
because it’s very clear, it’s a satisfying ending.
It feels like an ending.
I wasn’t sure after I finished the pitch,
what they were going to say.
If they’d be surprised and be like,
“Wait a second, you just ended it.”
And I finished the pitch and they’re like,
“That’s great.”
And I’m like — huh. Okay.
So when I went into the season,
I sat down with all of these guys and said,
“Look, this is probably going to be the last year.
I don’t see it going past this.
As you read the scripts, you’ll see what I’m talking about creatively.
We should just enjoy it, and appreciate it while we’re doing it,
because it may not happen again.”
Well, the thing is —
getting a television show on the air is like impossible.
And then to have more than one season
is winning a crazy lottery.
So the fact that you guys did get four seasons —
is amazing.
And getting to end it our way, on our terms,
and tell the story the way we wanted to —
tell Harry’s story the way it was meant to be.
Not the way I wanted.
Oh, okay.
There you go.
But yeah —
I think we kill everyone.
I think I suggested that.
Everyone in a witch.
I remember that pitch.
Oh, you haven’t seen the last episode yet.
Oh.
I’m actually — you know, this drives me to a question.
And I want to know what you guys think.
I think one of the things — like, on television and in movies —
we’ve seen everything.
Every version of every story.
But the thing we really haven’t seen too often
is the villain winning.
Or something really bad happening to everyone.
Like, I wanted in Game of Thrones,
I wanted the Night King to win.
Because I thought all these different places
were so obsessed with being on the Iron Throne
that if they just worked together,
they could have defeated the evil.
But having the villain win is representative of the real world —
and how we’re all so obsessed with our own thing.
They kind of did turn the hero into the villain for some reason.
Yeah.
The ending of Game of Thrones is [__] terrible though.
Like it’s just awful.
But you know what —
they did that with Infinity War.
I think the gut blow of that film —
and leading up to it —
was for the first time everyone who’s a fan of these superheroes and comics
watched the bad guy win.
And I think everyone knew that when you got to Endgame,
things were going to somehow turn around.
But I remember walking out of that theater —
like you’re saying, seeing the bad guy win —
and everybody walking out was just like, “You know what I mean?”
But here’s the thing though —
we all knew it was going to get fixed.
I really mean the villain winning for real.
You know what I mean?
Like — and so I was going to say something.
Exactly.
Was there — like, I don’t know how the show ends —
but was there ever any thought of,
“This show has a heart,
where you know things are going to work out in a certain way”?
But how were you thinking about it
in terms of the last few shots,
and ultimately where Harry ends up?
Yeah, it’s a great question.
I don’t want to give away how it ends.
Yeah, I don’t want to know.
But —
I didn’t want to leave the audience feeling anything but happy.
Feeling satisfied.
Feeling hope.
Feeling hopeful about the world.
I mean, it’s the same themes we do every episode in a way —
trying to make people feel a little bit better about their lives.
A little more hopeful.
A little more connected to their neighbor.
And I wanted to carry that through to the end.




