HOLLYWOOD SOAPBOX: INTERVIEW: ‘Continuum’ stars, creator talk about the future
January 10, 2013
By John Soltes
The highly anticipated Canadian sci-fi series, Continuum, is set to premiere Stateside on Syfy on Monday, Jan. 14 at 8 p.m. The time-travel tale, featuring Rachel Nichols and Victor Webster, may largely take place in the present day, but it’s no typical police procedural.
Nichols plays Kiera Cameron, a law-enforcement agent who mistakenly gets catapulted from 2077 to the present day. She’s on the hunt for a murderous gang of terrorists known as Liber8. In the future, these “freedom fighters” battle against the corporatized world and lack of democracy. Because they disturb the status quo, they’re deemed a threat to the state. After a deadly explosion kills thousands, the group is sentenced to a collective capital punishment. But just as they’re about to check out of this futuristic world, they’re real plans come to fruition. The terrorists use a device to transport themselves back more than 50 years, and Cameron, who tried to stop the time jump, gets stuck in the whirlwind.
Now it’s up to this solo officer, with the help of a present-day detective (Webster), to save the future by changing the past.
Continuum’s inaugural season will air on Syfy, but the Canadian hit show has already been picked up for a second season...
Continuum cast: Lexa Doig (Sonya Valentine), Roger R. Cross (Travis Berta), Victor Webster (Carlos Fonnegra), Rachel Nichols (Kiera Cameron), Erik Knudsen (Alec Sadler) and Stephen Lobo (Matthew Kellog).
... Hollywood Soapbox: The genre has a lot of fans, and there’s some really great work out there. Are there some inspirations … or sci-fi you’ve enjoyed before signing up for Continuum?
Victor Webster: "I’m a huge sci-fi fan. I love all the Star Wars movies. I’ve watched TV shows since I was a kid, like Manimal, dating back to when I was in my early teens. I’m a big kid now and my imagination is very vivid. So I love shows that let me explore that and let me go out and see all that. So anything that deals with sci-fi, space, technological gadgets, super powers, I’m in."
Hollywood Soapbox: This vision of the future in 2077, it’s pretty dystopian, a little bleak with the corporations and such. Kind of Orwellian almost. Do you think that’s where we’re headed? I know it’s just one artist’s, one creator’s vision, but do you think that might be where we’re headed?
Rachel Nichols: "I think that’s one of the really interesting things about the show, and the fact that the sci-fi genre allows you to go to these places and have this idea of the future. And people accept it, and then they do ask that question: Is this where we are headed?
I hope not, because I happen to really enjoy food and running water and live animals. The future looks pretty bleak, as far as I’m concerned. But you know there’s a lot to be said for some of the different events and issues that we take on in the first 10 episodes of the show. And I’m sure in season two, we’ll dive into even more. But yeah there definitely is that recurring question of, is this really where we’re headed? And what can we possibly do to prevent that from happening?"
Continuum cast includes Erik Knudsen, Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Stephen Lobo, Stargate Universe's Jennifer Spence; Stargate SG-1's Tony Amendola and Lexa Doig; Richard Harmon, Omari Newton, Brian Markinson and Roger R. Cross.
Continuum premieres in the US on Syfy on Monday, January 14, 2013 at 8/7C. CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO SNEAK PEEK OF THEIR PREMIERE EPISODE, 'A STITCH IN TIME.'
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