Exclusive: Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack Reynor talk Prime Video's The Peripheral
Coming out on Oct. 21 on Prime Video is the sci-fi series, The Peripheral, from creator/ showrunner Scott B. Smith, director Vincenzo Natali and executive producers Greg Plageman, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Athena Wickham, and Steven Hoban.
Based on the bestselling novel by William Gibson, the cast includes Chloë Grace Moretz, Jack Reynor, Gary Carr, Eli Goree, Louis Herthum, JJ Feild, T’Nia Miller, Charlotte Riley, Alexandra Billings, Adelind Horan, Alex Hernandez, Katie Leung, Julian Moore-Cook, Melinda Page Hamilton, Chris Coy, and Austin Rising.
The Peripheral centers on Flynne Fisher (Moretz), a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow's America.
Flynne Fisher (Chloe Grace Moretz), her Marine veteran brother, Burton (Jack Reynor), and their dying mother live in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2032. As their mother’s health deteriorates and the medical bills add up, Flynne and Burton make extra money playing simulations (Sims). The two siblings share Burton’s avatar, “jockeying” for high-paying customers to beat challenging game levels. When Burton is offered a chance to beta test a new Sim, it’s Flynne who ends up playing, pretending to be her brother. The Sim takes place in London and it tasks Flynne with breaking into a corporation known as the Research Institute—to steal a valuable secret. When the assignment goes badly wrong, Flynne begins to realize the Sim is more real than she ever could have imagined. The London she’s exploring exists in the future…year 2099.
And what Flynne has uncovered in the Research Institute has put her and her family in grave peril. There are people from the future who want to use Flynne for the information she’s stolen…and there are others who want Flynne dead. Flynne encounters Wilf (Gary Carr) in Future London, a man who may be the key to unlocking the mystery at hand. But first, in her present, Flynne and Burton, along with his former elite military unit, must rally to save themselves from forces intent on killing them—forces sent from the future to reclaim the vital secret Flynne stole.
Moretz, whose recent credits include “Greta,” “Suspiria,” “Shadow in the Cloud,” the live-action film adaptation of the cartoon “Tom and Jerry” and the animated version of “The Addams Family,” was last seen in the sci-fi thriller feature “Mother/Android.”
Reynor most recently appeared in the Russo Brothers’ crime drama feature “Cherry.” Prior to that, he starred in the A24 horror film “Midsommar.” Other feature credits include “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” “On the Basis of Sex,” “Detroit,” and “Sing Street.” On the TV side, he starred in the CBS All Access series “Strange Angel” and appeared in Season 2 of the Amazon anthology “Modern Love.”
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Moretz and Reynor regarding their roles in the series.