Exclusive: Hannah John-Kamen Talks Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’

Now playing on NBC’s Peacock streaming platform is the sci-fi drama series Brave New World., starring Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay and Harry Lloyd. Based on the Aldous Huxley novel, the cast also includes Pitch‘s Kylie Bunbury, Killjoys‘ Hannah John-Kamen, Killing Eve’s Nina Sosanya, The Originals‘ Joseph Morgan and Origin’s Sen Mitsuji.

Written by David Wiener, Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor based on Huxley’s groundbreaking 1932 novel, Brave New World imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself.

As citizens of New London, Bernard Marx (Lloyd) and Lenina Crowne (Brown Findlay) have only ever known a rigid social order, a perfect pharmaceutical called Soma, and a culture of instant gratification and ubiquitous sex. Curious to explore life beyond the strictures of their society, the two New Worlders embark on a vacation to the Savage Lands, where they become embroiled in a harrowing and violent rebellion. Bernard (Lloyd) and Lenina are rescued by John the Savage (Ehrenreich), who escapes with them back to New London. The arrival of John, a subversive outsider, in the New World, threatens to disrupt the stability of New London’s utopian society. Brown Findlay’s Lenina Crowne is a Beta Plus Hatchery worker, who has begun to question her position within the strict social strata of the New World.

John-Kamen, who appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens,  Black Mirror, and Tomb Raider, plays Wilhelmina “Helm” Watson, a hedonistic artist and New London’s premier maker of Feelies.

BlackFilmandTV spoke exclusively to John-Kamen about her role in the series.