Exclusive: Sterling K. Brown talks sci-fi film Atlas and life after his Oscar nomination
Coming to Netflix on May is the sci-fi thriller, Atlas, directed by Brad Peyton and starring Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Abraham Popoola, Lana Parrilla and Mark Strong.
Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.
The producers of the film include Brad Peyton and Jeff Fierson for ASAP Entertainment; Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell for Safehouse Pictures; Jennifer Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, and Benny Medina for Nuyorican Productions; and Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter for Berlanti/Schechter Films.
Brown plays Colonel Banks, the commanding officer of the mission to GR39 and a veteran ICN official who accepts Atlas’ presence on the voyage without always listening to her input.
He is best known for his roles as Christopher Darden in the FX limited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story and as Randall Pearson in the NBC drama series This Is Us. Both roles earned him Primetime Emmy Awards in addition to a Golden Globe for the latter. He received further Emmy nominations for his roles in the NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the Amazon Prime comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
On film, Brown was last seen in Oscar winner Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, which netted him as Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination for his performance. His other film credits include Hotel Artemis, Marshall, Black Panther, Waves, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul., The Angry Birds Movie 2, and Frozen II.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Sterling K. Brown on his role in Atlas and life after his Oscar nomination.