Even one of the stars of a bonkers new TV series, The Office’s Rainn Wilson, couldn’t believe the coincidences.
For those of you counting at home, that covers an international pandemic, the race for a vaccine, a wide-ranging conspiracy, and suspicions against billionaires.
“Even right now, there’s this rush to get vaccines out and rush to vaccines is something that features significantly in,” Wilson said. “And conspiracy theories – billionaires potentially being behind this. There’s no proof of that obviously but the show deals with shadowy networks operating behind the scenes.in some really stunning and arresting ways that we had no idea while we were filming.
“People always ask me, ‘When you choose your projects, do you choose this or that,’ and it’s like, I’ve definitely turned down a few things here and there, but it’s not like I’m being offered 20 different scripts. “I think there are certain actors out there who are like that – ahem, Steve Carell! – but it doesn’t really work that way for me. So, I felt really lucky to be offered this part and to be part of this thing.”who serves on the advisory board of Arctic Basecamp, an organisation that highlights the rate of change in the Arctic.
“It’s a terrible time. I just read that 25 per cent of young people in America think that the Holocaust either didn’t happen or was exaggerated. There are all kinds of things happening in the dark corners of the internet where you’ve got thousands of people jibber-jabbering about 5G cell towers, Stanley Kubrick, Hillary Clinton, George Soros and the Rothschilds.“So, our show sends it up in a fun way. The show definitely taps into the Zeitgeist.
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