While Hardwicke didn’t specify which images they found, it’s likely that they were referring to something like the 2013 National Geographic portrait series that celebrates multiracial diversity and visualizes a future in which there might be fewer limitations in discussing race and biracial people’s experiences. We found images and scientific data, popular scientific magazines that had images that looked something like Helena looks, and so we thought that maybe our scientist would be thinking that way too, like the future of humanity is going to be genetically diverse.” “Of course, this was written and conceived and cast a year and a half ago, and at that time we were doing research on what did people think the future of humanity would look like, and so we found all these cool images that would be a mixed-race person, would be the future of humanity. “OK, that is fascinating, that’s fantastic,” Hardwicke said when asked if there were a social commentary aspect to the casting choice. When Den of Geek spoke with Hardwicke in early June, the George Floyd protests had been going on for a week, making it impossible to ignore this juxtaposition. This dehumanization of two Black children seems an intentional metaphor for how Black humans are treated in the real world. Brothers Noah (Kaiwi Lyman) and Abel (Harvey Zielinski) consider both Aisha and Calian property of the company: invaluable patents, intelligent machines, incredibly promising for the future of robotics, but nothing more than that.
While Sharon had managed to escape with Aisha, they had been forced to leave Calian behind at the tech company where Sharon originally created both of her robot children, with the intention of returning for him once they were safe. Sharon created Calian for her lonely cyborg daughter, who wanted someone who would be just like her thus her younger brother, whose name means “a warrior of life,” shares her inner hardware and her biracial appearance. While the first half of Don’t Look Deeper concerns Aisha coming to grips with the revelation that she was created by scientist Sharon (Emily Mortimer) and raised by well-meaning father figure Martin (Don Cheadle), partway through the series there is a shift when Aisha remembers that she has a younger brother. The latter aspect of her identity especially makes the season finale, which is intended to end on an optimistic and open-ended note, take on a much more disturbing context-especially considering the latest #BlackLivesMatter protests and anti-racism activism that have mobilized the country since June. Equally vital to take into account is that she is female, queer, and Black. However, while Aisha’s identity as a robot provides the most action-packed stakes for the series, it is not the most important lens through which to view her story.
Over the course of the feature-length season (released in 7-to-10-minute episodes), Aisha asserts her autonomy to her human creators, challenges her peers who see robots as nothing more than property, and-most importantly-tries to save her robot brother Calian (Tyler Ghyzel) from a similar fate. Content warning for discussion of violence against Black bodies.Īs director Catherine Hardwicke told Den of Geek in a recent interview, Quibi’s science fiction thriller series Don’t Look Deeper is a coming-of-age story “on steroids”-that is, it takes the existential questions about identity and power seen in other teenage stories and filters those questions through the metaphor of protagonist Aisha (Helena Howard) discovering that she is a robot. ” As we saw with Reed, Kristen Stewart and then some, Hardwicke has a knack for bringing the most out of emerging talent and jump-starting their careers in a sense.This contains spoilers for the season finale of Quibi’s Don’t Look Deeper. Hardwicke noted, “Helena had a beautiful movie at Sundance called Madeline's Madeline that was kind of inspired by her own life, kind of like saying that Thirteen was inspired by Nikki. The young woman in this scenario is played by Helena Howard. During a recent phone conversation, she even laughed and pointed out, “When I read kind of the first draft of the script, I was just drawn in because I love a story about - as is obvious - a teenage girl or a young woman that’s trying to figure out, who am I? How do I fit in the world? What should I become? Am I the cool kid? Am I an artist?” After giving the trailer a watch, you might be able to tell that the material suits Hardwicke’s sensibilities as a filmmaker quite well.
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