{"id":21459,"date":"2022-01-11T01:18:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=21459"},"modified":"2022-02-01T21:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:47:37","slug":"ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/ra\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with the cast of &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>TV Interview!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21457\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ra.png\" alt=\"Creator Chris Sheridan with Alan Tudayk, Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund and Corey Reynolds of &quot;Resident Alien&quot; on Syfy\" width=\"476\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ra.png 692w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ra-300x138.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> Interview with cast of &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221; on Syfy by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a> 12\/9\/21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always great to talk to these people! They&#8217;re just very fun and hilarious! Much like the show. There may be some spoilers here, so you may not want to read it before watching the second season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NBCUNIVERSAL <\/strong><strong>VIRTUAL PRESS TOUR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SYFY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Resident Alien<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corey Reynolds, Talent, \u201cSheriff Mike Thompson\u201d <\/strong><strong>Sara Tomko, Talent, \u201cAsta Twelvetrees\u201d <\/strong><strong>Alan Tudyk, Talent, \u201cHarry Vanderspeigle\u201d <\/strong><strong>Alice Wetterlund, Talent, \u201cD\u2019Arcy Bloom\u201d <\/strong><strong>Chris Sheridan, Executive Producer\/Creator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtual via Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 9, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2021 NBCUniversal, Inc.\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>PAM BEER:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 I am Pam Beer to introduce our panel for &#8220;Resident Alien,&#8221; which we announced this morning will launch it\u2019s second season on Wednesday, January 26th, at 9:00, on both SYFY and USA Network before moving exclusively to SYFY.\u00a0 &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221; follows a crash\u2011landed alien named Harry, whose secret mission is to kill all humans.\u00a0 In Season 2, Harry is once again stranded on Earth where he must confront the consequences of having failed his people&#8217;s mission to destroy the human race.\u00a0 On his new quest to protect the people of Earth, Harry struggles to hold on to his alien identity as his human emotions grow stronger by the day.\u00a0 Here is a clip from behind the scenes of &#8220;Resident Alien.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the top row are executive producer Chris Sheridan, Alan Tudyk, and Sara Tomko.\u00a0 In the bottom row are Alice Wetterlund and Corey Reynolds.\u00a0 We are now ready for your questions.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 Thank you, Pam.\u00a0 And welcome to our panelists.\u00a0 Just a reminder to use the &#8220;raise hand&#8221; function if you have a question.\u00a0 Our first question comes from Mike Hughes and Suzanne\u00a0Lanoue is on deck.\u00a0 Mike, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Alan, you get to do a lot of weird things in this show, but I wanted to ask you about two of them.\u00a0 One of them is running off with that, sort of, octopus in your hands, what was that like?\u00a0 And the second one is getting to pronounce your actual real name from your planet, how hard was that to learn to pronounce that, and how difficult is that to do?<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 Oh, yes.\u00a0 Well, that&#8217;s excellent.\u00a0 I forget you guys have seen the three episodes.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen that.\u00a0 Running with the octopus was great because it&#8217;s made of rubber, some kind of silicone, and it does its own acting.\u00a0 You just give it a little jiggle, and it really comes through.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great scene partner.\u00a0 That was a blast.\u00a0 We shot that in Ladysmith, which is a little town that (inaudible).\u00a0 And running down the streets of Ladysmith with an octopus was fun to do.\u00a0 I think it was popular with the local residents as well.\u00a0 Anytime Harry speaks his language, it&#8217;s always fun.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know that it will ever be a language like Klingon where you go to conventions and people actually speak it as a language.\u00a0 It&#8217;s much more illusive.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very illusive.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s like it&#8217;s a back\u2011and\u2011forth between me and the editors.\u00a0 It switches up a little bit every take, and then they find the best string of sounds and probably facial expressions to go along with it that makes for the best scene.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 Thanks, man.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 Our next question comes from Suzanne Lanoue, and Abbie Bernstein will be on deck.\u00a0 Go ahead, Suzanne.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Good morning.\u00a0 Nice to see you guys again.\u00a0 Chris, I enjoyed the three episodes, and I love the music in the first three episodes that we saw, especially the \u201cMASH\u201d theme at the end.\u00a0 Who chose the music, and will there be any more singing in this season?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 I chose the music.\u00a0 I have some music supervisors that help.\u00a0 But I will say, the \u201cMASH\u201d theme\u00a0\u2011\u2011 these are all spoilers, by the way.\u00a0 I can get into the specifics from these episodes that, probably, you can&#8217;t write about quite yet.\u00a0 But the \u201cMASH,\u201d yeah, there&#8217;s that moment at the end of 3 where\u00a0\u2011\u2011 again, this is not to be revealed, but\u00a0\u2011\u2011 D&#8217;Arcy gets in the helicopter.\u00a0 I had sent a picture of Alice in a helicopter to\u00a0\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 A video.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 \u2011\u2011 a video of Alice in a helicopter to Alice Wetterlund, and she sent it back to me with the wonderful \u201cMASH\u201d theme attached to it, and I was determined from that point on to put that in the episode. \u00a0So, we are in the process\u00a0of playing \u2011\u2011<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Lily, your daughter, Chris, is obsessed with \u201cMASH.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 My daughter is obsessed with \u201cMASH.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 So, we are, kind of, always \u2011\u2011 it&#8217;s in the zeitgeist of the show.\u00a0 It&#8217;s conversation\u00a0\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 \u2011\u2011 because it is in the zeitgeist.\u00a0 And, so, I saw that footage, and it just\u00a0\u2011\u2011 a lot of the footage from the show\u00a0\u2011\u2011 and you can write about this\u00a0\u2011\u2011 is very beautiful.\u00a0 We have incredible DPs.\u00a0 And it just looked like film to me.\u00a0 It looked old and gorgeous.\u00a0 And I just was, like, &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;ve got to put the theme song.&#8221;\u00a0 But in terms of who chooses the music\u00a0\u2011\u2011 and you should probably write this\u00a0\u2011\u2011 it&#8217;s mostly me and Levi.\u00a0 And he does have a music supervisor that no one has ever met, but it&#8217;s really cool because Levi and I do a radio show for the cast and the crew.\u00a0 And sometimes, every once in a while, Chris is nice enough to pick one of the songs that we&#8217;ve played on our radio show to put on the show, the actual show.\u00a0 So, yeah, feel free to write about the radio show.\u00a0 No one ever cares.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Yes, I do.\u00a0 I definitely use the radio show to find music.\u00a0 So, it&#8217;s all very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 And did you hear my other part of the question about will we see any singing this season?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 We will.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Oh, you know we will.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Well, we will see singing.\u00a0 We will see\u00a0\u2011\u2011 Alice will get to sing this year, which we are very excited about.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know which episode it is, but we will get to see Alice\u00a0Wetterlund sing this year, which is going to be fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Well, there is a karaoke machine in the bar that you&#8217;ve written in for the season.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 So, you kind of \u2011\u2011<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 I had to go back to it.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 It seems like everybody is going to make their rounds.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Alice is next.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see who goes next, maybe Sara.\u00a0 Sara is good.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 I think so.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 Our next question comes from Abbie Bernstein, and Jamie Ruby is going to be on deck.\u00a0 Abbie, go for it.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 I have two questions, actually, one for Mr.\u00a0Tudyk and one for Mr.\u00a0Sheridan.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t print this until after the episodes have aired.\u00a0 But, Mr.\u00a0Tudyk, when Harry is playing other people, do you study those actors?\u00a0 Do those actors go to Alan\u00a0Tudyk school?\u00a0 Does everybody just wing it?\u00a0 How does that work?<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 I recognize you.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 Hello.\u00a0 I recognize your voice.\u00a0 How is it going?<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Good.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 It is good to hear you.\u00a0 It&#8217;s\u00a0\u2011\u2011 they&#8217;ve watched the show.\u00a0 So, they, sort of\u00a0\u2011\u2011 I think they just go to Alan school, I guess.\u00a0 And, yeah, it&#8217;s really up to them.\u00a0 I make myself available if they want to talk about my process and how I go about it.\u00a0 But, yeah, I mean, I guess you&#8217;ve seen the first three episodes.\u00a0 So, is Alice born?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 The first three episodes.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 So, you&#8217;ve seen that.\u00a0 So, yes, Alice is just naturally an alien, I think.\u00a0 She just has that about her, and it&#8217;s not just the probing.\u00a0 She just comes across that way.\u00a0 But I think Sara could probably speak to this a little bit as well because you had to do it, right?<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I was going to jump in and say, I don&#8217;t remember what episode, but I had a small little part where I got to be Harry.\u00a0 And I was going to ask you for advice, Alan, but I also was, like\u00a0\u2011\u2011 I think I just wanted to watch you.\u00a0 I think I started really just, kind of, creepily staring at you as I got closer to that scene.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 I remember, when I woke up from my nap in my trailer, you were standing over me.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 I was like this?<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 It was a little odd.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 Do you know what, Alan?\u00a0 I have to say, the small, little time I got to be you, it&#8217;s very physical.\u00a0 At least it was for me.\u00a0 I felt like my whole body was stiff.\u00a0 I felt like I had very mechanical movements.\u00a0 Chris actually suggested I do this hand motion towards the door because that&#8217;s something you had done in a previous scene.\u00a0 So, I did that.\u00a0 But I also just felt like there&#8217;s a lot more than, I think, the audience can even see that you are doing.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 To me, it just felt like a full\u2011body workout.\u00a0 And I was really, like, &#8220;Man, if I had to do this all the time, every day, I would be exhausted.&#8221;\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m super proud of you.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN: (Inaudible) with those, Sara.\u00a0 That was Sara playing Harry playing Asta.\u00a0 I mean, that was no \u2011-<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 \u2011\u2011 (inaudible) good too.\u00a0 Get Corey in on that.\u00a0 Maybe Corey is the next one whose body Alan takes over.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to it.\u00a0 I told you, I think that would be a really fun thing to jump into Harry&#8217;s body.\u00a0 I think that would be great.\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s one of the unique components of this show is that\u00a0\u2011\u2011 not to\u00a0\u2011\u2011 making sure I&#8217;m not giving away any spoilers here because I see this transforming thing is a potential spoiler, but I think that&#8217;s one of the really cool components of this show is that there&#8217;s this aspect of everyone getting a chance to\u00a0\u2011\u2011 or everyone Harry needs to embody getting a chance to provide their interpretation of Harry and of Alan&#8217;s performance of Harry.\u00a0 I think that will be fun.\u00a0 I look forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 About ten minutes before Alan&#8217;s (inaudible) scene playing Harry, I went up to her, and I said, &#8220;Do you want to spend some time with Alan?&#8221;\u00a0 I said, &#8220;Alan is gracious as an actor, and he would want to spend time with her if she wanted to watch his movements or whatever.&#8221;\u00a0 And she said, &#8220;I&#8217;m good.&#8221;\u00a0 At least she had studied it on her own, but I was, like, &#8220;All right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 And, Mr.\u00a0Sheridan, is the series still following the graphic novels, or has it taken off in its own direction now?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 It took off in its own direction early on in Season 1, not that we don&#8217;t still pay homage to the novels.\u00a0 We even look for different framing of some shots and some different shots from the graphic novels that we try to use in the show.\u00a0 That first graphic novel was about the murder of Sam Hodges, which is continuing into the second season.\u00a0 So that is still alive for us.\u00a0 There is an episode where that is, sort of, pulled from one of the graphic novels that we are doing this season where Harry and Asta go to New\u00a0York in search of an alien, and that is directly from one of the\u00a0\u2011\u2011 or indirectly\u00a0\u2011\u2011 directly and indirectly off of one of the graphic novels.\u00a0 That was one of my favorite comments of theirs that they did.\u00a0 I thought Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse did an incredible job with that one.\u00a0 As soon as I read it, I thought that would be a great training for her, Alan, and Sara to do.\u00a0 So, we worked that into the season.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 At the time we talked about that, Chris, we were not in a pandemic.\u00a0 So, I think we all thought, &#8220;We get to go to New\u00a0York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 And that didn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 But Vancouver is a pretty cool second New\u00a0York.\u00a0 I think they did a great job.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 You guys went to Newcouver.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 Newcouver.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 Newcouver.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 Our next question comes from Jamie Ruby, and then Jamie Steinberg is going to be on deck.\u00a0 So, Jamie Ruby, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Jamie.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi, guys.\u00a0 Thanks for talking to us today.\u00a0 Alan, I want to know if you can talk about working with Judah because you two are so hilarious together.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Can you just talk about that and what it&#8217;s like working with him?<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 I enjoy working with Judah.\u00a0 I think he&#8217;s a great kid.\u00a0 He&#8217;s funny.\u00a0 He&#8217;s naturally funny.\u00a0 So, I guess I have a lot of respect for him.\u00a0 That probably helps.\u00a0 He&#8217;s really funny.\u00a0 It&#8217;s, like, his instincts are of a comedic instinct.\u00a0 He sees what&#8217;s funny and can top it.\u00a0 We did some improv this season.\u00a0 There is a scene where\u00a0\u2011\u2011 it&#8217;s probably in the episodes you saw where he gets a spanking.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 That&#8217;s enough.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 And so, yeah, he loved getting to just riff on &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t hurt.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;You are doing it wrong.&#8221;\u00a0 Anything he was saying during that, those were all things he came up with, and he really enjoyed it.\u00a0 He&#8217;s come into this season very curious about the show.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 &#8220;Longer than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 He&#8217;s just a cool kid.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have kids.\u00a0 So, I like to think of him as not my own child but as, like, a child that my dog might own.\u00a0 So\u00a0\u2011\u2011 we have a dog.\u00a0 So, I can relate.\u00a0 So, it&#8217;s sort of a distant child in that way.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 I can relate that way too.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you so much.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 Next up is Jamie Steinberg, and Valerie Milano will be on deck.\u00a0 Jamie, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 I love getting to see Alan with Alice.\u00a0 I just think it&#8217;s kind of, like, two comedy giants playing off of each other.\u00a0 Talk a little bit, Alan, how much of your scenes are improv, how much of it is scripted, and just in general working with Alice.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 Working with Alice is fantastic.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve loved her work for a very long time.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a big fan of &#8220;Maisel,&#8221; and that she joined us this season was fantastic, and that she got to be my love interest was even\u00a0more \u2011\u2011 my love interest or just the object of my affections was brilliant.\u00a0 It was a lot of fun.\u00a0 Her relationship with Chris goes back a long way.\u00a0 You can see it when the two of them are together.\u00a0 They have a really strong friendship.\u00a0 It was really fun to watch them, really more than anything, together.\u00a0 And we embrace some in that scene, I&#8217;m remembering.\u00a0 As far as improv goes, there&#8217;s leeway.\u00a0 And everybody can speak to this because everybody does this.\u00a0 Chris is a very generous creator in a lot of ways.\u00a0 But as far as listening to the actors when we have dialogue that could possibly be a little more in our character voice, we have something, like, a word\u00a0\u2011\u2011 there&#8217;s a lot of stuff, like, from Harry that he&#8217;ll say, &#8220;Can I say this word instead of this word? because, the way that my process is, Harry wouldn&#8217;t say this word.\u00a0 Can we substitute this word or this phrasing?&#8221;\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot of that.<\/p>\n<p>And then we usually have, I know for myself, an opportunity to, kind of, play, especially if it&#8217;s a joke.\u00a0 If it&#8217;s just a joke, the punch line, you can do the punch line as many different ways as you want &#8212; or the out of the scene.\u00a0 Yesterday, we were shooting something with a scene, and there was, like, &#8220;Oh, what if I&#8217;m sitting at my desk.\u00a0 What if I had a glass of Alka\u2011Seltzer?\u00a0 Yeah, can we get a glass of Alka\u2011Seltzer?\u00a0 All right.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll do the plop, plop, fizz, fizz, and I&#8217;ll be watching the fizzing of the thing, and it&#8217;s confusing to me why it&#8217;s floating and then have the scene.\u00a0 Sara and I will have a scene, and then I&#8217;ll drink it, and it will be disgusting, and I&#8217;ll almost throw up.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll sit there, fizzing through the scene.&#8221;\u00a0 And then it was taking too long to get the Alka\u2011Seltzer because they had to go to the store.\u00a0 I was, like, &#8220;Well, what if we do this with this, or what if we did this?&#8221;\u00a0 And we&#8217;d just throw out ideas, and we came up with something that actually turned out to be more fun.\u00a0 I know Alice herself does a lot of improv because you are comedy.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Oh, yeah.\u00a0 Well, I was going to say\u00a0\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 You are comedy.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 \u2011\u2011 that is a really high praise coming from you, but there is something to say.\u00a0 I mean, Chris is so generous.\u00a0 Robbie is generous to the point that I&#8217;m testing it.\u00a0 You say he gives us as many takes as we want as long as there&#8217;s a punch line, and I&#8217;m counting.\u00a0 And, eventually, I&#8217;m going to find out how many is the most and is the cap for that because I&#8217;m getting to it, I feel like.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Well, Corey is the same way.\u00a0 Corey had a scene last year where I was so confident in Corey&#8217;s improv abilities.\u00a0 It was when he was interrogating the lanky stoner in that school classroom.\u00a0 We wrote stuff, but I basically said to him, &#8220;This is going to be you.&#8221;\u00a0 So, all of that stuff that was on the screen was just Corey being ridiculous.\u00a0 So that was fun.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 That is one of the best perks of this job for me.\u00a0 During the course of my career, I&#8217;ve never had the opportunity to have as much influence over a character&#8217;s choices and voice, and that&#8217;s all a testament to Chris and Robbie and our leadership being open to allowing us to explore these different things.\u00a0 And they are not all homeruns.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll pitch something to him sometimes, like, &#8220;Hey, man, what do you think about this?\u00a0 What if dah, dah, dah, dah, dah?&#8221;\u00a0 And he&#8217;ll go, &#8220;Uhhhh,&#8221; when you know that that&#8217;s not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Let&#8217;s do another pitch first.\u00a0 The Alan and Alice stuff, I will say\u00a0\u2011\u2011 they were doing one of the scenes that I&#8217;ve written, and I thought they should have a little fun.\u00a0 So, I told the script supervisor, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to go in and maybe see if they can do the lab or whatever.\u00a0 We can figure something out.&#8221;\u00a0 She comes over, and she says, &#8220;Well, for me, I want to know what they are going to say.&#8221;\u00a0 And I was, like, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what they are going to say.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have it written.\u00a0 I just figure these two people will come up with it.&#8221;\u00a0 So, I just said to Alice, like\u00a0\u2011\u2011 I said, &#8220;Just ask Harry, like, does he like to travel and just see where it goes.&#8221;\u00a0 And we laughed.\u00a0 And they called &#8220;action,&#8221; and then Alan and Alice went on for between five and ten minutes before the scene started.\u00a0 I can remember that.\u00a0 It was unbelievable, something about (inaudible) and monkeys in cages.\u00a0 It was unbelievable.\u00a0 The first part of that show was 19 minutes long.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 The best SYFY for, like, a longer episode that time, can you just expand on that so we can fit in the improv?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 There&#8217;s a tremendous amount of \u2011\u2011 actually, there&#8217;s a lot of incredible stuff that we can&#8217;t fit in the show from everybody, from everyone on this panel, I mean, just really great stuff.\u00a0 You have to make your choices.\u00a0 But, yeah, there&#8217;s a whole episode with all of their improv.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure somehow, we can piece that together.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 There&#8217;s a side show that I&#8217;m pitching with Corey, definitely, to get out of our\u00a0\u2011\u2011 because, like, we\u00a0\u2011\u2011 Corey and I were in one scene together so far this season, and I was, like, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we get to do more episodes together, man?&#8221;\u00a0 And then, when we started going back and improvising on top of each other, I was, like, &#8220;Oh, this is why.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, this is why they don&#8217;t get us together.&#8221;\u00a0 It takes me back to the bowling alley scenes, which is, I believe, my first day of filming.\u00a0 And I think we went, like, three or four takes in before Robbie was, like, &#8220;Okay.\u00a0 Guys, do you know what?\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s important that we at least get one that&#8217;s, like, as written, you know, maybe just one.\u00a0 Can we just get one?\u00a0 Once we have one that&#8217;s on the page, we are good to go, but we should probably for safety.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get at least one that is what&#8217;s written,&#8221; because I think we just decided that &#8220;Oh, yeah, the script is just a suggestion.&#8221;\u00a0 We just decided to go on our own little tangents there.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Having never worked with each other before at all.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 It&#8217;s also the very first day.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 The behind\u2011the\u2011scenes arrest in Episode 10 from the first season\u00a0\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 \u2011\u2011 Corey was arresting Alice.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 Oh.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 And you were talking about pulling hair.\u00a0 I think Alice\u00a0\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 Her fighting style was a mix of volleyball and capoeira or something like that.\u00a0 It was just ridiculous stuff.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Well, thank you all so much for bringing a little bit of levity to our lives during these times.\u00a0 It means so much.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 Our next question comes from Valerie Milano, and Janice Malone is going to be on deck.\u00a0 Valerie, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 This question is probably mostly for Chris but if any of the talent wants to chime in.\u00a0 In the last episode, Harry must rely on Asta and D&#8217;Arcy for survival.\u00a0 How does that change the dynamics of the characters, and will we see more of this in the second season?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 That&#8217;s a good question.\u00a0 That was in Episode 8, I think\u00a0\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 \u2011\u2011 and in 10 as well.\u00a0 Asta depended on it for survival.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an example of Harry&#8217;s growing emotional state and ability to process human emotions where, in the first season, he learns to love and learns what friendship is and connects him to Asta, which is what ends up saving the human race.\u00a0 I think his journey in Season 2 is, sort of, extending that humanity to people outside of Asta.\u00a0 So, learning empathy and trying to realize that maybe there&#8217;s other people in this world\u00a0\u2011\u2011 at the beginning of it anyway, other people in the world who he can maybe care about as well in addition to Asta.\u00a0 So that definitely continues into the second season, and it is going to be a slow burn.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t want to do it too quickly where, suddenly, he&#8217;s caring about everybody because a lot of the comedy goes away at that point.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not really going to happen until the very end of the series where he, sort of, figured it all out.\u00a0 But, yeah, we are going to continue that.\u00a0 As far as has it changed anything, I don&#8217;t think\u00a0\u2011\u2011 D&#8217;Arcy saving his life I don&#8217;t think really did much for him.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Almost, like, less.\u00a0 I want to hear from Sara because, like, I&#8217;ve seen this\u00a0from what I&#8217;ve seen in their interactions this season, that Sara\u00a0\u2011\u2011 the Asta\u2011Harry connection, it&#8217;s super deep now, and there&#8217;s a familiarity that is familial.\u00a0 I just watch.\u00a0 Like, he is getting to know the world, holding hands with you, and it&#8217;s, like, he has this safety net in you, and it&#8217;s really touching to watch.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 There&#8217;s this really beautiful scene we have together once again in a really cool location where we were looking out over the lake.\u00a0 In Season 1, we are looking out over the mountains while I&#8217;m barefoot in the snow, and in Season 2, it&#8217;s kind of the summer version of that, not quite barefoot but still looking out over a body of water, over the lake.\u00a0 And we have this great conversation about that family is not just who you are blood\u2011related to, but it&#8217;s chosen and that there are people in your lives that you really care for, and you need to figure out who those people are.\u00a0 And it kind of occurs to Asta, after she has a talk with her dad, that she&#8217;s maybe the only one that Harry cares for, and that&#8217;s a lot of responsibility when she&#8217;s got the whole world on her shoulders.\u00a0 So, then she starts, kind of, pushing him out of the nest, which Alice is right.\u00a0 We started having what felt like a mother\u2011son relationship a little bit.\u00a0 She was, like, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to get out there and meet people.&#8221;\u00a0 And she has to have conversations with him, talking to him about his feelings, about pain, about fear, about family.\u00a0 All the while, she&#8217;s still trying to connect with her daughter, and she&#8217;s also still learning about how to ask for help.\u00a0 She&#8217;s going to, you know, without telling any spoilers, end up coming to D&#8217;Arcy for guidance in a way she never has before.\u00a0 So, I think, once again, you are going to see Harry and Asta in this very similar trajectory in Season 2 where they are both still learning how to reach out and ask for help, which is pretty special.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Very well put.\u00a0 Also, I think, in a way, Harry is so childlike.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s, sort of, Asta learning how to be a mother.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 And if she ever comes back around and has a real relationship with Jay, she can take that learning that she&#8217;s gotten from Harry to be a better mother for Jay someday.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 Definitely.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 She will be prepared to change Harry at some point.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 If he needs a change of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 What did you say, Corey?\u00a0 What did you say down there?\u00a0 Can you hear me at the angle you are at?<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 All right.\u00a0 Our next question comes from Janice Malone, and Arlene Martinez will be on deck.\u00a0 Janice, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Hello.\u00a0 This is such a fun show.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so glad to see you guys come back for another season.\u00a0 I&#8217;d just like to ask the entire panel here, has anyone ever, ever had what might be considered a UFO, extra\u2011terrestrial citing, or do you think you&#8217;ve ever met an extra\u2011terrestrial?<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 I&#8217;ve done\u00a0\u2011\u2011 that&#8217;s a question an extra\u2011terrestrial would ask.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Does anybody else have anything?<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 Chris.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 I did see a UFO once.\u00a0 I was on my honeymoon.\u00a0 I was at the beach.\u00a0 I told this before, but I&#8217;ll tell it again.\u00a0 It was 10 o\u2019clock at night in the Bahamas.\u00a0 It was very, very dark.\u00a0 You could see every star in the sky, and suddenly, this star on the horizon started rising up.\u00a0 We looked at it, like, &#8220;Why is that moving?&#8221;\u00a0 And then it came at us, and within two or three seconds, it was above us.\u00a0 It was a triangular shape with, like, six lights on the bottom of it.\u00a0 It was light in the front, and it hit us right in the face.\u00a0 The ship didn&#8217;t hit us.\u00a0 The light hit us.\u00a0 That would be a story.\u00a0 And then it kept going, and that was it.\u00a0 And even in that moment, I&#8217;m, like, &#8220;Did we just see that?&#8221;\u00a0 I made a mental note to not let myself forget the fact that that was real.\u00a0 So, I don&#8217;t know what it was, but it was certainly alien.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 And it made no noise, right?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 It made no noise.\u00a0 It was literally upon us from the horizon to above us in about three seconds.\u00a0 It just moved way faster than anything that we know of as humans on this earth.\u00a0 So that definitely happened to me.\u00a0 And, honestly, doing this show, I&#8217;ve met a lot of people who have come up to me and said, &#8220;You know, I&#8217;ll tell you, I saw this thing.&#8221;\u00a0 A lot of people have seen this stuff, and there&#8217;s starting to be less stigma around it now.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 People are starting to come out with it.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Well, also, the government was, like, &#8220;Yeah, aliens are real.\u00a0 Sorry.&#8221;\u00a0 So that helps.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 I mean, statistically speaking, it is virtually impossible that there isn&#8217;t alien life in the universe.\u00a0 I think the biggest question comes the distance between stars or the distance between space time of getting to a place where they could actually get here or we could go there. \u00a0However, if you are talking about a civilization that might be millions or billions of years older than humanity, who is to say that they haven&#8217;t mastered space time travel, you know.\u00a0 I think you&#8217;d be an idiot to think that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.\u00a0 It&#8217;s stupid to think that.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 We are intelligent?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think we can compare it to the (inaudible) movie when you taught him that (inaudible.)<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 It looks like we have time for one final question, and that is going to come from Arlene Martinez.\u00a0 Arlene, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 No pressure, Arlene.<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 Nice to meet you all.\u00a0 I was just going to ask you about what she just asked you guys about, UFOs, if you guys actually believe in it because I have a husband who is actually in Space Force, and we have arguments every time that we watch shows like this.\u00a0 It&#8217;s, like, &#8220;No, there&#8217;s this.\u00a0 There&#8217;s that.&#8221;\u00a0 And he was actually watching, me with him, this show.\u00a0 He&#8217;s, like, &#8220;Oh, my gosh.\u00a0 So much,&#8221; and, like, &#8220;What do you guys&#8221; \u2011\u2011 you know, he said about his experience, but I know we are not the only ones.\u00a0 That&#8217;s my argument with my husband.\u00a0 But do you actually believe there&#8217;s aliens out there?<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 So, your husband is Space Force and doesn&#8217;t believe in aliens?<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 He always has an explanation for everything.\u00a0 He actually works for space, the government.\u00a0 So, he watches satellites.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 So, he&#8217;s a scientist, essentially?<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 No, I don&#8217;t call him a scientist, but he just watches what happened here if we get missiles, and he just stops the missiles.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s the difference between believing and needing evidence.\u00a0 If you need evidence, it&#8217;s not, like, a believer faith, right?<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION:\u00a0 Uh\u2011huh.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 I, for instance, have never had any alien experience or anything close to an alien experience, but I&#8217;m not closed off to the idea that there are\u00a0\u2011\u2011 I mean, I just know that the more science progresses and the more astronomy progresses and the exploration of physics, the less we know we know of things we thought we knew about.\u00a0 And, so, what&#8217;s the point of saying there&#8217;s no\u00a0\u2011\u2011 there&#8217;s an explanation for everything?\u00a0 I mean, okay.\u00a0 Sure. \u00a0But, like, we don&#8217;t have all of the explanations yet, and that&#8217;s okay.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t mean we are deficient as an intelligent species.\u00a0 It just means where we are.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 Apparently, there are.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 Right now, we are a floating ball in the sky in a galaxy.\u00a0 Do you know what I mean?\u00a0 It&#8217;s freaking crazy.\u00a0 So, I feel like our existence is alien, and maybe there&#8217;s theories, and everybody has their opinions, but nobody knows what we are doing here.\u00a0 So why not?\u00a0 There&#8217;s so many options, so many different stories to listen to.\u00a0 Everybody has a different story to tell, and it doesn&#8217;t mean that we should be pointing fingers and saying, &#8220;No, you are wrong.&#8221;\u00a0 You both are right, you and your husband.\u00a0 And we all have a feeling and a way that we are existing in this world, but I personally think we are all alien.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 If you think about it like this for a second, if you think about, like, the ocean \u2011\u2011 right? \u2011\u2011 to fish, we live in outer space, right?\u00a0 And to fish, sometimes they get caught.\u00a0 And you weigh them, and you measure them and this and that, and then you throw them back into the water.\u00a0 And that fish probably swims down to other fish.\u00a0 He&#8217;s, like, &#8220;Holy shit.\u00a0 You are not going to believe this.\u00a0 I was just abducted by these humans, and they probed me, they measured me, they took my weight, and then they just returned me.&#8221;\u00a0 Like, &#8220;Dude, shut the fuck up.\u00a0 You didn&#8217;t get taken into space or anything like that.&#8221;\u00a0 Do you know what I mean?\u00a0 So, to think that we couldn&#8217;t see that relatively happening to humanity as well like we are in space to fish.\u00a0 Do you know what I&#8217;m saying?\u00a0 We live in an environment that they can&#8217;t breathe in, that they can&#8217;t stay in for any sustained amount of time.\u00a0 To be in this environment, they would need a life\u2011support system.\u00a0 We are in space to them.\u00a0 So, relatively speaking, I have no doubt that there&#8217;s something that comes down here and picks us up and dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, and measures us and probes us and sticks shit in our asses, all of this stuff.\u00a0 And they are just, like, &#8220;Oh, okay.\u00a0 All right.&#8221;\u00a0 And then they just toss them back.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see how that&#8217;s any different.\u00a0 I think, if you use that as a metric, it&#8217;s clear to see that it&#8217;s absolutely possible, not only possible but quite feasible, that something like that happens to humanity.<\/p>\n<p>ALAN TUDYK:\u00a0 I need to get you to stop probing your fish.\u00a0 That seems very invasive and unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Hey, don&#8217;t knock it.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 What did you learn from shoving your hand up that fish&#8217;s ass?<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 Just weigh it and put it back.\u00a0 What are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 Oh, I&#8217;m sorry.\u00a0 If something is in front of me, I&#8217;m going to probe it.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 This hand ain&#8217;t made for probing.\u00a0 Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think we can top that.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 This finger is radicular.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m going to thank all of our guests.<\/p>\n<p>SARA TOMKO:\u00a0 A fish&#8217;s body, a fish&#8217;s choice.&#8217;ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 And you can keep that in.\u00a0 You keep that in.\u00a0 You write that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHERIDAN:\u00a0 It&#8217;s why fish are growing feet on land and fight us.<\/p>\n<p>COREY REYNOLDS:\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 This is the beginning of a giant battle that&#8217;s going to take place and what they feel is an interest, like, in space battle.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got their own Space\u00a0Force.\u00a0 They already have their own opinions about humans.\u00a0 There we go.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW LIFSON:\u00a0 Well, I think we are ending on the highest of notes.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m going to thank the panelists.\u00a0 That concludes the session for &#8220;Resident Alien.&#8221;\u00a0 We will take a short break and pick back up with NCB&#8217;s &#8220;American Auto&#8221; at 10:45.<\/p>\n<p>ALICE WETTERLUND:\u00a0 And I&#8217;m going to be there for that too.\u00a0 See you there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scifivision.com\/interviews\/6454-video-interview-resident-alien-showrunner-chris-sheridan-teases-what-s-to-come-for-season-2\">Scifivision Interview with Chris Sheridan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE INFO:<\/p>\n<div class=\"show-description show-description--full\">\n<div>\n<p>Based on the Dark Horse comics, SYFY\u2019s \u201cResident Alien\u201d follows a crash-landed alien named Harry (Alan Tudyk) whose secret mission is to kill all humans. In season two, Harry is once again stranded on Earth where he must confront the consequences of having failed his people\u2019s mission to destroy the human race. On his new quest to protect the people of Earth, Harry struggles to hold on to his alien identity as his human emotions grow stronger by the day. In an adventure that takes Harry and Asta (Sara Tomko) all the way to New York City, Asta brings Harry into the arms of someone he can call family. While back in Patience, Sheriff Mike (Corey Reynolds) and Deputy Liv (Elizabeth Bowen) find themselves closer to unraveling the mystery of Sam Hodges\u2019s murder. &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221; also stars Alice Wetterlund, Levi Fiehler and Judah Prehn.<\/p>\n<p>From UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with Amblin TV and Dark Horse Entertainment, \u201cResident Alien\u201d was adapted to television by executive producer Chris Sheridan. Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg of Dark Horse Entertainment, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of Amblin TV, Robert Duncan McNeill, Christian Taylor and Nastaran Dibai also executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>From UCP, in association with Amblin TV and Dark Horse Entertainment, RESIDENT ALIEN was adapted to television by executive producer Chris Sheridan (\u201cFamily Guy\u201d). Mike Richardson (\u201cHellboy\u201d) and Keith Goldberg (\u201cThe Legend of Tarzan\u201d) of Dark Horse Entertainment (\u201cThe Umbrella Academy\u201d), and Justin Falvey (\u201cThe Americans\u201d) and Darryl Frank (\u201cThe Americans\u201d) of Amblin TV also executive produce. David Dobkin (\u201cWedding Crashers\u201d) executive produced and directed the pilot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content bios__content\">\n<h3>Alan\u00a0Tudyk<\/h3>\n<h4>Harry Vanderspeigle, &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221;<\/h4>\n<div class=\"bios__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Alan Tudyk stars in SYFY\u2019s \u201cResident Alien\u201d as \u201cHarry Vanderspeigle,\u201d an alien that crash lands onto Earth and must pass himself off as a small-town human doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Emmy nominated Tudyk is a multi-dimensional actor whose credits span throughout stage, film, television and voiceover entertainment platforms.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Tudyk appeared in Lucasfilm\u2019s \u201cRogue One: A Star Wars Story,\u201d as the scene-stealing security droid, \u2018K-2SO.\u2019 Directed by Gareth Edwards, the film grossed over $1 billion at the global box office and was the first live action Star Wars spin-off. He also voiced characters in two Academy-Award nominated animated films, playing the \u2018Duke of Weaselton\u2019 in Disney\u2019s \u201cZootopia\u201d and the rooster \u2018Hei Hei\u2019 in Disney\u2019s \u201cMoana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tudyk is also the creator, executive producer and star of the Emmy nominated series \u201cCon Man,\u201d which was funded via Indiegogo with a record-breaking $3.2 million donation from over 46,000 fans. \u201cCon Man&#8221; debuted at Lionsgate\u2019s Comic Con HQ in 2015 and later aired on SYFY. Loosely based on Tudyk and Nathan Fillion\u2019s experiences starring in \u201cFirefly,\u201d \u201cCon Man\u201d centered on the post-show life of \u2018Wray Nerely\u2019 (Tudyk) after \u201cSpectrum,\u201d a sci-fi TV series canceled before its time that later became a cult classic. In 2016, Tudyk, along with Fillion, also launched \u201cCon Man: The Game\u201d based on the series which allowed players to build and host their own comic book conventions.<\/p>\n<p>Tudyk has shown audiences wide versatility in numerous television shows and a plethora of feature films. Recently, he co-starred in the Jay Roach 2015 SAG Award nominated feature \u201cTrumbo,\u201d opposite Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren and John Goodman as well as 2014\u2019s \u201cWelcome to Me\u201d with Kristin Wiig. In 2013, Tudyk co-starred in the well-received Jackie Robinson biopic, \u201c42,\u201d opposite Chadwick Boseman as former Philadelphia Phillies manager \u2018Ben Chapman.\u2019 He made his feature film debut in 1998, when he first appeared opposite Robin Williams in \u201cPatch Adams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tudyk\u2019s role in the Disney animated feature, \u201cWreck-It Ralph,\u201d garnered him an Annie Award for his role as \u2018King Candy.\u201d He can also be heard in its sequel, \u201cRalph Breaks the Internet\u201d as \u2018KnowsMore.\u201d Tudyk has also loaned his voice to \u2018The Duke of Weaselton\u2019 in Disney\u2019s Academy Award-winning film \u201cFrozen,\u201d \u2018Alister Krei\u2019 in \u201cBig Hero 6\u201d and \u2018Ludo\u2019 and \u2018King Butterfly\u2019 on the Disney Channel series, \u201cStar vs. the Forces of Evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His additional film credits also include: \u201c28 Days,\u201d \u201cA Knight\u2019s Tale,\u201d \u201cDodgeball: A True Underdog Story,\u201d \u201cDeath at a Funeral\u201d (the original UK version), \u201cKnocked Up,\u201d \u201cTucker and Dale vs Evil,\u201d \u201c3:10 to Yuma,\u201d \u201cSerenity,\u201d \u201cPremature,\u201d \u201cAbraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter\u201d and \u201cTransformers 3.\u201d Additionally, Tudyk motion performed the lead robot, \u2018Sonny,\u2019 in \u201cI, Robot\u201d opposite Will Smith.<\/p>\n<p>In television, Tudyk can currently be seen in DC Universe\u2019s \u201cDoom Patrol\u201d and season three of Netflix\u2019s \u201cSanta Clarita Diet.\u201d He was a series regular on the critically acclaimed ABC comedy, \u201cSuburgatory\u201d as well as on NBC\u2019s workplace comedy \u201cPowerless\u201d and BBC America\u2019s \u201cDirk Gently\u2019s Holistic Detective Agency. His work on Joss Whedon\u2019s \u201cFirefly,\u201d has been highly lauded by fans and has gained him a strong cult following. Tudyk also appeared in \u201cStrangers with Candy,\u201d \u201cDollhouse,\u201d \u201cFrasier,\u201d \u201cJustified\u201d and \u201cArrested Development.\u201d He also was the host of \u201cNewsreaders,\u201d written and produced by Rob Corddry and David Wain, on Adult Swim.<\/p>\n<p>Tudyk attended the prestigious Juilliard School in New York and has starred on Broadway opposite Kristin Chenoweth in \u201cEpic Proportions,\u201d played \u2018Lancelot\u2019 with the original cast in Monty Python\u2019s \u201cSpamalot,\u201d as well as the lead role of \u2018Peter\u2019 in \u201cPrelude to a Kiss\u201d opposite John Mahoney.<\/p>\n<p>Tudyk grew up in Plano, Texas and currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>He is represented by The Coronel Group and Gersh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"content bios__content\">\n<h3>Sara\u00a0Tomko<\/h3>\n<h4>Asta Twelvetrees, &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221;<\/h4>\n<div class=\"bios__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Sara Tomko stars in SYFY\u2019s \u201cResident Alien\u201d as Asta Twelvetrees. Strong and sarcastic, she works with Harry at the town\u2019s health clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Tomko is known for her recurring roles on \u201cSneaky Pete\u201d and \u201cOnce Upon a Time,\u201d as well as her appearances on \u201cThe Leftovers\u201d and \u201cThe Son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She started her career in experimental theatre and musicals in Virginia, later moving to Los Angeles in 2007 to pursue film. Her first independent film roles aired on SYFY, and she is thrilled that her TV career has brought her full circle. She is an actor, singer, producer, poet an artist.<\/p>\n<p>Tomko is represented by Bohemia Group and KMR Talent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content bios__content\">\n<h3>Corey\u00a0Reynolds<\/h3>\n<h4>Sheriff Mike Thompson, &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221;<\/h4>\n<div class=\"bios__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Corey Reynolds stars in SYFY\u2019s \u201cResident Alien\u201d as Mike Thompson, the local sheriff who runs the town with a chip on his shoulder, a cowboy hat on his head and an iron fist.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds is best known for his role on \u201cThe Closer,\u201d which he starred on for six seasons. He will next be seen in the \u201cRedline\u201d and \u201cCriminal Minds.\u201d He recurred on \u201cNCIS: Los Angeles,\u201d \u201cMasters of Sex\u201d and \u201cMurder in the First.\u201d He has guest starred on \u201cSeal Team,\u201d \u201cChicago PD\u201d and \u201cCriminal Minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the film side, he was last seen on screen in \u201cStraight Outta Compton.\u201d He can also be seen in the \u201cSelma,\u201d opposite David Oyelowo and Common.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as \u2018Seaweed\u2019 in Broadway\u2019s production of \u201cHairspray.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"content bios__content\">\n<h3>Alice\u00a0Wetterlund<\/h3>\n<h4>D\u2019Arcy Bloom, &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221;<\/h4>\n<div class=\"bios__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Alice Wetterlund stars in SYFY\u2019s \u201cResident Alien\u201d as \u201cD\u2019Arcy Bloom,\u201d the charismatic bartender at the local pub who, as a former Olympic snowboarder, is also a part of the avalanche control team.<\/p>\n<p>Wetterlund has performed her non-yelling brand of comedy nationally at colleges, clubs, and festivals such as Just for Laughs, Bridgetown, Moon Tower, Women in Comedy, SF Sketchfest, RIOT LA, Bonnaroo and more.<\/p>\n<p>She is known for her character \u201cCarla\u201d on HBO\u2019s \u201cSilicon Valley\u201d and played \u201cKelly Grady\u201d on TBS\u2019 \u201cPeople of Earth.\u201d She can also be seen in the movie \u201cMike and Dave Need Wedding Dates\u201d as \u201cCousin Terry.\u201d She has performed her stand up on \u201cConan\u201d and currently co-hosts the popular podcast \u201cTreks and the City\u201d with Veronica Osorio. She recently wrapped \u201cSearch &amp; Destroy\u201d for Hulu, produced by Carrie Brownstein. Wetterlund can currently be seen on the latest season of Netflix\u2019s \u201cGlow.\u201d Her hourlong stand-up special premiered on Amazon in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"content bios__content\">\n<h3>Chris\u00a0Sheridan<\/h3>\n<h4>Executive Producer, &#8220;Resident Alien&#8221;<\/h4>\n<div class=\"bios__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Chris Sheridan serves as executive producer of SYFY\u2019s \u201cResident Alien.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five-time Emmy nominee and BAFTA nominee, Sheridan has been a television writer and producer for 26 years. He has produced more than 400 episodes of television, including 17 seasons on the Fox Network animated hit, \u201cFamily Guy\u201d where he acted as co-showrunner from 2004 to 2009. He remains a consulting producer on \u201cFamily Guy,\u201d and has a feature film in development with Josephson Entertainment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Proofread and Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biobrenda\/\">Brenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/interviews\/\">Back to the Primetime Articles and Interviews Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21458\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/raposter.png\" alt=\"Resident Alien poster\" width=\"272\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/raposter.png 272w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/raposter-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Interview! 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