Jennifer Connelly On How ‘Dark Matter’ is a Love Story and Why Fans Still Adore ‘Labyrinth’
variety.comJenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor he new Apple TV+ series “Dark Matter” centers on a man who discovers alternate universes populated by other versions of himself.
In other words, it’s a twisty sci-fi mind-bender. But not if you’re its star, Jennifer Connelly, who saw the show as a love story. “It was kind of an ode to a marriage,” she says. “It’s told through this device of alternate realities, which is a fun idea, but it’s really an exploration of a couple.
And I enjoyed that.” In the nine-part series, debuting May 8, Connelly portrays Daniela Dessen, a once-promising artist who chose instead to start a family with her husband, Jason (Joel Edgerton).
What Daniela doesn’t know is that her Jason has been replaced by a Jason from another reality who regrets put- ting work before love years earlier.
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