For the past seven years, showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have dedicated their professional lives to “Westworld,” HBO’s sprawling and cerebral sci-fi series loosely based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 movie.
In the story, a race of artificially intelligent robots in the not-too-distant future violently rises up against the humans who’ve used and abused them for sport.
So one might expect the couple — who’ve been married since 2009 — to share an aversion to allowing any manner of automation into their home.
Apparently not. “We have some Roombas,” Joy says with a smile, considering the self-guided vacuums. “Roombas are adorable. I mean, I always want to put little ears on them.” Sitting next to her in the modern Hollywood offices of
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