The veteran actor has a lot of thoughts about the growth of his character and the dangers of idol worship in Season 2.
The Big Picture This interview was conducted before the ongoing SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes. Apple TV+'s Foundation, the streamer's science fiction gem of a show, just wrapped up its second season in explosive fashion that may just been predicted by the enigmatic Hari Seldon. Played by the singular Jared Harris, he has been through quite a lot having gone from being seemingly very dead to a driving force of this season.
JARED HARRIS: The things that resonated with me when I was younger were the Greek myths. I read all of them. I read Homer's The Odyssey. I'm fascinated by that. I studied classical Greek civilization, and so I was fascinated by that and fascinated by all those wonderful stories, so I would say that would be my foundation for storytelling.
HARRIS: No, that wasn't in any of our conversations, that particular aspect of the journey. Although I think in the original script, there was the idea that you discovered him in that world for, like, one page or something. But that experience of being trapped in that limbo, if you like, for 130 years would have had such a damaging effect on his psyche that I wanted to explore it, and Alex [Graves] wanted to explore it.
HARRIS: That's the idea that it's a dangerous thing to be worshiped, and that version of the character probably starts to enjoy it, which is not a good thing, but he understood that it was a necessary phase. It was going to inevitably happen that the society that's on Terminus is going to create some sort of a religion.
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