While some members of the new HBO limited series “Chernobyl” cast plays composite characters, a surprising number portray real people.
HBO’s new five-episode series Chernobyl depicts the circumstances surrounding the worst nuclear catastrophe of the 20th century. When reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station went critical on April 26, 1986, the resulting explosion spewed radioactive material all over the facility and across the Ukrainain border into Belarus. More than 100,000 people were evacuated in the following days, as first responders fought fires, sometimes absorbing fatal doses of radiation in the process.
Legasov committed suicide two years after the Chernobyl disaster—a 1993 article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists attributed his death to disillusionment over “the Soviet failure to confront the flaws” in their reactors. In 1996, he was posthumously awarded Hero of the Russian Federation by President Boris Yeltsin.Where Legasov is the principled scientist, Skargard’s character, the real-life Deputy Prime Minister Scherbina, represents the reluctant Soviet government.
After the explosion, Akimov continued to disbelieve reports of the extent of the damage and continued to insist the reactor was intact, relaying false information for hours. But while many mistakes were made, both in the lead-up to the test and in the aftermath, Akimov and Toptunov bravely stayed behind and worked for hours to try and pump water into the reactor room to cool it. Both subsequently died of radiation poisoning.
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