Tim Robbins says audiences relate to ‘oppressiveness of Silo’ following pandemic

Oscar-winning histrion Tim Robbins said dystopian TV bid Silo was an instant deed due to the fact that audiences “saw their ain world reflected” successful the amusement pursuing the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent lockdowns.

The amusement is based connected the post-apocalyptic subject fabrication books by US writer Hugh Howey, featuring the past 10,000 radical connected world who travel strict rules and regulations believed to support them portion surviving successful the Silo, a self-sustaining subterranean metropolis a mile deep.

The sci-fi thriller volition instrumentality for a 10-part bid connected Apple TV+ from November 15, featuring protagonist Rebecca Ferguson arsenic an technologist named Juliette Nichols who is determined to get answers astir the Silo.

Robbins appeared astatine the satellite premiere of the 2nd play successful London, alongside stars Common, Chinaza Uche, Shane McRae, Remmie Milner, Billy Postlethwaite and Iain Glen.

Reprising his relation arsenic antagonist and caput of Silo’s IT section Bernard Holland successful the caller series, Robbins told the PA quality agency: “I deliberation the crushed it has caught connected is due to the fact that it’s speaking to today, adjacent though it’s a dystopia successful the future.

“I deliberation audiences are seeing a batch of similarity betwixt the oppressiveness of the Silo, the lockdown, the power of information, the power of history, each of these things are concerns for america present – peculiarly successful caller past erstwhile radical mislaid their idiosyncratic freedom.”

The 66-year-old said audiences responded to the archetypal play “because I deliberation they saw their ain world reflected successful this dystopian future”.

“They saw a satellite wherever accusation was controlled, dissent was censored and question was limited, immoderate of that dependable familiar?” helium said, referencing the 2020 pandemic.

Fellow Oscar victor Common, existent sanction Lonnie Lynn, said the storyline resonated with him “because it makes maine deliberation astir however overmuch we judge what we’re told… and we don’t instrumentality clip to deliberation astir what truly sits and sticks and is and what is true”.

“It’s conscionable a reminder that arsenic people, we are present together, but we person to find our quest individually, to find what our information is, what our intent is, and past connection that to the satellite and togetherness.”

At the premiere, respective stars including McRae hinted that determination volition beryllium a “big revolution” successful the upcoming show.