The glorified bus driver evolved!īT: Is it difficult to do the Texan accent?ĬA: *laughs* It actually wasn’t that hard for me. I realized that this is what I was going to do, what he was meant to be.
That’s the most important thing to him, that and the Roci, which galvanizes his identity, he really didn’t know who he was until he got into that pilot seat. Alex, that’s the only thing that’s worked for him – this new family. They’re all worried about their own personal stories or the love affair of Holden and Naomi or Amos looking for his destiny and his journey. The rest of the crew’s damage and baggage kind of doesn’t allow them to think of the family and keep the family together. Because nobody else on the Roci is thinking about the group dynamic.Įveryone’s worried about their own story, their own tragedy, they all have incredibly broken, fractured paths, we’re all busted up in some way. When things are falling apart emotionally on the Roci, he’s the one that has to step in. He’s kind of a blend of Han Solo and Wash from Firefly. He’s a bit of a swashbuckler, he’s a bit of a showoff, he’s a bit introverted, he’s reserved, he hangs back, he’s a wisecracker, but he’s very emotional as well, in the same way Wash was, and he’s very much the glue that keeps the family together. The following is an abbreviated and edited version of our captivating interview.īrief Take: I read that you’re a fan of both Star Trek and Star Wars.īT: Do you see elements of Han Solo or Jean-Luc Picard in Alex?ĬA: I think Alex has got a little Han in him. What we instead focused upon in our chat with the talented actor was the journey that had led The Expanse to become the genre-bending show that it is today. Though we have seen the first episode of Season 3 of The Expanse, we don’t want to reveal any spoilers, but let’s just say that Anvar has a goosebump-inducing monologue that is going to open up layers of his character. Anvar was smartly dressed in a suit and vest and was on his way back to Los Angeles that day. We met last week in the lobby of a downtown Toronto television studio and walked over to a nearby coffee shop in a blizzard. Cas Anvar is a fascinating character study.
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