US EditionSimu Liu: 'Copenhagen Test' challenged physicality
Simu Liu plays an intelligence analyst whose hacked brain forces him into field work, showcasing his physicality as he battles covert operatives in a complex espionage thriller.
- Dec. 26: Simu Liu stars in The Copenhagen Test, premiering Saturday on Peacock, as Alexander Hale, an intelligence analyst whose perceptions are hacked and streamed to unknown parties.
- By revisiting scenes from new angles, Thomas Brandon, creator, said, `Then we understood more about those characters and what they wanted and where they were going` and `So because we had that clarity, we were able to build an arc that was fireproof.`
- Physical demands challenged Simu Liu, who said in a UPI Zoom interview that `Alexander comes from a much more brutal and much more realistic place`, shaped by his ex-Green Beret past.
- Some threats come from inside The Orphanage, with Melissa Barrera, actor posing as a bartender briefed to endear herself to Hale soon, while Sinclair Daniel, actor is an operative behind orchestrations.
- Thematically, the series examines surveillance and AI, probing these themes through its brain-hack conceit across an eight-episode season that hints at smarter structural tricks and a possible follow-up.
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