In Roland Emmerich's Moonfall, a mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course for Earth. With the world on the brink of annihilation, it's down to three unlikely heroes to mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space to make things right. However, it's then they find out that our moon isn't quite what we think it is.
Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and John Bradley are the trio that finds themselves tasked with saving the planet, and we were fortunate enough to recently catch up with the latter to discuss his role as conspiracy theorist KC Houseman. With that in mind, we kicked off our chat off by asking the Game of Thrones alum what it was like to get into the mind of a quirky character like this one.
From there, Bradley talks about some of the crazy stunts he had to pull off in Moonfall, the challenges of creating chemistry with his co-stars in the midst of a pandemic, and going from fantasy to sci-fi.
The actor also weighs in on the possibility of reuniting with Kit Hartington in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As you'll see in our exclusive video interview, he'd love to share the screen with any of his old Game of Thrones pals and is open to sharing the screen with Harington's Dane Whitman/Black Knight.
After watching the film and your performance, I’m curious: what did you enjoy most about playing a conspiracy theorist like KC and did your preparation and research take you to any particularly weird corners of the internet?
It’s funny, isn’t it? Up until a couple of years ago, you probably would have had to do quite a lot of digging to find out about conspiracy theorists and what they are and what they do. But nowadays, conspiracy theories are so much part of the mainstream and so much part of popular discourse, they just seem to be everywhere anyway. The thing about K.C. is he’s right. He’s scientifically proven to be right and that was the joy of playing that character. The moment where all of that study and obsession he’s had with people rejecting him and saying he’s crazy, the minute that he finds out he was right and the minute Brian Harper, an actual astronaut says to him ‘You’re not crazy. You’re right about all of this. This wasn’t a waste of time.’ That was all his Christmases come at once. It’s the only thing he’s wanted to hear his whole life. That moment of validation and acceptance. It’s a beautiful human moment for K.C., I think.
Make sure and check out the full video interview over on CBM!
Moonfall is set to be released exclusively in theaters on February 4.