We all love the show, we love the stories and we all come from incredibly diverse and different lives and backgrounds. We love each other, we all respect each other and we all have a common goal. There’s no two people in there that are even remotely similar. Between me and Wes and Dominique, and Steven and Frankie and Shohreh, it’s like a smorgasbord of life. We’re all so different and it’s trying to figure out how we all fit together on set and off set, so yeah, that whole journey…when we go out to dinner, it’s really like the Roci crew going out to dinner, the personalities around that table are quite extreme. I really enjoy that.īT: What can you say about the journey so far?ĬA: The rest of the actors on the team, especially the Rocinante crew, we have become incredibly close. I really like that aspect of Alex because everyone else, when they’re all panicked and freaking out, he’s trying to keep the team together, he’s trying to keep the calm and he’s trying to get the emotions out of the situation. There could be a nuclear bomb going off over here and there could be like aliens over there, and it’s just like business as usual. It’s never that big of a deal for a Texan. They’ll have an expression and a witticism for every situation that is just designed to take the steam out of things, to kind of calm things down.
Stressful events and circumstances are handled in a very different way by someone who comes from the South. So that was a fun aspect of the character that I really loved because it’s a whole perspective, Texas and the South of the United States. So even though he’s Pakistani genetically, his culture is influenced by the Texans that landed in the Mariner Valley where he lives. So those few cultures and races are of what Alex Kamal is a fusion. It’s very similar to the Wild West of the United States. It’s an accent that comes easily to me and the character of Alex Kamal, he’s born on Mars, and the creators have decided that the Martians are, the first colonists from Mars are from East Asia, Asia and Texas, because they figured those are the people who are going to be able to create a new community, a new culture, a new world and conquer that hostile territory.
#Alex expanse driver#
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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