
Tomorrow Syfy's new series
Dark Matter premieres. The series follows the crew of a derelict spacecraft after they awaken from stasis with no memories. As they have no memories of even their names, the crew name themselves by number, in the order they awoke (and also use nicknames at times). One aka Pretty Boy (Marc Bendavid), Two aka Boss Lady (Melissa O'Neil), Three aka Sunshine (Anthony Lemke), Four aka Slashy McStabberson (Alex Mallari Jr.), Five aka Kid (Jodelle Ferland), and Six aka Tiny (Roger Cross). The crew members, along with the ship's android (Zoie Palmer), must work together to find answers as they face threats along the way.
Stars Bendavid, O'Neil, and Lemke, along with executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, recently talked to the media about the new series.
The actors talked to SciFi Vision about not knowing everything about their characters ahead of time and learning along with them. O'Neil embraced that aspect. "I actually loved it. Being a first-time performer on television, I didn't really know what to expect, and I thought that it was such a lovely thing to encounter, that we were going through what our characters were going through. At the same time, we were discovering what was happening and how to interact with each other in the exact way that our characters would be doing it. We were just piecing it together as it came to us. But I think that there is a great bit of truth that's happening on screen, that we've all done our homework to prepare our characters as much as we could. There is honesty that's happening there as we navigate that."