Actor Shazad Latif has an extended historical past of taking part in characters at battle with themselves. He portrayed essentially the most archetypal instance of inside battle, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, on Penny Dreadful; a Klingon sleeper agent on Star Trek: Discovery; and can quickly be taking part in an Indian Prince who takes the title Nemo as he embarks on a quest for vengeance in Nautilusa reimagining of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Underneath the Sea premiering on AMC and AMC Plus on June 29.
“Perhaps it’s as a result of I had a traumatic childhood,” Latif instructed Polygon over Zoom with amusing. “I feel it’s straightforward for me to reflect. I’m half English-Scottish, half Pakistani. I’ve all the time kind of been on the peripherals in each worlds, but additionally very a lot concerned in them. That feeling of being an outsider all the time lets me join to those sorts of characters which have a twin feeling about them. They all the time appear to be pretty indignant, (and) my dad was very indignant, so I can faucet into that.”
Whereas the feelings could come straightforward, preserving monitor of the plots could be a problem. That was very true in Star Trek: Discoverythe place Latif performed the Klingon spy Voq, the seemingly human safety chief Ash Tyler, and Voq’s counterpart within the Mirror Universe.
“It was lots to get your head round,” Latif stated. “You’re like, ‘Wait, am I doing one other model? Is he talking Klingon? Is he talking English? What’s occurring?’ Nevertheless it was nice to play a sleeper agent who will get amnesia and PTSD. There was a lot in that first season to discover. I’ll always remember that complete journey in area that I had.”
Having starred in probably the most fashionable science fiction franchises and two exhibits set in fantastical variations of the nineteenth century, Latif is raring to discover much more genres. Subsequent 12 months he’ll seem alongside Margot Robbie in an adaptation of Emily Brontë Gothic tragedy Wuthering Heights.
“I’m a giant self-proclaimed film nerd,” he stated. “I really like all the pieces. I really like comedy. I really like romantic comedy. I really like dramas. I really like household dramas. I really like interval items. I need to do all of it. I need to do all the pieces I can do.”
