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‘3 Body Problem’ Cast Explain What You Need to Know About the Show and Their Characters

Variety sat down with nine cast members from '3 Body Problem' to introduce audiences to the Netflix sci-fi series.

With Cixin’s blessing, creators and executive producers and David Benioff and D. B. Weiss (“Game of Thrones”) and Alexander Woo (“True Blood,” “The Terror”) expanded the wildly ambitious story from China to an international cast of actors from Australia, London, Mexico and the U.S. In the present day timeline of “3 Body Problem,” the world’s top physicists are not only befuddled but driven mad by inexplicable scientific phenomena, kicking off an investigation that leads to one woman’s decision made in the wake of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. You have to unlearn a lot of those barriers that you’ve put in place and contact a slightly childlike side of your imagination, and just get rid of all your psychological blocks and your self-consciousness and just give yourself over to it.

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