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Alex Sharp Reveals Why ‘3 Body Problem’ Changed His Concept Of Mortality: “It Was The Most Challenging Thing I’ve Ever Done On Screen”


Alex Sharp Reveals Why '3 Body Problem' Changed His Concept Of Mortality: "It Was The Most Challenging Thing I've Ever Done On Screen"

In Netflix sci-fi epic series 3 Body Problem, British actor Alex Sharp stars as Will Downing, a terminally-ill scientist who not only manages profound romantic heartbreak, but ultimately transcends the limits of human existence. Plucked straight out of Julliard to play the lead character of Christopher Boone in the Marianne Elliott-directed stage production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sharpe won a Tony for the role. Here, Sharp explains how he leaned into the challenge of 3 Body Problem, inhabiting a man facing his untimely death in the midst of mind-melting otherworldy events, in a role that he says completely changed his life.

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