Marvel LIVE! at NYCC 2016 Part 2

Legion Press | New York Comic Con 2016

October 9, 2016

Stars Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, and Rachel Keller join Executive Producer and creator Noah Hawley to tease what's in store for "Legion" when it debuts on FX in January 2017!

[Archived Copy]

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Buddy Blake:  Marvel.com here with the cast and creative mind behind Legion.  Welcome to New York Comic Con.  How are you doing today?

Dan Stevens:  Thank you.

Noah Hawley:  We’re having a good time.  We’re, we’re a little blown away by the size of it.

Dan Stevens:  Yeah.

Buddy Blake:  I assume you just got to the convention, right?  You haven’t really done anything.

Dan Stevens:  We just arrived.  I’ve had my second coffee of the day.  After three I’ll, I’ll know what’s going on.

Aubrey Plaza:  Yeah.

Buddy Blake:  And you have, so, a panel and a signing, I believe, right?

Dan Stevens:  Yeah, and we’re screening the first … sss… some minutes.  Is that, is that exclusive news?

Noah Hawley:  It might be.

Dan Stevens:  You heard it here first.  We’re going to screen something.

Noah Hawley:  Something.  People are going to see something.

Dan Stevens:  I don’t know.  It might be Fargo 3, I don’t know.

Noah Hawley:  We can’t show up empty-handed.  Uh, yeah, we’re going to have fun.  We’re going to show people.  Uh, I think it’s a big mystery, this show, and, you know, that works to some degree.  But you’ve got to get people excited, so…

Billy Blake:  I mean, Marvel, everything attached to Marvel is very hush-hush.  So what can you guys say about the show without getting in trouble?

Noah Hawley:  It is a show.  We can say that.  Uh, no I think, I think, you know it fits, it both fits very well into the X-men universe and is something very different.  I mean, if you define the X-men as a show about a group of outsiders who have been defined one way by society and have to redefine themselves, then this show is very much in that world.

Buddy Blake:  How much of the subject matter did you guys delve into from the comics?

Noah Hawley:  Well the comics were a good jumping off point, you know.  But my approach was as it was with Fargo, which is to say I love this world, and with all due respect, I just want to tell my own story and use the inspiration of the characters and that idea about, uh, outsiderness to sort of, to find my way to the story that feels like an X-men story to me.

Billy Blake:  Can you guys talk a little bit about all your characters?

Aubrey Plaza:  (Blake and Dan offer their microphones to Aubrey and she grabs both) Can I get both of them?

Dan Stevens:  Yeah.

Aubrey Plaza:  Umm, I play a character named Lenny.  And that’s pretty much all I can say about that.

Dan Stevens:  Really?  Is that all you’re gonna say?  Who do you play Rachel?

Rachel Keller:  I play Syd, uh, Barret.  She, uh, begins with David in the mental hospital and…

Dan Stevens:  We can say that, right?

Rachel Keller:  And they sort of journey from there together.

Dan Stevens:  And I play David, uh, who is very much in love with Syd in the mental hospital and uh, yeah, David is Legion, I guess.  I mean, Legion is a collective as well as an individual.  Umm, and, yeah, it’s one of the most fascinating, wildest shows I’ve ever read.  It’s really exciting.

Billy Blake:  So lets get real for a second.  Lets talk about the haircut game of your characters.

Dan Stevens:  Hahaha  Yeah, we’re working up to that.  I mean the hair is very important to David.  I mean, I think it is fair to say that, right?  But we don’t go for the, the Slim Jim hair straightaway.  We’re kind-of, we’re working up to that I think.

Noah hawley:  Yeah.  This show definitely has a sort of design aesthetic.  Uh, like 60s cool britannia design aesthetic.  And, uh, you know?  I feel like you cant, you can’t start at the end, right?  You gotta get your way there, so, uh, you know everyone has a very distinctive look that I think is part of building the mythology.

Billy Blake:  Have you guys ever played any superhero-type characters in the past, or..?

Aubrey Plaza:  Umm, no.

Dan Stevens:  I, I mean, I don’t know.

Rachel Keller:  On your own time?

Billy Blake:  In your own time.  Yeah, your free time, or…

Rachel Keller:  Sometimes.

Dan Stevens:  You’re your like, your own superhero.  I don’t know.  Sir Lancelot thought he was a superhero.  Beast is kind-of a hairy hero.

Billy Blake:  So finally, how can fans watch Legion on FX?

Noah Hawley:  Uh, they can either watch live on the network.  I’m sure it’s on FX.com as well when it premieres.  It’s going to premiere day and date 122 countries around the world, so you won’t be able to avoid watching it is my hope.

Rachel Keller:  122 countries?

Dan Stevens:  There are 122 countries.

Rachel Keller:  There are?  What?

Dan Stevens:  (with a French accent) Legión it’s called, in most countries, I think.

Billy Blake:  Well thanks so much guys.  I’m really looking forward to the show.