Black Mirror’s Jimmi Simpson Is Completely Up for Extra ‘USS Callister’

Black Mirror followers felt pleasure and pleasure—unfamiliar feelings to affiliate with the dystopian collection, to be trustworthy—upon studying that the present’s seventh season would come with a sequel to season 4’s “USS Callister.” Now that “USS Callister: Into Infinity” has hit Netflix, placing its forged of people and digital-clones-trapped-in-a-video-game by way of a brand new high-stakes journey, the query has now turn out to be: will there be a third installment for “Callister” followers?

Jimmi Simpson, who performs Walton—a personality who’s both odious or courageous, relying on which model you meet—is 100% obsessed with one other return.

“I might maintain the increase mic for [Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker] if he needed me to,” he instructed the Hollywood Reporter in a brand new interview. “I’m in, no matter that’s.”

Simpson additionally already has an concept about which character he’d prefer to see the subsequent “Callister” discover: programmer Dudani, who’s heroic within the sport however considerably morally corruptible in the actual world. “I need to know extra about Dudani,” Simpson mentioned. “Paul [G. Raymond], the actor who performs him, is de facto, actually gifted. I can’t wait to see that character blossom. I really feel like that’s the subsequent one that can actually come to life.”

The ending of “Into Infinity,” which sees all of the digital clones turn out to be trapped contained in the mind of Nanette (Cristin Milioti), definitely leaves extra runway to broaden the story. “This ending does throw into query a complete lot of shit long-term for the existence of those folks,” Simpson mentioned. “However I believe it additionally is ideal not solely in Black Mirror world but additionally in our world. It says, ‘Okay, so that you had been sad with that? How about this? Now, what do you suppose? Determine it out!’”

“There are loads of unanswered questions, and that’s the subsequent step. They stepped exterior of this imminent hazard and what they’ve now’s one another, actually in a deeper method. And there’s stuff to discover there. Clearly, we all know with personalities compelled into this area, there’s going to be some wild shit. However I actually respect this ending very a lot, and I take pleasure in it.”

Brooker has said he’s contemplating extra Black Mirror sequel episodes, so we could but study what’s subsequent for Walton and his mates and frenemies. For now, you possibly can stream Black Mirror seasons 1-7 on Netflix.

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