Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara on Their Lockdown-Inspired ‘Black Mirror’ and Why It’s Set in an Alternate 1969

The co-stars of the "Beyond the Sea" episode unpack the themes revealed in the space story and share their feelings on that ending with The Hollywood Reporter.

By Jackie Strause - June 16, 2023 5:20am

Charlie Brooker warned that some of the season six Black Mirror episodes were going to be the bleakest yet. And “Beyond the Sea,” starring the trio of Aaron Paul, Josh Hartnett and Kate Mara, certainly fits that bill.

In the 80-minute space saga, Paul and Hartnett play astronauts aboard a spaceship on a six-year mission. The episode, however, takes place in an alternative 1969 where technology exists so the astronauts can beam their consciousness back down to Earth via a space-travel link and walk among their families as a mechanical replica while their real bodies sleep in a spacepod.

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