Station Eleven Interview: Mackenzie Davis Says The HBO Max Series Is Not About a Pandemic

Mackenzie Davis has been a favorite for a good while now, but it’s especially exciting to see her filmography continue to grow with such a wide variety of projects, working with some of the most striking voices in the industry. Now that resume grows with HBO Max’s extremely stirring adaption of Emily St. John Mandel’s novel, Station Eleven, from showrunner Patrick Somerville with episodes directed by Hiro Murai, Jeremy Podeswa, Helen Shaver and Lucy Tcherniak. The story begins with the world on the cusp of a significant flu outbreak. The pandemic devastates civilization, completely obliterating the technology we rely on and our way of life in general. Twenty years in the future, Davis’ character, Kirsten, is part of the Traveling Symphony, a group of actors and musicians who travel the region performing Shakespeare for various communities. Even though the group seems to have found great purpose in this new world, an unexpected encounter challenges them to reconsider what to hold onto from the path and how best to create a new future. With Station Eleven in the midst of its rollout on HBO Max, Davis joined us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night to talk about the mini-series and also to revisit the path she took to get there. Hear all about Davis' experience booking Drake Doremus' Breathe In, working with Ridley Scott on The Martian, making Station Eleven and so much more in this video! Listen to the 45-minute conversation uncut here: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/coll... 00:00 Dicey Questions 02:06 Traveling Symphony but with The Simpsons 04:10 Drama School 04:59 Booking Her First Film 06:12 Getting an Agent 08:26 The Martian with Ridley Scott 10:05 Working with Less Ideal Collaborators 11:38 Station Eleven #StationEleven #MackenzieDavis #TheMartian BREAKING NEWS, REVIEWS & MORE: https://collider.com SUBSCRIBE:    / collider   FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL   / collider     / collider     / collider