‘Dark Matter’s’ Dayo Okeniyi Calls The Show Better Than The Book

Have you ever watched Darkish Matter on AppleTV+?

Followers of sci-fi will love the Apple TV+ collection which stars Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly Oakes Fegley, Dayo Okeniyi, and extra. The present is a few man who’s kidnapped into an alternate model of his life. Our Sr. Content material Director Janeé Bolden interviewed Dayo Okeniyi who takes on the position of Leighton Vance within the present.

It seems that Okeniyi had already learn and cherished the Blake Crouch novel that the collection is tailored from when he was solid within the position, and whereas he is a big fan of the guide, he says he believes the present is definitely an improved model.

“I used to be an enormous fan of the guide and truthfully I used to be most nervous as a result of my character within the guide isn’t totally fleshed out,” Okeniyi instructed BOSSIP. “Lots of the additions that we’re doing to Season 2 is absolutely beefing up that Leighton character and utilizing him as a cog within the story, establishing issues that hopefully we are able to repay if we get to do extra installments of the present, so I used to be like, ‘Ohh man audiences are simply going to need us to do the guide — like, ‘What’s all this different stuff we’re doing with Leighton?’ I simply didn’t need to be that storyline the place they go, ‘Can we get again to Jason?’ They have been actually responding to what was taking place and I believe Blake simply actually caught the touchdown. I believe that is actually a type of few variations the place it’s simply pretty much as good, if not barely higher than the guide and Blake would agree with this. He stated it lots. All of the loopholes, all of the plot holes, he sourced the Web from when the guide was launched till now. So thanks for pointing them out so he may appropriate all these on the present. I’m genuinely happy with this and I truthfully can’t imagine I’m a part of this. I don’t know any time in my profession the place I’ve learn one thing as a fan, by myself, not for analysis after which discovered myself in in that world.”

As Jason and Amanda enter the field, opening door after door in hopes of him returning to his life, they uncover their ideas affect the world they discover on the opposite aspect of the door. Anybody acquainted with manifestation will immediately acknowledge the position it performs in Jason’s consequence, so we needed to ask Okeniyi how he associated the idea to his personal experiences.

“I 1000% subscribed to manifestation,” Okeniyi instructed BOSSIP. “I believe if you wish to go wherever on this life you gotta go there within the thoughts first and sure, there’s no query that I, on some unconscious stage, manifested this position. I used to be engaged on a special science fiction present, a time journey present that I used to be writing with a few companions of mine and we type of obtained to a roadblock. My sister was like, ‘It’s best to try this guide by this man Blake Crouch. Perhaps when you learn it, it would offer you concepts of a special course you might take with the present.’ We had gotten to a spot the place we have been type of caught. I learn Blake’s guide and I used to be like, ‘Ohh f**ok, like he cracked it!’ To the purpose the place I used to be so depressed. I ended engaged on the venture I used to be writing earlier than. This was so contemporary and so completely different, even with all of the spectacles it was so grounded. So yeah, I used to be engaged on one thing and this was speculated to be you understand inspiration for what I used to be engaged on after which God simply stated, ‘No, go work on this, that’s why it’s coming into your Life.”

In Darkish Matter, Joel Edgerton’s character discovers there are numerous variations of Jason, most of whom are so comparable it’s exhausting to inform one from the following, the viewers meets drastically completely different variations of Okeniyi’s character Leighton Vance.

“Belief me, we had extra Leightons,” Okeniyi instructed BOSSIP. “There’s stuff we filmed that didn’t make the ultimate reduce and and hopefully we get to get to see someplace. We’re seeking to get a second season, however truthfully I simply give a whole lot of credit score to Blake actually for permitting us the actors to push these boundaries between our characters as a lot as potential. I used to be speaking with Joel earlier on and I used to be like, ‘Joel how are you going to do the completely different Jasons?’ He was like, ‘It’s going to be hair skinny variations between them. He wished it to be very, very delicate and there have been lots of people who wished to try this as nicely. I stated, ‘The place’s the enjoyable in that?’ I requested Blake about it. I used to be like, ‘I need to do like blonde ideas, what do you concentrate on that?’ He was like, ‘Positive do it.’ Then was like, ‘What do you concentrate on silk pajamas?’ He was like, ‘Positive.’ I used to be like, ‘Why not tattoos?’ Something I’ve requested for he’s like, ‘Sure, sure, sure, sure.’ It’s one of many issues the place, you get to set and I’ve been filming late within the morning and you then go to lunch and are available again and I obtained the Odell Beckham ideas. I’m sitting there going, ‘Ohh man this could be a joke, like this couldn’t work or it might be actually dangerous.’ You simply must go for it. It’s important to totally decide to it. I keep in mind after the very first take Joel simply seems to be at me and he’s like, ‘Yeah that is going to be superior’. You’re attempting it out however you’re attempting to learn the solid, the crew on set. We had Tim Prepare dinner Leighton and Diddy Leighton — which is humorous as a result of we filmed this like three years in the past.”

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Darkish Matter is at the moment streaming on Apple TV+