The wait is nearly over for Netflix’s upcoming adaptation series, 3 Body Problem. This epic drama will premiere on the streamer later this week, but for lucky SXSW attendees, that wait is no more. The show’s creatives and crew attended this year’s festival in Austin, Texas, where they shared their world premiere for the first episode of eight, and Collider’s Steve Weintraub had the opportunity to sit down with cast members Jess Hong, Jovan Adepo, Eiza González, Alex Sharp, and John Bradley, known in the series as the Oxford 5.

Following the world premiere of their series, the cast stopped by Collider’s media studio at SXSW 2024 to chat about what fans can expect in this new sci-fi from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Based on the bestselling science fiction trilogy by Liu Cixin, this global sci-fi sees our world facing the repercussions of one woman’s decision during the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s, and the consequences that reverberate through time.

Having had firsthand experience with the showrunners on the hit HBO series, Bradley revealed what similarities, if any, fans can expect in 3 Body Problem.

"The principle that David and Dan have brought over from Game of Thrones is the idea that you can have big existential threats, but they don't really matter unless you care about the people that they're affecting. Spectacle is one thing, but unless you have a group of characters who you can relate to and you can kind of live that threat vicariously through those characters, and think, ‘What would I do as a normal person in extraordinary circumstances?’ I think that's kind of what it's about. I think because our show is based in the real world, it starts in the real world and then things start to get crazier and crazier, it forces people to think how they'd react in those circumstances. It goes fantastical but it's firmly rooted in reality."

Who Are the Oxford 5?

In the show, the Oxford 5 refers to a group of tight-knit students from Oxford University who must band together to save the world. Jin Cheng (Hong) is a theoretical physicist with an insatiable curiosity; Saul Durand (Adepo) is a physics research assistant who is equally as brilliant as his colleagues, though his focus is lacking; Auggie Salazar (González) is a nanotech innovator who prefers to live in the now; Jack Rooney (Bradley) is an affable friend who utilizes his phsyics degree to build a snacks empire; and Will Downing (Sharp) is a sixth-form physics teacher whose life is about to change drastically.

Check out the full interview in the video above for more on laying the groundwork for more seasons, how 3 Body Problem is like nothing else on TV, which episodes to keep an eye on, the show's VR world, and the filming of Guy Ricthie's Fountain of Youth.

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