‘Alex Rider’ Season 2: Interviews With Brenock O’Connor, Ronke Adékoluejo, Toby Stephens & Marli Siu
Alex Rider Season 2 is set to premiere in the UK and USA on the free IMDb TV streaming service from 3rd December 2021, so I had the opportunity to virtually catch up with some of the cast to chat about where things go for the teen spy this year.
Produced by Eleventh Hour Films, ‘Alex Rider’ is a spy-thriller series based on the popular book franchise written by Anthony Horowitz, which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. The series follows Alex, a London-based teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage.
In Season Two, Alex is still reeling from the traumatic events at Point Blanc, and desperately wants to return to a normal life. But when his new friend Sabina’s father, journalist Ed Pleasance, is attacked by Yassen Gregorovich, the man who may have killed his uncle, Alex reluctantly finds himself drawn back into the world of international espionage. Cut loose from his one-time allies within shadowy MI6 division The Department, Alex discovers a link between Ed, a dangerous hacker known as Smoking Mirror, and tech billionaire Damian Cray. With the help of his guardian Jack and trusted friend Tom, Alex must unravel a sinister political plot with global repercussions, the answer to which may be locked within Cray’s latest product, the global phenomenon video game Feathered Serpent. This season is based on the fourth book in the franchise, Eagle Strike.
The first pair I caught up with was Brenock O’Connor and Ronke Adékoluejo. Brenock plays Alex’s (somewhat long-suffering) best friend Tom, and Ronke plays the main parental figure in Alex’s life, Jack. In the interview, we chat about where we find them both in the new season, and what has changed, both for them and for Alex.
The second interview was with Toby Stephens and Marli Siu. Toby is the “new boy” this season, and takes on the role of Damian Cray, the tech billionaire who is the brains behind the video game which all the kids are obsessively playing, who is about to launch a brand new version. Marli returns as Kyra, a hacker from Singapore, who Alex last saw as a fellow student during his time at the sinister Point Blanc school.
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‘Alex Rider‘ Season 2 premieres Friday, 3rd December 2021 on IMDb TV in the UK and USA. The series will also stream exclusively as an Amazon Original on Prime Video in Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, and Latin America on the same date.
