3 Body Problem episode 5 spoilers follow.
3 Body Problem star Eiza González has revealed she had a “crisis” over the brutality of a scene involving Auggie.
The Netflix series follows a group of scientists and detectives who are left to grapple with the reverberations of a decision made in 1960s China, the ramifications of which affect the present day.
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In the fifth episode of the eight part series, Auggie is enlisted by Thomas Wade (Liam Cunningham) to secure data from a ship that is eventually to be destroyed, with Auggie subsequently horrified as her nanofiber technology kills everybody on board.
The character is subsequently wracked with guilt following the incident, with González explaining exclusively to Digital Spy that the scene had an effect on her personally, saying: “It was terrifying and brutal. As a human being, the empathy kind of kicks in.
“It was hard for me, for a long time, to not judge her. It was really complicated. I had a real crisis within Auggie, because there were things that I ultimately agreed with, and others that, in a moral way, I couldn’t agree with.
“Sometimes that’s the most challenging part as an actor, where you come face to face with things that you would not feel inclined to do. So it was challenging because I don’t naturally feel like I would have allowed her to do that, but yet she chooses to.”
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The star, who conducted the interview alongside co-stars John Bradley and Alex Sharp, continued: “Understanding that psychology… It was scary. It was daunting filming that scene. I was dreading it but also excited by it.
“It was a challenging moment for me as an actor, and I learned a lot in the process. It’s hard to empathise with her for a lot of reasons. I think, morally speaking, for people, it’s going to become quite complicated, because that’s a very delicate subject for humans, of course.”
3 Body Problem streams on Netflix.
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