Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij speak to NME: “We don’t think ‘The OA’ is dead”

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Addressing the new show’s exploration of late-stage capitalism, Batmanglij said both creators felt they had no choice but to address humanity’s biggest crises in their work. “People sort of roll their eyes when you talk about it, but it’s actually just the reality of what we’re living in, and we would be crazy not to talk about it in every single story we make,” he tells me.

“It’s that and the climate crisis. How can anyone tell a story these days without addressing the climate crisis?”

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Two years on from its cancellation, ‘The OA’ is still missed

The OA

Theoretical physicists will tell you that our linear concept of time and space is a fallacy, that the speculative worlds we dream up when we imagine different choices – catching that train, getting that job, kissing that person on that night – are not only possible, but happening right now in concurrent dimensions. Which means, of course, that there’s a world out there somewhere in which The OA is still going. So why isn’t it this one?

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