Edi Gathegi Interview: For All Mankind Season 3
For All Mankind season 3 introduces Edi Gathegi's Dev Ayesa, the CEO of a private space exploration company called Helios. The Apple TV+ series explores new horizons through a three-way race to Mars involving Helios, NASA, and the Soviet Union taking place in the midst of an alternate depiction of the 1990s. The son of an African immigrant, Dev is a highly ambitious individual determined to colonize Mars and the rest of the solar system. However, For All Mankind season 3 sees Dev endure his fair share of adversity when the combined crew of NASA and the Soviets land on the Red Planet before Helios' Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman)-led team.
Gathegi notably starred alongside Adam Brody in the TV series StartUp from 2016-2018. The Kenyan-born actor has also appeared in X-Men: First Class,Gone Baby Gone, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2. Gathegi most recently played Bill Pickett in the Netflix movie The Harder They Fall.
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Gathegi told Screen Rant about how he became involved in For All Mankind season 3, the rationale behind Dev's actions, and more.
Screen Rant: Had you seen the show before joining the cast? What were your impressions of it from the outside?
Edi Gathegi: I'm actually really good friends with Noah Harpster, who plays Bill Strausser, and he told me that he was on a little show called For All Mankind, and it was the biggest set he had ever been on, and they throw millions and millions of dollars into these sets and you never experience anything like that. I was so excited to watch it and then life got in the way. When the conversations started for me joining, I went, «Oh, that's my friend Noah's show, I gotta watch it!» I watched it
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