Halo Interview, Dr Halsey And Marian Keyes - "It's Good Drama When You're Not Sure Whether You're Meant To Be On Someone's Side"

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Dr. Halsey and Marian Keyes are quietly two of the most important characters in the Halo universe. While they're not the headline grabbers of Master Chief or Cortana, they are crucial in establishing the Halo universe and therefore shoulder a lot of the pressure in the upcoming Paramount+ TV show. That pressure falls on the shoulders of Natascha McElhone and Olive Gray, who spoke to us about what challenges that pressure brings.

"It's something we all discussed a lot," McElhone says. We had a Halo boot camp and we became very familiar with what it was that had been said about our characters before we came to make the TV show. But we were very much encouraged to come up with some themes and relationship dynamics, but also ambitions and goals for our characters that I think we got very excited about."

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For Gray, this challenge had different layers to it, as their character is slightly different from the Keyes we know from the game. "Miranda, in this world, has a completely different job title than the one that she has in the game," they say. "There are certain elements, like her courage and selflessness that are in the game that I think we see in this show. But I think also as an actor, when approaching a role, I'm really looking at the script and what it says on that page, and what on that page I can take and build on in order to create this character. And so I think that that's always going to be the starting point. So it's helpful having the game and having that world carved out in so many different ways from game to game, and within the books and with the many different ways that the world of Halo has been translated."

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