We talked to Master Chief and Cortana about their new Halo TV show

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The Halo TV show is set to debut on March 24, and having seen the first few episodes, it’s bound to make a splash for several reasons. For one, it has a huge budget! But it also takes some liberties with the Halo universe by virtue of it being a completely separate project that is not beholden to the games.

We sat down with several members of the cast and crew to talk about the immense pressure of adapting a series with so much history, and all the expectations that come with that task.

Co-creator Steven Kane and executive producer Kiki Wolfkill told press that they have a “constant feedback loop with 343 Industries [the current steward of the games],” to either draw out old characters or make authentic new ones. Well, there are definitely some old ones! Most notably Master Chief [John-117] is back (Pablo Schreiber), as is Cortana (Jen Taylor). And in a fascinating turn, Taylor (who voices Cortana in the game series) returned for the live-action adaptation to continue playing the character.

As I was watching the show, I noticed that everyone had very different sets of challenges, and wanted to get Taylor’s perspective on how tough it was to move into TV. As it turns out, she already had training! Laughing, Taylor told us “the lesson was working on this [series] for 20 years, and being able to take all that we had created before to start this journey, which was a gift. And going from doing voice-over to motion capture which helped me do motion capture on screen. All my prior experience led up to this moment.”

She stresses that the motion capture element already had her ready to step into the shoes of a new form of Cortana, as it were, which is a fascinating life experience in and of itself. Later on in the interview,