Billy Crudup and Nicholas Podany Talk Apple TV+'s 'Hello Tomorrow!'
Moviefone speaks with Billy Crudup and Nicholas Podany about 'Hello Tomorrow!' "It exceeded all of our expectations," Crudup said of making the series.
Premiering on Apple TV+ beginning February 17th is the new series ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ from co-creators
What is ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ about?
Set in a retro-future world, “Hello Tomorrow!” centers around a group of traveling salesmen hawking lunar timeshares. Billy Crudup stars as Jack, a salesman of great talent and ambition, whose unshakeable faith in a brighter tomorrow inspires his coworkers, revitalizes his desperate customers, but threatens to leave him dangerously lost in the very dream that sustains him.
How many episodes of ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ are there?
‘Hello Tomorrow!’ will start airing on Apple TV+ beginning February 17th and the first season will contain 10 episodes.
Who is in the cast of ‘Hello Tomorrow?’
'Hello Tomorrow!' stars Billy Crudup ('Almost Famous,' 'Watchmen'), who also serves as an executive producer, as well as Haneefah Wood ('Freedomland'), Alison Pill ('Vice'), Nicholas Podany ('Harry Potter And The Cursed Child'), Dewshane Williams ('The Umbrella Academy'), Hank Azaria ('The Birdcage'), Matthew Maher ('Captain Marvel'), and Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver ('Silver Linings Playbook,' 'Animal Kingdom').
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Billy Crudup and Nicholas Podany about their work on ‘Hello Tomorrow!,’ Crudup's first reaction to the script,
(L to R) Billy Crudup and Nicholas Podany star in Apple TV+'s 'Hello Tomorrow!'
You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews with Crudup, Podany, Hank Azaria, Haneefah Wood, Dewshane Williams, Alison Pill, and series co-creators Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen.
Moviefone: To begin with, Billy, can you talk about your initial reaction to the scripts and what it was like working on this series with Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen?
Billy Crudup: It exceeded all of our expectations, to be truthful. Amit and Lucas had really reached for something original. When I read it, I identified with a certain aspect of the salesmanship in Jack. I remember that in my dad and the hope that went with it, and the desire to make people's lives better, to be the person who's an agent of change.
He thinks of himself as an evangelist, and his message is, “You can solve your problems with a little bit of hope in the future, and I'm going to sell you that hope in the future in the form of a deed that says you've got a property on the moon.” The world that they had created with these gadgets and with the retro future feel, became material in front of all of our eyes day by day, and we all watched in wonder, as cars floated and robots served beers.
Billy Crudup stars in Apple TV+'s 'Hello Tomorrow!'
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MF: The series is filled with futuristic gadgets, Nicholas, was there one gadget in particular that caught your eye on set?
Nicholas Podany: There's a gadget that I use in a grocery store, that we find Joey working at when we first meet him. What it does is it is just this conveyor belt where you put a canned soup on it. The shelf is reachable, you can definitely reach up to get to the shelf, but you have this whole massive machine that takes up half the aisle to just put the soup cans where you could have originally reached anyway.
So, what I love about the gadgets in the show for the most part is, cars with wheels move as fast as cars without, but why not have it? Most of the devices, most of the gadgets in this show, are just a hair bit useless, except you need them because they'll make your life better.
Billy Crudup stars in Apple TV+'s 'Hello Tomorrow!'
MF: Finally, Billy, the sales team Jack works with and his leadership style?
BC: Well, first of all, the team of actors that we had around us is a superlative team of actors, and collaborating with them creatively on defining who this team is and where is the chemistry between them? I don't know what the right word for them is … Carnies? Why are they together? I think there's a certain level of trust that goes in the hope that each of them is going to help the other in building a slightly brighter future for them every day.
Jack always tries to start with a positive message, no matter how dark the day had been before, because every day is going to start with the idea that this is the one, until you have to turn the page, go to sleep, and then wake up for the next one. This is a team that'll go along with that.
(L to R) Nicholas Podany and Billy Crudup star in Apple TV+'s 'Hello Tomorrow!'
Movies Similar to ‘Hello Tomorrow!:’
- 'The Rocketeer' (1991)
- 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' (2004)
- 'The Incredibles' (2004)
- 'Space Station 76' (2014)
- 'Tomorrowland' (2015)
