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Transcript of the Westworld Experience 1 You’re listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief, I’m Eric Molinsky. And you can tell from the title of this episode, “The Westworld Experience,” I’m talking about Westworld, so as usual – spoilers ahead. If you haven’t watched the show, but you would like to know what it’s about it, the basic premise is that in the future there’s a Wild West theme park where the guests can interact with androids called “hosts.” But the hosts don’t know they’re not human. They think they exist in the Old West. Eventually, it’s revealed that Westworld is actually one of a many parks of different themed-worlds. But the main focus is this Wild West world, where the guests are encouraged to do anything they want to the hosts because the hosts may feel pain or pleasure in the moment, but afterward they’re brought back to the shop, their memories are wiped clean, their bodies are fixed up, and they’re sent back out to interact with different guests, having no idea what happened to them. Or at least that’s the way Westworld had been working for decades until the first episode, when a few of the hosts suddenly started accessing old memories that should’ve been deleted. As the hosts slowly become self- aware -- they have a lot of questions, to say the least. And eventually, they’re Just really pissed off. Now to promote season 2, HBO built the town of Sweetwater – the fake Western town in Westworld – Just outside the South by Southwest festival this Spring. And they hired actors to play the androids – not the android characters from the show played by famous stars, but new characters that the guests at the festival could interact with. This interactive theatrical exhibit was the buzz at South by Southwest. Even the stars of Westworld, like Evan Rachel Wood and James Marsden went through it -- not as their characters but as themselves. CLIP: It’s pretty crazy, like being on set, it’s a whole Wild West town, etc. That is the voice of Thandie Newton, who is sitting on the couch with them during this interview. She also plays an android on the show. But unlike the other two actors, she didn’t go through this live theatrical version of Westworld and she was really curious about it. 2 CLIP: I’d love to interview the actors whether they were asked anything uncomfortable because WW is pretty strange. I wondered about that too. So I talked with a few of the actors. And it turns out what there was a problem with some of the guests being inappropriate with the actors. But I’ll get to that later. Because overall, the actors told me the project was one of the best proJects they worked on in their careers. And it was not like being an actor on the TV series. Those actors take breaks – sometimes in the TV series, those actors take breaks, sometimes long breaks as they setting up a next shot. But the actors in the live theatrical show of Westwrold had to be in character for days. The actress Liz Waters played one of the hosts. LIZ: I woke up the next morning and I just I almost couldn't remember how to be me. I couldn't remember like what it really was that I was supposed to be doing right then. And like I mean I was in a complete brain fog for about two days. The world that I had lived in for the last six days wasn't my world anymore. And that's how involved everyone was. The audition process was really secretive. The actors were told they were auditioning for a theatrical show called “Pride of Texas.” They were all petty shocked when they found out what it really was. They spent several days developing their characters with the show’s director David Wally – and figuring out what their relationships were to all the other hosts in town. They ran through it once with friends and family playing the guests. Then it was show time. Now the guests were people who Just happened to be at South by Southwest. They were brought in Just like the guests were on the TV show. First they got debriefed at the fictional corporation Delos – which looked exactly as it did on the TV show. Then the guests got on a train, and it was the actual train from the set of Westworld, which they brought in. And they took it until they reached the town of Sweetwater, which they set up Just outside Austin. 3 LIZ: And they set it up that way so that right when you came out of the train it was literally all you could see was this world for you and you couldn't see anything else so they blocked the rest of it with trees. So it's like even outside of that seeing as how it was like a town outside of Austin there's like a tree like an actual train behind us that some houses over there but you couldn't see any of that. Now because this happened at South by Southwest, there were a lot of celebrities among the guests Alan Nelson played one of the hosts, and he says he’ll never forget Steven Spielberg’s reaction when Spielberg stepped off the train into Sweetwater. ALAN: Let me tell you to see Steven Spielberg who of course is just part of everybody's mental landscape get blown away by something that that was quite amazing. And he asked me who's the director? And of course you never break character. And I go well I don't know what you mean by that but we have a traveling hypnotist in town who seems to be able to charm us into saying or doing anything he wants to and his name is David Wally. David Wally of course was their director. Liz Waters says she was totally star struck, but the fun part was that her discovered that her character, a Judgmental schoolteacher, turned out to be a really good vehicle to tease all these famous people. Her favorite moment was with Jeffrey Wright, who plays one of the company employees on the TV show. LIZ: Yeah, Jeffrey Wright was one of the people I called out for imbibing the devil’s liquor. I said sir you going enjoying the devil's liquor this evening? I do hope you are doing so in moderation. And he was like oh of course ma'am of course and like when each man does have his own path that's all just the lead and virtue and family of course and he's just like pointed at me and was like are you hearing this right now? But the celebrity they actually they had the most fun with was EliJah Wood – who was Just at South By Southwest promoting something else. Alan actually gave EliJah Wood a message to send to another host in town. 4 ALAN: And he immediately said yeah, yeah, I'll do that. And I say if you would go see Miss Jocelyn over the Coronado and tell her while I have pondered her invitation most carefully for the last several days, and it did make me blush a bit, that I have finally reached a decision, if you would tell her that Silent Alan has said says yes, he does accepted that invitation and we'll see her tonight. And he goes yes Miss Jocelyn, at Coronado, I’ll do it. But when EliJah Wood went looking for Miss Jocelyn, he saw a Wanted posters made up by the staff with his picture on it saying, “Wanted: For stealing a ring.” This is of course was a Lord of the Rings reference. LIZ: And so I guess he was walking by the sheriff and the sheriff was like you! And he like looked over and saw his picture and he just took off running. EliJah Wood was chased around town until he found Miss Jocelyn. ALAN: Elijah says oh by the way Miss Jocelyn, Silent Alan says that he has considered your invitation and we'll see you tonight. You know that blew her away. Now there were other things to do at the Westworld Experience. You could eat, drink, watch a shoot-out or solve mysteries in this sort of interactive game. But the big draw were the actors playing the hosts. And Liz Waters, says the guests just kept trying to get the actors to break character. LIZ: And if they asked you questions or tried to show you their cell phone or something you didn’t understand as a host, you would say, it doesn’t look like anything to me. Another thing that happened all the time is that the guests would say to the hosts, “freeze all motor functions!” But on the show, only the lab employees of the Delos Corporation have that power to do that, so I don’t know why the guests thought they’d have that power there. And there were actors playing Delos technicians, wearing the red and white hazmat suits that we see on the TV show, going up to the actors playing androids and saying, freeze all motor functions. 5 LIZ: And I think one of them told me I'm going to implant a memory from when you were eight years old and your grandmother brought you a batch of strawberries and then she'll be like increasing friendliness by 25 percent.
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