The Orville Cast’s Thoughts Ahead of the Season 3 Premiere

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During their press tour for the upcoming release of The Orville: New Horizons, several of the cast members spoke to CBR regarding the premiere. This nostalgia-filled sci-fi show that revisits everything that modern-day Star Trek should be has been cemented in the hearts and minds of fans who have been begging for some good sci-fi for decades now. Despite this overwhelming fan adoration, The Orville has faced insurmountable odds and several delays in releasing this third season. Now, that release is fast approaching, and fans can only hope it holds up to the incredible first two seasons. However, Seth MacFarlane has not let the audience of The Orville down so far, so a degree of trust has been earned.

Chad L. Coleman (Klyden):

“It’s exciting from the standpoint of knowing just how rich and bold and epic this season is. It has everything. It’s no holds barred. . . We are stepping both feet in, and it’s powerfully compelling, tremendously entertaining, and a lot of fun to work with both of them. . . Where this family goes this season is a hell of a thrill ride. You will be on the edge of your seats, for sure, in terms of what we serve up as far as our family is concerned.”

Peter Macon (Bortus):

“I think it will be worth the wait. I feel like we really got to take our time and build out these 60-minute films. . . We can watch a character that got out of a scene and what they are feeling and what they are reacting to and what happened to them. There’s time for that, which builds character, which builds story. That feels really good. . . It just gets deeper and deeper, so the relationships with other characters grow and get deeper. The challenges present themselves. Just when you think it can’t get any harder or stranger or funnier, it does. The joy for me is just to be in it for that long and take whatever is thrown at me, as the character, because there is so much life that has already happened to build from.”

Mark Jackson (Isaac):

“What I kind of forgot is in Season 2, we are sort of in a situation where the Orville is licking its wounds, the whole Union is licking its wounds from the battle with the Kaylon. For Isaac, he has a long way to go to win back their respect and trust from the crew. . . (Isaac) is slowly reprogramming to work better in the Orville environment, but he was never really meant to stay there. As he is now, staying on the Orville, he has to step up his game. So, when he learns about human hatred and what that actually means, and how much that means to humans and aliens alike, he has to process that in the only way he knows how.”

All these words from the cast can only inspire hope and excitement within the fans, as they hearken back to the classic days of actors and press tours. The actors’ comments focus solely on the story and the characters rather than any political or social narrative that can be constructed around them. It comes as a breath of fresh air in modern Hollywood to see actors enthralled and dedicated to telling a good story. It appears that The Orville season 3 will indeed hold up to its predecessors and deliver a fun and compelling sci-fi narrative to hold over disenfranchised Star Trek fans. The Orville: New Horizons releases on June 2nd onto Hulu.