Tim Robbins plays Bernard Holland, the head of IT and eventual mayor in the Apple TV dystopian sci-fi series Silo. The series dives into a ruined and toxic future with thousands of lives in a giant silo living deep underground, or are they? The series stars Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Alexandria Riley, and a host of others as they try to uncover the truth. But the truth costs a pretty penny, and someone has to pay up.
LISTEN NOW: Tim Robbins on 'Silo'
Robbins sat down with Romeo International to share with Audacy his thoughts on the show and how it can mirror real life.
What do you think are the real life applications of 'Silo' that can be compared to today?
"When I first read this script, I couldn't believe how relevant it was, because we were just coming out of lockdown. I had to close my theater for two years. And I'm reading a script that is talking about an entire society that's locked down. Their movement is restricted. The information they receive is restricted. Anyone that steps outside of the narrative, to question the narrative. is to be excluded from society. All the stuff we had just been through, and are still going through to some degree. If still, if you question the narrative, you can be excluded from society. Here we are, here I am reading this thing and realizing, 'oh, my God, they're talking about now. They're talking about right now.' And that's what great drama does."
"You know, when Shakespeare was writing, 'Richard III,' but he's really talking about the king right now. He can't be blamed for it. It's a fictional character. I didn't, it's not you. It's that. So the same thing, the whole story is a drama, way back, 1000s of years ago when it started. It was about a communication between the citizens of Athens, Greece, and the state people on stage. And what were they telling, the stories they were telling were about recent traumatic events that happened, great wars that had a lot of death, famine, that had a lot of death, plague that had a lot of death. The society was traumatized by it. So the citizens had to go through an experience on stage where they witnessed a drama that could give them catharsis and understanding of what the trauma they had just been through was. They could cry, they could laugh in the comedies, they could make a mutual, communal experience with all the other people in the audience, and understand deeper what they've just been through by acknowledging it. Right now, we have this situation where everyone wants to say, 'oh, I don't want to think about it, it's just, it's over.' We went through a trauma as a world that was unprecedented. It's never happened in human history. 2 years of a lockdown."
Season 3 of Silo is now streaming on Apple TV.
Season 3 is now streaming on Apple TV
Season 3 is now streaming on Apple TV
