Aaron Tveit: ‘Earth Abides’ asks ‘If we had to start over, could we do it better?’
1 of 4 | Aaron Tveit’s “Earth Abides” wraps up its first season on Sunday. Photo courtesy of MGM+
Tony Award-winner Aaron Tveit says he wanted to star in Earth Abides because the new streaming series is more realistic than many other end-of-the-world stories being told today.
“I think we’re so trained to think what that [post-apocalyptic genre] is and what that’s going to be. We encounter these worlds that are really dark and really wrought and there’s a zombie that shows up or some big baddie or an alien,” Tveit, 41, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. Advertisement
“instead, I was met with a script [for Earth Abides] that was so human and so rooted in human behavior and human relationships and I was really, really moved by it,” he added. “The show asks wonderful questions, namely, if this happened, if we had to start over, could we do it again? Could we do it better? Could we do it in a way that we love and accept each other and love our environment, instead of just taking from our environment. And I’ve not seen that before. So, I was very, very interested in it because of that.”
Wrapping up its first season on Sunday on MGM+, the adaptation of George Stewart’s classic novel follows the few survivors of a global pandemic. It co-stars Alexander Ludwig and Jessica Frances Dukes. Advertisement
