Het komt zelden tot nooit voor dat ik mijzelf totaal identificeer met een film of TV personage, maar Mr.Robot komt heel eng dichtbij. Want Eliot in de serie is een hacker (ik een nerd) met een drugs probleem (ik heb een video game verslaving) die een sociale outcast is (thats me) die zijn hoodie rockt als een fookin baas en laat nu 90% van mijn truien ook hoodies zijn. Het eerste seizoen is een must see en eindigde met een WTF cliffhanger en daarom kijk ik ook heel erg uit naar het tweede seizoen. De website Collider had een interview met Christian Slater en Rami Malek en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een stukje lezen. #fsociety

Rami, things must be a bit different in Season 2, now that Elliot is more aware of what's actually going on in his life. Does it feel different for you, as an actor?

RAMI MALEK: It changes him, entirely. It gave me heart palpitations because when you do something that people respond to, and then you start altering the blueprint for what worked, it's pretty fear-inducing. But sometimes, you have to do that, in order to push the boundaries. For this character and story to be as provocative as it was in the first season, we can't rest on our laurels. You really have to just take some more risks and chances that I don't think are for the sake of just taking risks and being different. They're grounded in the story that Sam [Esmail] has created, with the trajectory and arc of all of these characters. I happened to know where he was headed this season, so I took some big changes and I think the audience will be rewarded by them. Maybe they'll end up on the editing floor, but that remains to be seen.

As an actor who's been in this business a long time, and had ups and downs, what's it like to get such great scripts, every week?

SLATER: It's great, getting the scripts and working with somebody like Sam Esmail, who is such a great leader. He's just so prepared and there's so much attention to detail. And then, you add Rami Malek to the mix, and Carly Chaikin and Portia Doubleday. And in Season 2, we have Joey Badass and Craig Robinson, who are amazing. To get to play a character like this, there's so much freedom and fun with it that it's very exciting.