For David Dastmalchian (Life of Chuck, Late Night with the Devil), filming Apple TV+’s sci-fi series Murderbot was “an incredibly emotional experience.”
Does the ‘Murderbot’ cast relate to Murderbot?
Dastmalchian plays Dr. Gurathin, an augmented human and a member of the PresAux survey group. Unlike the rest of the very loving, very open group, Gurathin is more cagey, as well as immediately distrustful of security android Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård). As the show reveals, Gurathin’s lack of trust and more loner status stems from his mistreatment at the hands of Murderbot‘s nefarious Company, who coerced him into substance addiction during his time working for them.
“Gurathin is, similar to me, a person who has struggled and wrestled with both addiction, as well as a compulsive disorder in which control is an addiction all in its own,” Dastmalchian told Mashable in an interview for an upcoming episode of Mashable’s Say More. “So Gurathin is a person who maintains his own security and safety by keeping the people he loves very close and trying to control the things around him as much as he possibly can.”
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