Totally. And that actually leads nicely to my next question: If there’s a potential season 3, are there any aspects of your characters you would love to explore?
Pace: No, I would leave that to [showrunner David S. Goyer.] He’s given me such fun characters to play, so I’d be curious to know what’s on his mind. I also would be curious to see how the character responds to an even weaker empire. And then, because it all seems like it’s going in one direction, and I wonder how that will be expressed in the Cleons.
What about you, Laura?
Birn: Yeah, I’m super happy exploring whatever comes her way. I don’t want to … I keep my secrets to myself.
Oh, do you have more secrets that you know about your character?
Birn: Well, I do have some vague ideas what could happen, maybe possibly, if we were to continue.
Exciting. And Lee, I have to ask, for my last question: I’m also an avid sci-fi reader, and I was wondering, have you read any good books lately in sci-fi?
Pace: I have been in a deep study of Ursula Le Guin. I am going through a lot of her short stories right now, [“The Birthday of the World and Other Stories.”] There’s this one that takes place on a slow ship, a generational ship [a novella titled “Paradises Lost”], and it takes five generations to get to the planet that they’re going. So you’re with this one generation that’s only known the ship. That’s their world. I love her. I love everything about what she writes. I love her, this world of respect and consent that she creates. I happily go back to her again and again. You agree, right?
I agree. She’s one of the greats for a reason. For sure.
The second season of “Foundation” premieres on Apple TV+ on July 14, 2023.