
Sunday AMC premiered its new drama series
Humans. The show takes place in an alternate present where one of the must-have technological advances is a “Synth.” A Synth is a human-like artificially intelligent servant.
Recently, actress Gemma Chan, who stars as Anita, the Synth acquired by the Hawkins family, talked to the media about her work on the show.
The actress talked to SciFi Vision about the “Synth” training that she did to learn how to correctly play her character’s movements and emotions. “Anita was, you know, a really unique challenge for me really. There was a whole physical aspect of the role which as you mentioned. About a month before we started shooting, those of us in the cast who were playing Synths, did some workshops with an amazing choreographer called Dan O’Neil, and we tried to come up with a universal set of rules for the movement of Synths in the show.