The Walking Dead star Avi Nash plays IT expert Lukas.It’s been so long since we’ve heard anything about Apple TV+’s adaptation of Hugh Howey’s incredibly popular Silo series that I had forgotten it was still happening. She previously starred in The Social Network and Parks and Recreation. Silo will also star comedian and actress Rashida Jones as Alison. I really think the series is going to start a 'Silo chic' fashion trend!' Who else is starring in Silo?

‘So, for example, all the characters’ clothes in the show are patched and recycled. 'If you put people underground, your priorities would be how to keep things for as long as possible,’ explains Walter. In Martha’s workplace, old technology is repaired and repurposed – which helps give the show its distinctive, retro-futuristic look. She’s like Juliette in a way, but realises she’ll never be as brilliant or brave.' Martha deals with the world by locking herself away where she can be useful, but also safe. ‘And at the bottom are the mechanical people, without whom the whole place would collapse. 'There’s the judicial rank at the top, who run the silo,’ explains Harriet Walter. Harriet Walter (Rocketman, Killing Eve and Succession) plays Martha, who is Juliette’s friend and confidante Martha, whose skill in repairing things is highly valued in this hierarchical society where resources are scarce. (Image credit: BBC) Harriet Walter on playing Martha She appears in The Greatest Showman as Jenny Lind and has also starred in Doctor Sleep, Men in Black: International, The Girl on the Train and the TV miniseries The White Queen, playing Queen Elizabeth.ĭavid Oyelowo as architect Edward in BBC1 drama The Girl Before. She also played Lady Jessica Atreides in the sci-fi movie Dune in 2021. Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson is perhaps best known for her role as Ilsa Faust in the Mission: Impossible movies. So it’s become a bit of a family joke about how inappropriately I’ve been cast.' 'I am completely inept, and can’t even thread a needle. But Rebecca Ferguson admits that, although her character can repair pretty much anything, that is not a skill she shares.

Juliette is first seen in the lower levels – known as the ‘down-deep’ – where she’s busy fixing a giant furnace. ‘What motivates her is anger and, as anyone who’s had therapy will know, anger is basically fear.' Juliette has to step outside the environment she feels comfortable in, and start facing another reality and something bigger than herself,’ says Mission Impossible’s Ferguson, 39. The atmosphere outside is toxic, but we don’t know why or what’s happened. Rebecca Ferguson, who plays engineer Juliette, says: 'It’s set in a world where thousands of people live across hundreds of storeys connected by a giant spiral staircase.

(Image credit: Apple TV+) Silo cast - Rebecca Ferguson on playing Juliette

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