“To get to go to work with really smart people who really care about the present and the future and are interested in the role technology or plays now and the stakes of where we’re going and where we’ve been…as somebody who’s a genre writer, I’m interested in all those questions,” she said. “I care about artificial intelligence, I’m interested in how humanity is going to cope with various crises that are out there.”

She said that the pandemic, which is mentioned in the series, also made the questions Westworld pose “timely.” Such questions include, as she said, “discussions about what does it mean to be human and where’s our hubris around it and can humans actually evolve enough, in time, to handle things that are happening.”

“And on the flip side will hosts have a chance to evolve past their creators and what they’re a reflection of, can humans and hosts coexist?” she continued. “I think those are really metaphorical questions but already, I feel like we should be having these discussions as a culture. Whatever small part Westworld is playing in telling a story that makes people go and ask those questions themselves and still have an enjoyable adventure…it really is kind of a dream job.”

Evan Rachel Wood

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