Your family. Your world. What if it all disappeared tomorrow? - Drive In Magazine

Petro-chemist Andy Yeats (Matthew Fox) knows how dependent the world is on oil; if something were to happen to the world’s oil supply, it would set off a chain reaction: transportation would grind to a halt, supplies would cease to be delivered, law enforcement would be overwhelmed. While on a business trip to the Middle East, Andy realizes that his worst fears are coming true and his family is separated at this crucial moment. His teenage daughter, Laura (Alyth Ross), is alone at home in London while his wife, Elena (Joanne Froggatt), and young son, Sam (Taylor Fey), are in Paris. Amid this chaos, each family member will sacrifice everything to find one another, despite the distance and the dangers that separate them.

We met the cast at the press conference during the 61st Montecarlo Television Festival last June, with Matthew Fox wearing a wonderful Venice Football Club t-shirt, where we had the great privilege to watch the first two episodes of this breathtaking series.

I know you shot that like a year ago, something like that. And I know that it was another word when you shot it, but it’s impossible not to think about the current events when you are watching the first two episodes. I wonder two things. First of all, could you imagine that? Could you imagine that it could be so close to the reality we are living in now?

Dennie Gordon (Last Light director): “As we took the project on, we knew right away that it was ripped from the headlines. And remember, we were coming out of the pandemic, and we weren’t really out of the woods for the pandemic. So, we could easily imagine where our dependency on oil, was going to take us. And we saw what was happening in our cities around the world. And of course, now, today, we couldn’t have imagined the petrochemical war in Ukraine. We couldn’t have imagined, you know, so many things that are happening that we’re seeing with climate change. But we knew because it was happening all around us. We knew we were going to be current. We were hoping we wouldn’t be this current, but, uh, this is the world we intended to share with you. And we wanted to start a proactive conversation about what we all need to be doing before the lights go out. So this was our goal, to make sure that we all did everything we could to be proactive about climate change and to get off our dependency on oil.“

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