Jared Harris nailed why “Chernobyl” resonates so deeply today.<br /> <br />“It’s a story about an ecological disaster and the fact that it was made worse because they ignored the facts,” he explained. “They suppressed an inconvenient truth for a more favorable political reality.”<br /> <br />Harris has had an impressive career with roles in Mad Men, Lost in Space, and recently, the intense historic drama “Chernobyl,” which details the 1986 nuclear incident in Russia.<br /> <br />“I was alive at the time living in Europe so I knew what had happened but I didn’t understand what had happened,” he said.<br /> <br />To prepare for the role, Harris did a lot of research on Valery Legasov, who had effectively been scrubbed from Chernobyl’s history. He was drawn to the fact that Legasov was “a reluctant hero”<br /> <br />“Traditionally what you see with the heroes is that they run into the burning building—that’s what the first responders do [in the show] actually, that you see in that first episode,” he said. “That interested me in a way because we don’t know how we’re going to react when that moment comes—are we gonna run or are we gonna fight?”<br /> <br />“Chernobyl” was released on HBO and saw massive success for its intense reenactment of the incident as well as its allusion to political corruption.<br /><br /> This video, "I Have a Question: Jared Harris From ‘Chernobyl’</a>", first appeared on<br /> nowthisnews.com</a>.
