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Things are moving quickly for Remmie Milner. As Silo returns for its third season, the actor is balancing another major chapter off-screen, expecting her second child while promoting a series laced with question of legacy, uncertainty and the future. Below, we dive into that overlap, and discuss how it manifests for Milner’s on a personal level, as well as her community and society as a whole.
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Maya Avram: Congratulations on the premier of season three of Silo. What can we expect to see this time round?
Remmie Milner: Thank you, I’m very excited about it – it’s come round quite quickly.
At the end of season two, we got a snapshot of the “before times”, or our current day, and this season we dive into that a bit more. You’ve got two timelines running alongside each other, trying to uncover the truth of why these 10,000 people live in this silo in the first place, and why does no one know the answer.
MA: Do you know the answer?
RM: I didn’t know the answer for a really long time. Even now, we still have loads of questions and things that are being figured out on set. It’s like this giant puzzle, and we’re just trying to figure out what’s what.
MA: Time is a key theme in Silo, from the “forbidden fruit” halo around the past to the uncertain future inside the bunker. How did that concept shape your performance as Shirley?
RM: Shirley is very front-footed. She’s very instinctive in everything that she does, and so it’s quite interesting for her to be paired off with Knox, who is more pragmatic and will stop and think things through before springing into action. He’s like, “How can we achieve everything we want to achieve, but also survive at the same time?”, whereas Shirley is more, “Go, go, go.”
For Shirley it’s about legacy; how she wants people to know her, the mark she wants to leave on the silo. I think she would want to be thought of as someone who is for the people, and did everything she could selflessly.
MA: What about real-life you? Has the show impacted your perception of time?
RM: Thinking about time and living in a small community is interesting, because I became a mum just after season two, and I’m pregnant again now, so motherhood for me has been a huge personal track alongside Silo. And it makes me think abour what kind of world I want to bring my children up in, and feel strongly about the energy that they’re exposed to, and how important that is. From a micro-scale of my family unit to our community and beyond.
MA: On the technical end, what has been the most challenging part of filming?
RM: Filming out sequence, specifically with shows like this, is such a beast. You go from filming episode six to suddenly filming episode one, and you really have to prep before shooting so that your timeline is super clear, your emotional journey is super clear. I found that really intriguing and challenging because I had to be on the ball.
MA: It’s almost mirroring the structure of the new season, jumping timelines while in production.
RM: Exactly. This kind of jumping back and forth was happening in our actual lives, which is sometimes quite helpful. I was like, “Oh, Shirley’s also in a bit of a spin, so this makes sense.”
Then some of my action sequences were pretty hardcore. We have amazing stunt teams working closely with us, tracking every movement and I did try to do the majority of the work myself. They’d always ask if I’m comfortable doing whatever it was I was meant to, and I’d always say, “Let’s do it.” It feels right, especially for Shirley, you know?
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MA: Is that a quality you share with her?
RM: Yes and no. I am impulsive, for sure, but then I am much more thoughtful most of the time. I suppose I’m more of a Knox. Most of the time, I can see where he’s coming from because I try to think through situations fully before diving in.
But I’m also good under pressure, so I can relate to Shirley, too. She feels like she’s under pressure all the time because she’s got the stakes of the silo on her head, where it’s often life or death.
MA: Throughout Silo, characters are constantly deciding whether to trust institutions or their own instincts. As Shirley, how did you navigate that uncertainty?
RM: That tension has been evident since season one. From commentary on the information we are fed and how much we feel like we’re allowed to question or investigate things further. It’s more poignant now than ever, with everything that’s happening globally. How much autonomy do we have as everymen to question and take action against injustice, or to uncover the truth about situations?
These are exactly the questions raised in Silo. People in a position of power not telling the whole truth, and you feeling a sort of absence, and wanting to find out what that grey area is.
MA: What are you excited about for the future?
RM: My second child will be born at the end of August, so that’s my world at the moment, and it’s really exciting.
