“Of course when I heard about it I was terrified. “It hasn’t been done before,” Lachman tells me in our cramped corner of the busy Westin Hotel lobby in Sydney. On top o fall that, they had to be proficient with a sword.
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Then the producers had to find eight girls who looked like Lachman, both physically and in skin tone. First of all, Lachman had to agree to do it. Rei’s naked sword fight presented a logistical challenge. That’s something that happens a lot over the course of the murder-mystery plot. It can be surgically inserted into another body, or “sleeve”, when their previous body gets turned into a holey red mess in a gunfight. Everyone has a device that stores their consciousness, called a “stack”, installed in the back of their neck. Lachman plays Rei, sister to main character Takeshi Kovacs (played first by Will Yun Lee, then Joel Jinnaman - read on for how that works) in the dystopian future of 2384, where people can cheat death.
At $6 million to $7 million per episode (there are 10) it’s almost as pricey as the Will Smith-led “Bright”, the sci-fi and fantasy film that cost $90 million.
That scene is from the new Netflix series “Altered Carbon”, the latest sci-fi blockbuster from Neflix’s big spending spree. Dichen Lachman at Nefllix’s “Altered Carbon” season 1 premiere in Los Angeles She lifts her TV sword and kicks off what will become a memorable (and controversial) fight scene. Beside the merkin covering her private parts, she is naked. Kate Yu/NetflixĮight women stand naked around actress Dichen Lachman in an eerie dark-blue set covered in shards of silicon glass. ‘Altered Carbon’ star lays bare show’s nudity, race issuesĪustralian actress Dichen Lachman talks “Altered Carbon”, Netflix sci-fi series weighed down by white-washing and nudity controversies.
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