If you haven’t been watching the Apple TV+ series Murderbot , in which Alexander Skarsgård plays a rogue android who’d always rather be watching its favorite TV shows than doing its job protecting incompetent humans, it’s time to catch up on it right now, please. If you don’t, you won’t be able to fully appreciate the scene-stealing addition to its cast, Anna Konkle, who plays a survivor of a doomed planetary reconnaissance mission (or so she claims) named Leebeebee. Konkle is best known for Pen15 , the show where she and her best friend, Maya Erskine, both then 20-something, played 13-year-olds living in the year 2000. It’s great to see her onscreen again in a role that makes full use of her comedic talents. Co-star Skarsgård told Vanity Fair that he “ruined so many takes becaus
Interview: Anna Konkle Is Her ‘Full Freak’ in ‘Murderbot’

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