Alex Lawther is in his sci-fi era.

“By chance,” the British actor laughs. “You don’t chase the genre — you chase good writing.”

Lawther is discussing his stint in the Diego Luna-led Star Wars spinoff Andor, season two of which aired earlier this year to rave reviews. “What I’ve loved about Andor is its ambitions to be intellectually serious in what it’s doing,” the 30-year-old explains to The Hollywood Reporter .

Now, he sinks his teeth into a fan-favorite franchise equally as “juggernaut-y” and cerebrally challenging with FX’s Alien prequel series Alien: Earth . Set two years before the events of Ridley Scott ‘s 1979 film, the show tells the story of a space vessel that crash-lands on a version of Earth not-too-far in the future from now and sets loose the collecte

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