Pre-release marketing for Warner Bros.’ Companion might’ve had you certain the entire game was given away. That is and isn’t true: yeah, Iris (Sophie Thatcher) learns she’s a robot, and you can make an educated guess what happens next. But for writer/director Drew Hancock and its two leads, getting there was a bit of a creative […]
The Cast of Companion on the Horrors and Cuteness of AI Robots
In tech thriller Companion, the perfect girlfriend breaks free from her programming. Iris (Yellowjackets‘ Sophie Thatcher) is the AI robot companion to Josh (The Boys‘ Jack Quaid); over a holiday weekend with friends, she mysteriously glitches out of her role. io9 sat down with Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Lukas Gage (Smile […]