- I think now's a good time to tell this story
because Umbrella Academy is a bit different
than things we've seen from superheroes already.
With Umbrella Academy we can go a lot deeper.
We can just get past the really boring stuff
about what it means to be a superhero
and get right to their problems.
- [Narrator] Everything about our family's insane.
- I have adopted six children.
Gifted with abilities far beyond the ordinary.
I give you the Umbrella Academy.
- I play Luther Hargreeves.
He is, number one, his alias is Space Boy.
- I play Cha-Cha, who is a time traveling assassin
who has a partner who's Hazel.
- I play Vanya Hargreeves number seven
and she is the sibling in the Hargreeves family
that is just ordinary and without powers.
- Allison The Rumor, has the ability
to alter reality and change people's decision making.
- And I'm number four, Klaus,
who can see dead people and stuff.
- I play number two, Diego Hargreeves.
- I play number five, a 58 year old
time traveling assassin
who gets stuck in his teenage body
after traveling back from the future
to save the world from the apocalypse.
- Boom.
- I jumped forward and got stuck in the future.
You know what I found?
Absolutely nothing.
- When's it supposed to happen?
- In eight days.
- Oh shit.
- What about the apocalypse
that makes it so good for a story?
I mean, I think if you were to find out
that everything is ending,
it would probably change a lot
about what you were gonna do.
- Mmhm, yes.
- For that eight days, for how you would think
or how you'd feel about the people around you.
- The air is really thick in that house.
- There's lots of things that have happened
through their childhood into young,
sort of adults, I suppose,
before they disbanded
that has formed all these riffs, really
in their relationships.
Ultimately I think they needed this time
to really figure out who they all are as people.
And ultimately, they realize
that they all need each other.
Ya know, they all have these problems
that stem from their father, really,
that the only way they're gonna get through it
is by relying on each other.
- This is a story about knowing who you are
and having to accept that and be that
no matter what the circumstance is.
Hazel, at some point, loved his job,
and loved traveling through time
assassinating people.
But, at some point I think that just became
really depressing.
It was really fun to play a bad guy
who doesn't know themselves
and doesn't know who they are or what they want.
- I think you hope that whenever we,
when we're watching something, at least for me,
of course when you identify
something that you've experienced or gone through
and it hits you emotionally.
Hopefully that's offering, I don't know, just that...
- It's very relatable.
- Yeah, and I think people will
have different entrances into,
I think everybody responds to trauma
or things in their past,
or the feelings that make them different
or whatever it manifests in different ways
and you have these characters
who are all sort of trying to exist
as adults who had this really quite traumatic childhood.
- I hope audiences get the fact that
we're all a bit broken and fractured in some way
and that we can get through that kind of thing together
with family or with friends or loved ones.
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