FX新剧《异形：地球》不仅有经典的异形生物，更聚焦于地球上五大企业巨头的权力博弈。其中，年轻的富豪Boy Kavalier，由Samuel Blenkin饰演，以其桀骜不驯的个性和巨大的野心，引领着一家名为Prodigy的公司。Blenkin将Kavalier塑造成一个不拘小节、目中无人的角色，他无视规则，将员工的道德底线玩弄于股掌之间，甚至在进行重要商业通话时也极尽轻佻。Kavalier的公司正在进行一项将绝症儿童意识转移到合成身体的危险项目，其行事风格和对“智力竞赛”的追求，揭示了他内心深处对超越性对话的渴望。该剧通过Kavalier的“彼得潘”式设定，探讨了科技发展、权力运作及人性深处的复杂议题。

👦 **Boy Kavalier的狂妄与权力展现**：Boy Kavalier，一个年轻的亿万富翁，是Prodigy公司的创始人，他以一种极其傲慢和无视规则的方式行事。他随意穿着、赤脚在公司内部游荡，甚至在进行重要商业通话时也极尽轻佻，例如躺在床上用脚夹着平板电脑与竞争对手通话。这种行为不仅仅是个人习惯，更是他作为权力掌控者的一种宣示，意在通过蔑视和不尊重来巩固自己的地位。

🤖 **人工智能与意识转移的伦理困境**：Kavalier的公司正致力于一项将绝症儿童意识转移到合成身体的“混合项目”。这一前沿科技探讨了人工智能在生命延续和意识载体方面的可能性，同时也触及了深刻的伦理问题。将人类意识数字化并转移到非生物载体，无疑是对生命定义和人性的极大挑战，其背后的动机和潜在风险值得深思。

🌟 **“智力竞赛”与对智识的极致追求**：Kavalier的核心驱动力并非金钱或单纯的自负，而是对“智力竞赛”的渴望，他渴望找到一个比自己更聪明的人进行交流。为了实现这一目标，他投入巨资，为“温蒂”配置了超级计算机大脑，并聘请顶尖的智囊团进行训练。这反映了他对知识和智慧的极度崇拜，以及通过科技手段突破人类智力局限的野心。

🧚 **“彼得潘”的象征意义与角色塑造**：Kavalier将自己的公司命名为“永无岛”，并将手下的一群孩子称为“失落的男孩”，甚至每晚给他们朗读J.M. Barrie的《彼得·潘》。这种设定不仅为角色增添了一层童话色彩，也可能暗示了他内心深处的某种不成熟或逃避现实的心理。他希望通过科技和控制来创造一个理想化的世界，但也可能因此陷入更深的孤独。

🤝 **“慷慨的片场”与即兴创作的火花**：演员Samuel Blenkin强调了在拍摄过程中感受到的“自由和合作”氛围。他提到，许多Kavalier令人印象深刻的即兴表演，如用脚夹平板电脑，都源于这种开放式的创作环境。这种氛围使得演员能够更深入地理解和诠释角色，并为角色注入更多生动和意想不到的细节，从而提升了表演的真实性和感染力。

The Xenomorph isn't the only powerful being in FX's Alien: Earth series, with the heads of five major corporations calling the shots on our planet and its neighbours. The newest of these organisations, Prodigy, is led by young founder Boy Kavalier, a bratty trillionaire with a massive ego played to perfection by Mary and George, Black Mirror, and The French Dispatch star Samuel Blenkin.

Though Blenkin told Mashable that Boy Kavalier isn't based on anyone from real life, he said it was a wildly fun exercise to play someone who can do whatever they damn well want.

"I was so excited to play this role, because I don’t normally get to play people who have this kind of massive ego," he said. "I tend to play young people who are pretty broken and vulnerable in some way, so the fact that Noah [Alien: Earth creator, writer, and director Noah Hawley] gave me a chance to inhabit somebody who can walk into a room and do literally whatever he wants, I just tried really hard to get on set and embody that."

In Blenkin's hands, Boy Kavalier intentionally uses disrespectful body language and behaviour as a power play. He refuses to wear shoes as he wanders around his secret Neverland facility, helming a complex and dangerous science project. He puts said bare feet up on desks while pushing his staff's ethical boundaries, takes an extremely important business call with rival corporation Weyland-Yutani in bed (holding the tablet with his feet), and generally throws his authority around with the click of his fingers.

"That feeling of freedom and collaboration meant that I could go on set and say, 'Well, yeah, you know what? I think I will hold it with my feet.' But that was not planned," says Blenkin. "There were so many moments that weren’t planned that I just was cheeky and asked. And that feeling of freedom and collaboration only comes from being on a really generous set."

"That feeling of freedom and collaboration meant that I could go on set and say, 'Well, yeah, you know what? I think I will hold it with my feet.'"

When we first meet the prodigious leader, Boy Kavalier is helming the company's hybrid project, one that transfers the consciousness of terminally ill children into synthetic bodies. We see the character become a kind of Peter Pan figure, naming his facility Neverland, developing his hybrid troupe of "Lost Boys" led by Wendy (Sydney Chandler), and reading J.M. Barrie's story to them each night. Blenkin said he worked with costumer designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb to craft playsuits for Boy Kavalier to complete the show's Peter Pan theme: "Originally we were almost going to go for pyjamas, going full Peter Pan vibes, and we came up with these brilliant playsuits."

Exactly what drives Boy Kavalier will be unravelled over the course of Alien: Earth. We get a small clue in episode 2, when he describes his need to win the "intelligence race." "People always think it's about money with trillionaires. Or ego. You know what I really want? I want to talk to somebody smarter than me," he says in a scene, munching away at an apple. "At the very least my hope is that by giving Wendy a supercomputer for a brain and training by the best geniuses money can buy, I'll finally be able to have an interesting fucking conversation."

You can watch Mashable's interview with Blenkin, as well as Hawley's insight into the opening scene of Alien: Earth, below:

Alien: Earth premieres Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu and FX with two episodes, then weekly on Tuesdays.