LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Physicality was one of the challenges Simu Liu faced in his new streaming series The Copenhagen Test, premiering Saturday on Peacock. Liu, 36, plays Alexander Hale, an intelligence analyst who gets thrown into field work when his brain is hacked by covert operatives.
The hackers can see everything Alexander looks at and hear everything he hears. In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Liu said this predicament made him aware of how Alexander uses his body to take the power back.
"They think that I don't know what's happening," Liu said. "When I control what I see and what I hear, I can control the flow of information."
Alexander always wanted to be a field agent. Writer and executive producer Jennifer Yale said the hack allows him to fulfill his potential.
"It's the ultimate mission," Yale said. "It's the mission that no one else has ever had before and I think that is exciting for that character and for us to watch."
