Lance Reddick on Joining Resident Evil Universe and Playing the Many Sides of Albert Wesker

From creator Andrew Dabb, the Netflix series Resident Evil (which hails from the popular media franchise created by Capcom) serves as the third live-action adaptation set in this universe. The show, which takes its backstory and lore from the video games but branches off into its own original continuity, is set over a perspective of dual timelines, one taking place in our present and one set in a semi-distant future. In 2022, Dr. Albert Wesker (Lance Reddick) and his two daughters, Jade (Tamara Smart) and Billie (Siena Agudong) have recently relocated to a new planned community known as New Raccoon City, a vision established by the mysterious Umbrella Corporation — to which Wesker serves as an executive and researcher publicly tasked with the creation of a new product known as “Joy.“ In secret, however, Wesker is seeking to engineer a response to the epidemic of something called the “T-virus.“ Meanwhile, Jade and Billie, suspicious of their father’s actual work, start digging in