Resident Evil: Adeline Rudolph & Paola Núñez on Playing Badass Women

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