Catch up with the cast of The Umbrella Academy as they chat about the epic journey of filming the series, what it’s meant to them, and what fans can expect from the final season.
Join Elliot Page, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Tom Hopper, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and more as they reflect on their characters' growth, behind-the-scenes stories, and the wild ride that’s been this hit show.
Don’t miss out—The Umbrella Academy is now streaming on Netflix, and this season promises to go out with a bang as the Hargreeves siblings face their toughest challenge yet!
Join Elliot Page, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Tom Hopper, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, and more as they reflect on their characters' growth, behind-the-scenes stories, and the wild ride that’s been this hit show.
Don’t miss out—The Umbrella Academy is now streaming on Netflix, and this season promises to go out with a bang as the Hargreeves siblings face their toughest challenge yet!
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00:00I'm so excited to be with the cast of the Umbrella Academy.
00:04How are we doing today?
00:06Very good. Very good. Yeah.
00:07Dancing. Very good.
00:09Energized. You know, free tea and coffee.
00:11Absolutely. What more could you ask for?
00:13Yeah. What has it meant for both of you to be a part of this incredible series?
00:17I mean, it has a wonderful fan base.
00:19It has so much heart to it.
00:21So just what has it really meant?
00:22What is, you know, it affected your life?
00:26Oh, man. Yeah.
00:28I mean, we were saying this yesterday, you know, it's been four seasons, right?
00:32But it's actually been like seven, nearly eight years of our lives.
00:35So it's been a big old chunk.
00:37So, you know, it's been really special.
00:40I think you get one of these kind of shows once in a blue moon
00:44where you just go, wow, that was really special.
00:47And this was one of them, you know, incredible group.
00:50I'll miss this group dearly.
00:53You know, I absolutely love playing with them on set every day.
00:56And and even doing this with these guys, you know, like just hanging out.
01:00We're a real kind of group of siblings, really, you know, on and off screen.
01:04So it's been it's been wonderful.
01:06I mean, gosh, I the thing I've just been feeling is I just feel so lucky.
01:11I feel so grateful that we got to have these four seasons.
01:16I got to work with such incredible people and to play this character
01:21that every season had such a fantastic arc to dive into
01:26and then to have, you know, personal things in my life happen
01:29and to have that be welcomed into the show and not pushed away
01:33and have that be a part of the show, of course, I'll never forget.
01:35And but yeah, mostly I just feel so lucky to have been
01:40in a group of such amazing people and
01:42part of something that people responded to in such a special way.
01:46Yeah. I think it's had a massive impact on all of us.
01:49You know, it's a solid chunk of time that we've put into making this thing
01:53come together. So, yeah, it definitely gets into you
01:58whether you like it or not.
02:00Yes, it's just been a blessing.
02:01It's been life changing.
02:03Oh, my goodness.
02:04That was just a dream to be doing a show like this
02:08with these kind of people at this scale.
02:10So I am still pinching myself that I've got to have this experience.
02:18It's been a wild, wild ride.
02:20And yeah, very grateful.
02:23I, too, feel just incredibly grateful for
02:27the opportunity to tell Alison's story.
02:29I had never been in front of a camera when I booked this job.
02:33And I I just it the whole seven years of filming it has just been such
02:38an education and a learning experience and a crash course,
02:42especially the first season.
02:45And I think I just feel so grateful that the first kind of on camera job
02:49I ever had, I got to work with the most incredible actors
02:54on on film today, but then also to get to experiment
02:59and like learn how to do my own stunts and do green screen and work with weapons
03:03and and be in love and be angry and be murderous at moments.
03:08And I just got to explore and play.
03:11And and then in season two, having to like move, getting to not even having to.
03:16I got I had the privilege of telling Alison's story
03:18and moving through the civil rights movement
03:20and being able to tell that story through her.
03:23I just I just feel so unbelievably grateful.
03:26And I've just learned so much.
03:28Well, it's definitely given.
03:30It's given me a lot of stability in terms of being an actor.
03:35And so I don't have to
03:38worry on that.
03:39And also, I mean, at least in this moment and also like, you know.
03:44Yeah, I know.
03:46And and also like just though the way my
03:51the way it sort of changed the outlook on my family and how they see the arts,
03:56you know, because, you know, we were never really like the people
03:59that would go and watch theater or I mean, we love films and movies, but
04:04you know, never saw it as a job, you know, and now that that sort of is a possibility.
04:10Absolutely. About you.
04:11So similar. Yeah.
04:12I mean, my parents, my family, no one in my extended family
04:17has any connection to the entertainment industry.
04:21They have no idea what to expect.
04:22Obviously, they were very worried about me when I first started pursuing this.
04:25But I think because of the show, they have just a much better
04:28understanding that this is a viable career
04:32and that I'm very happy doing this and obviously so supportive.
04:38And yeah, the show kind of changed everything.
04:41I mean, it has opened a lot of doors and
04:46yeah, very, very thankful for it.
04:47Yeah. Yeah. I need a hundred dollars, son.
04:51All right. Exactly.
04:52They are asking for way more money.
04:53A lot more money. Yeah.
04:55When Umbrella Academy came out on planet television,
05:00it was like getting a fame booster in the arts, you know, and
05:05that at first I reacted negatively to that.
05:08I started I was quite self-indulgent.
05:10And even though I'd been kind of working my whole life to be a successful actor,
05:14when that degree of fame arrived, it made me kind of miserable for a while.
05:19But what the kind of loveliness of the reaction of the fans
05:23of the show did for me was compel me to sit down and look at the kind of
05:29negative one sided narrative of fame that I've been telling myself
05:33and then rebalance it so that the narrative more accurately reflected reality.
05:39So truly people being kind and complimentary about the show
05:44and about Klaus and everything to me, walking up to me in the street
05:47like telling me they enjoyed my work all over the place,
05:52genuinely helped to get me over myself and my own sort of
05:58self created suffering around the sudden change of fame, you know.
06:04And that was a huge thing.
06:06That was a huge thing that kind of happened over maybe a year and a half,
06:08two years of my life, you know.
06:10And everyone's so excited to see how this season what's going to happen.
06:14And I know you've really grown with these characters over the years.
06:17So I wanted to ask, what advice would you give your season one character?
06:22Chill out, mate.
06:25It ain't that bad.
06:26But there's a lot going on.
06:27Yeah, yeah. He's gone on his shoulders, to be fair.
06:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:32The moon sucks alone as well. It really does.
06:35Yeah. Stop taking so many drugs.
06:38I mean, just be easy on the recreational drugs every now and again,
06:42recreationally, but don't be don't be going overboard.
06:45Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:46And don't become too attached to your father's urn.
06:49You know, there's no. Yeah.
06:50And that goes for all. Yeah, right.
06:53Yeah. It's just it's just a pile of ashes, man.
06:56Move on. Oh, yeah.
06:57I would say relax, buddy.
07:00Relax, have fun.
07:01Yeah. You know, I was so nervous that first season.
07:04Yeah. So, yeah.
07:06Very put a lot of pressure.
07:08Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:09Yeah, I think I would I think I would say,
07:13oh, boy, you have no idea what this is going to turn into.
07:16Why would you want to see that?
07:18That would make him more nervous.
07:19Yeah. But still, I'll be like, you actually you know what?
07:22Maybe I would. Maybe I wouldn't say anything because maybe he would.
07:26Because the thing about it is because I took it so seriously,
07:28that's where the comedy started coming out of.
07:30And I didn't know that there was going to be comedy in that.
07:32And so maybe I wouldn't say anything.
07:34Maybe I'd just like watch and be like, just don't don't drink.
07:39This. Yeah.
07:41Peace over the ice.
07:44I think just be as much of a sponge as you can.
07:47And I think I think
07:50I think you just keep an open mind and have fun.
07:54And and.
07:57Yeah, just like play and enjoy.
08:00And I think that that's, you know, I think coming from theater
08:04specifically where it's so much play, I think I got to TV and film.
08:08It was like, well, this is serious business.
08:10And it is, but it's also OK to try new things and have fun
08:14and experiment and fall on your face because you can always do another take.
08:17Whereas in theater, it's kind of like a one.
08:19You kind of get one chance and then the show's over.
08:22But I think, yeah, to just to just play and not hold the reins so tightly.
08:27Yeah. Yeah. Maybe like I remember I'd get hung up on things like,
08:30oh, when I blow up the moon, like, how is that going to work?
08:34And that's you were really upset about the way that I did.
08:38And then I think what was cool was then I watched it.
08:40I'm like, oh, my God, like it actually really works.
08:43And it's a moment.
08:45And I think it made honestly moving forward.
08:48It's just this sort of more
08:51I guess. Yeah.
08:52The logical part of your brain is going doesn't really make sense
08:56because I did it and it's just like, Elliot, this is it's called the it's
08:59a superhero show.
09:02And anything can happen.
09:03All the incredible people and post and in sound and make this work.
09:09Yeah. And I remember just watching it and being like, oh, wow.
09:12And I think it took out a certain
09:15seriousness of like trying. Yeah.
09:17I was like, yeah.
09:18Well, the first is, you know, especially you don't know what you're making.
09:21Yeah. We didn't know.
09:21It's like if people are going to like it, if it's going to do well.
09:24So there's a lot of pressure to like, get it right.
09:26I was like, really, guys, like the moon.
09:28I was just like,
09:29I was like, what is a boom, a boom, a beam up to the moon?
09:35Yeah. Yeah.
09:37And then and then people loved it.
09:39And we have talking monkeys and exploding moons and ridiculous superpowers.
09:43And that's what makes our show so beautiful is the things
09:46that in the beginning, I think we were questioning.
09:48Right. So if you just let go and have fun, it's so great.
09:51Yeah, absolutely.
09:53And I wanted to ask, I mean, just about your characters specifically,
09:57if you could assign a spirit animal to them, what would you what would you choose?
10:03Should we try each other?
10:04Yes. OK, good idea.
10:06I think that five is a bird.
10:09What kind of bird?
10:11Be specific. Pelican.
10:13OK,
10:15man, I really should have had something prepared.
10:18I just don't say anything.
10:22Me. Damn it.
10:23Playful. Yes.
10:25But I don't know.
10:26Cat's not quite right, but maybe it depends on the cat.
10:29I was going to say, because you're always teasing people.
10:33Yeah.
10:34Lila definitely has like the joy of that.
10:37Yeah. A gorilla.
10:39Yeah. Yeah.
10:40Why?
10:42Because I feel like Diego is sort of just
10:44when he walks into a room, he can bang on walls like that sort of,
10:47you know, just wants to make sure that people know he's there.
10:50So he's not walking in kind of like, oh, what's going on?
10:52He just comes in. He's like, I'm ready to fight.
10:54Anything that comes at me.
10:55But he doesn't attack, you know, like a lion sort of just kind of walks in.
10:59He's like, all right, who wants to fight me?
11:01What about you?
11:02This sounds like a cop out answer, but an octopus because
11:07because, you know,
11:09obviously they're they're just like very smart.
11:13But they're also they can like sort of bend
11:15and mold their body to fit into little crevices and corners.
11:18And I feel like Ben sort of can adapt to his surroundings
11:22and figure out what he needs to do in a certain situation.
11:25I would have wished we saw him in jail and see how he adapted to being in jail.
11:31We want to see like, was he the penetrating kind or?
11:35Let's stop it there.
11:37Thank you so much. Save it for the spinoff.
11:39Yes, we got to have content there.
11:42You're going to eat that soup cup of noodles.
11:44Stop. Just stop.
11:47Spirit, spirit animal.
11:49I think Klaus somewhere in the sort of.
11:55Maybe reptilian is too cold.
12:00Yeah, maybe a
12:03spirit animal trying to think mammals.
12:07Do you know what? Because Klaus is neither one or the other.
12:09Let's go with the duck-billed platypus.
12:11Oh, yes, I feel one.
12:14Yeah, he's kind of half sort of lizard, half bird, half fish.
12:18Yeah, he doesn't know what he is.
12:21I love that. He's the perfect spirit animal.
12:24I mean, on the outside, he's obviously like ape man.
12:28But I think his spirit animal is probably a Labrador.
12:30Yeah, yeah.
12:32Right.
12:33Sky is sweet.
12:34Yeah, just wants to be with his family.
12:37Yeah. Loyal.
12:38Yeah.
12:39What are you excited for fans to see from when this season comes out?
12:44I'm excited for them to see Aidan Gallagher's performances.
12:47Five.
12:48Right. What else could they ask for?
12:51What else do you want to Aria's performance?
12:54Oh, OK.
12:56From the fourth season of Umbrella casting on August 8th.
12:59Oh, my God.
13:00Yeah, I think that we go out with a bang.
13:03There's just so much joy to be had watching it this season.
13:07There's it's heartfelt.
13:09It's funny.
13:12It's very fun.
13:12And it's my favorite season yet, for sure.