We’re now only days away from the launch of explosive new Disney+ series Alien: Earth. The series, masterminded by Noah Hawley, debuts with a two-episode premiere on August 13, 2025. Ahead of its launch we sat down with cast members Samuel Blenkin who plays Boy Kavalier and Babou Ceesay who plays Morrow. Over the next few days in the run up to the premiere we’ll be sharing what they had to say about joining this legendary franchise.
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, “Wendy” (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat in FX’s “Alien: Earth.”
Check out the series trailer in the player below. Scroll down to see what Babou Ceesay had to say when we asked him about his mysterious cyborg character Morrow.
NB: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Neil Vagg (GYCO): Morrow has this really wonderful line in episode three where he talks about having the “worst parts of a man” and that’s the first time we get to see a glimpse behind who he is. There are a few more glimpses across the six episodes I’ve seen, but I wonder what you can tell us about who he is and what led him to when we first meet him in the show.
Babou Ceesay: Well the big things I can say without going into spoilers too much is he’s given his life to this mission 65 years in space. He has a deeper drive than maybe the other people on the ship. It isn’t just for a share [of the profit]. He is very deeply connected to Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindiver) the bigger Weyland-Yutani story.
He also has his own personal reasons. It’s not a spoiler to say people know that Morrow lost his daughter. So imagine the weight of that. You’ve left Earth hoping to come back, maybe when she’s in her 80s and something happens to her in your absence that if you were around, maybe that wouldn’t be the case. So you have nothing left now except the mission. Except what you believe in. Except what you sacrificed your life for. If you let that go to waste it would have all been for nothing. So now he’s got this very passionate, deep drive to achieve utility and to make sure that his life has meaning. As much as he hates his human side it’s the human side that knows that. That’s what drives him.
In the year 2120, the Earth is governed by five corporations: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic and Threshold. In this Corporate Era, cyborgs (humans with both biological and artificial parts) and synthetics (humanoid robots with artificial intelligence) exist alongside humans. But the game is changed when the wunderkind Founder and CEO of Prodigy Corporation unlocks a new technological advancement: hybrids (humanoid robots infused with human consciousness). The first hybrid prototype named “Wendy” marks a new dawn in the race for immortality. After Weyland-Yutani’s spaceship collides into Prodigy City, “Wendy” and the other hybrids encounter mysterious life forms more terrifying than anyone could have ever imagined.
Led by Chandler, the series showcases an expansive international cast, which includes Timothy Olyphant (“Kirsh”), Alex Lawther (“Hermit”), Samuel Blenkin (“Boy Kavalier”), Babou Ceesay (“Morrow”), Adrian Edmondson (“Atom Eins”), David Rysdahl (“Arthur Sylvia”), Essie Davis (“Dame Sylvia”), Lily Newmark (“Nibs”), Erana James (“Curly”), Adarsh Gourav (“Slightly”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Smee”), Kit Young (“Tootles”), Diêm Camille (“Siberian”), Moe Bar-El (“Rashidi”) and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Yutani”).
FX’s Alien: Earth is created for television and executive produced by Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning Noah Hawley. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Joseph Iberti, Dana Gonzales and Clayton Krueger also serve as executive producers. “Alien: Earth” is produced by FX Productions.
