Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt are engaging with our technological realities within the fantastical in The Electric State . The stars of the new Netflix movie told Blavity/Shadow and Act Managing Editor Trey Mangum how the Russo Brothers brought them into the world of sentient robots and how that world reflects our current fears about technology. Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt on ‘The Electric State’ “I think that the filmmakers did an incredible job of exploring some kind of scary themes around technology, around our dependence upon technology and our lack of connection with real humanity,” Pratt said. “We’re divorcing ourselves from reality in a way and being passively entertained to death, and I get that. But that’s not something you really like talking about. It feels a little lecture-y and a little preachy, and so to be able to wrap that message in sort of the beauty and the tasty candy hamburger of this film, I think, was a real feat to be able to pull off.” Brown also...
