Collider: Im very excited about this show, and I love how familiar and yet new it feels.
That can be a very tricky balance, so it was cool to see how thats achieved.
Do you wonder why?
Are you immediately intrigued?
When its a reboot, are you more hesitant or more curious than you normally would be?
What went through your mind when you saw thatQuantum Leapwould be coming back?
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LEE: All of that.
My first thought was, Are you sure you want me?
I read the pilot script, and our original pilot got retooled now to be episode six.
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Everything felt right, when I read the script.
I didnt wanna say no.
It was absolutely a yes, from the start.
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Im just so happy that we are where we are now.
Did you have a moment when you felt like that was working?
LEE: It was right from the start.
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Our producers and our casting director had done such an incredible job with casting the perfect people.
How do you feel?
Are you up to the task?
And I was like, Oh, my gosh!
Everyones already so much of their characters.
It just felt right.
When we hit the pavement, we were off.
The journey has now taken us to the Universal lot with our own stages.
To answer your question, it just felt right, right from the start.
So then, how are you leading the show?
Does that make it feel like an even bigger responsibility, to be at the head of all that?
Its not anything Ive done before, so I have nothing to reference.
I can only look to those who Ive been under the leadership of, who Ive really admired.
Somehow, were here now, shooting episode seven, and not everything has gone to crap yet.
Were still here, so were winning, in that sense.
Do you guys do anything to always welcome the new cast, for each time hes leaping?
I like to tease and say that I am the perpetual guest star in their episodes.
If anything, Im the new person in their world, and I like to treat it like that.
Im trying to fit into their world.
I have to be the chameleon.
Our culture on set also needs to slightly shift, for what is happening.
Everything has to say liquid and malleable.
The premise of this show allows for things to constantly be changing.
LEE: Its been extremely fun.
First of all, these are the roles of a lifetime.
I get to check off an actors bucket list with every leap.
As the mythology goes, Im able to physically perform the way the person I leap into can.
That has been the great challenge, for each of these episodes.
Its something thats ever-changing and ever-evolving because my way into a persons body is different, each time around.
I find it, as I go along.
Theyre like, Can you juggle?
The writers are also leaning into my skill sets.
Manifesting it seems really unique.
LEE: Yes, absolutely.
You absolutely nailed it.
Its about holding true to what this person might be like.
From the beginning, theres a bit of a mystery around why Ben made the decision to do this.
Do you know what that reason is yet?
Have you been told, or are you left to your own theories?
LEE: I have chosen not to know.
I want to find out as Ben finds out.
Im only using the information thats been given to me, from whats been in the scripts.
Is it hard not to venture to come up with theories?
Do you guys talk about it, as a cast?
LEE: Some of them might know.
I just like secrets.
I also dont want it to affect my performance.
Whats it like to get to play with that connection while also establishing this as its own thing?
LEE: Its already in the writing.
Im not so much in control of that.
Im just the perpetual fish outta water that is gasping for air with every episode and every scene.
LEE: Thank you.
I had theTrue Liessong playing in my head, the whole time.
Thats all I was thinking about.
Quantum Leapairs on Monday nights on NBC and is available to stream at Peacock.
