Westworld: Serac is not a secret host, according to the guy who plays him
If you’ve been watching the third season of Westworld on HBO, then you’ve met one of its newest shady characters, tech gazillionaire Engerraund Serac (Vincent Cassel). Called the richest man in the world, Serac co-created — and now owns — the super-computer Rehoboam, which catalogs all human behavior and charts out a path for everyone on the planet, whether they want it or not.
He’s also making a play to acquire Delos. As part of his plan, he’s using Maeve (Thandie Newton) to track down Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and retrieve the key to all the data Delos had collected on the people who visit their parks. He’s a busy man.
Before Sunday night’s episode, “The Mother of Exiles,” Serac had mainly appeared via hologram glasses, leaving some fans to wonder if he was even a human at all. Could he be a digital avatar of Rehoboam? Is he some kind of new host hellbent on destroying Dolores and her robot uprising?
Look, these aren’t crazy questions to ask on this show. We’re constantly finding out that people we thought were human are actually machines, like Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright) or Ashley Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) just a couple weeks back. Of course people are wondering about the mysterious Frenchmen who appeared from nowhere and appears to be pulling everyone’s strings.
“Well, I think that the show proposes such a crazy world where everything is possible,” Cassel told SyFy Wire. “I think it can drive the audience to think that would be a possibility, because there is stuff like that in the show. But then again, it’s not the case. He is a real guy.”
“He is a real guy.” Case closed, I suppose.
OR IS IT? Even if Serac is human, who’s to say Dolores couldn’t hunt him down by the end of the season and replace him with a host version of himself, with a copy of her own brain running things from behind the eyes? Yes, it’s confusing, but that’s Westworld.
Westworld season 3 continues this Sunday with Episode 305, “Genre.”
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