Resident Alien Stars Sound Off on New Love for SYFY Original: "We've Leveled Up"

Josh Weiss
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Resident Alien Stars Sound Off on New Love for SYFY Original: "We've Leveled Up"
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With SYFY's Resident Alientelevision series/a more popular than ever, emstrongSYFY WIRE /strong/emrecentlycaught up with three of the show's principal cast members — a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/sara-tomko" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/sara-tomko" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/sara-tomko" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Sara Tomko/a (Asta Twelvetrees), a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/cast/alice-wetterlund" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/cast/alice-wetterlund" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/cast/alice-wetterlund" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Alice Wetterlund/a (D'Arcy Bloom), and a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/corey-reynolds" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/corey-reynolds" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/corey-reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Corey Reynolds/a (Sheriff Mike Thompson) — to see how they've begun to cope with their newfound notoriety. As Wetterlund puts it: "We've leveled up."/p h2emResident Alien /emStars React to SYFY Show's Rise in Popularity/h2 pIronically, Tomko admitted that before the premiere of Season 3, most fans would happily greet her in public. Now, however, the actress just gets "weird looks" from people who seemingly feel she's too famous to be approached. "[We're at]a place where people feel like they can’t say hello," Tomko added. "I’m telling you right now, you can always say hello!"/p p"It’s been good," Wetterlund echoed on the same Zoom call. "I stream on Twitch and I do a lot of that goofy internet stuff and I’m all for it. The fans of this show — at least the ones that have reached out to me — I just love them. They’re the coolest people ever and they’re so fun to talk to. The more the merrier as far as I’m concerned."/p pstrongFor More on emResident Alien/em:/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/alan-tudyk-speaking-behind-the-scenes-in-full-resident-alien-makeup" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/alan-tudyk-speaking-behind-the-scenes-in-full-resident-alien-makeup" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/alan-tudyk-speaking-behind-the-scenes-in-full-resident-alien-makeup" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Resident Alien's Alan Tudyk Talking in Full Alien Makeup Behind-the-Scenes Is Hilariously Unsettling/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-alan-tudyk-edi-pattersons-kiss-improvised" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-alan-tudyk-edi-pattersons-kiss-improvised" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-alan-tudyk-edi-pattersons-kiss-improvised" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Resident Alien’s Hilarious Kiss Between Alan Tudyk and Edi Patterson? It Was Totally Improvised/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-star-linda-hamilton-heaps-praise-on-showrunner-and-alan-tudyk" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-star-linda-hamilton-heaps-praise-on-showrunner-and-alan-tudyk" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-star-linda-hamilton-heaps-praise-on-showrunner-and-alan-tudyk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Linda Hamilton on Her Resident Alien Role: "I'm Not the Funny Girl, I'm the Straight Man"/a/strong/p p/p pReynolds, meanwhile, knew it was only a matter of time until the show gained the sizable following it has now./p p"I knew this show was a gem from the very beginning. From the very first time I read the pilot, [I thought] it was so different," he said on a separate call. "It had such a unique voice. So funny, but heartfelt at the same time. And, of course, it makes sense because I'm a huge emFamily Guy /emfan. [Showrunner Chris Sheridan's] whole writing technique and style… I think it was recognized on a subconscious level. I just gravitated towards it. I'm just glad that more people are now getting the opportunity to enjoy it."/p pHe continued: "Television’s become so weird lately. Everybody watches in different ways and there's so much out there that sometimes it's hard to break through [and say], ‘Hey, man, put that phone down for one second.' Or, ‘Watch this on your phone.’ It’s given [us] a wider audience and we're happy for that, because I think these are great stories to share. I think there's enough in this show for anybody who likes any type of show. If you like a comedy, we’ve obviously got that. If you like the drama and you want to cry, we can do that, too. If you like the sci-fi component, we can do that. The investigative side, the character-driven side. It's unique, but beautiful in its uniqueness."/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="90fc43a3-6215-4ad1-8085-a59fab109aee" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/resident_alien_aan_tudyk.jpg" width="862" height="575" alt="Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk) eats pizza in Resident Alien Season 3 Episode 1." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk) appears in Resident Alien Season 3 Episode 1. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: SNEAK PEEK: Harry: The Government's New Employee of the Month | Resident Alien (S3 E1) | SYFY YouTube /span /div /div /div /div h2How to Watch SYFY'semResident Alien/em/h2 p/p pNew episodes ofemResident Alien/emSeason 3 aira href="https://www.syfy.com/resident-alien" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"onstrongSYFY/strong/aWednesdays at 10/9c./p pBased ona href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/what-is-syfy-resident-alien-tv-show-based-on" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"the Dark Horse-published comic book series/aof the same name by writer Peter Hogan and illustrator Steve Parkhouse, the critically-acclaimed show was developed for television by showrunner andemFamily Guy/emalumnus, Chris Sheridan. He also serves as an executive producer alongside Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg of Dark Horse Entertainment; Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank of Amblin TV; Robert Duncan McNeill; and Nastaran Dibai/p