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Jesse Plemons

The Friday Night Lights and Breaking Bad alum, 29, has two big roles this winter: he stars in an episode of the latest season of Black Mirror as a space captain whose sexism makes victims of his whole team and appears opposite Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg’s The Post.

In Black Mirror, you play a Captain Kirk–like character, except evil. Were you already a sci-fi fan? Not really—my sci-fi was westerns growing up. The most important thing

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