When she makes the decision to leave her job, how is she feeling? When she gets to this new place and meets Matteo, what is she hoping and looking for?ĪLLO: I think she’s just mostly trying to stay alive. Nora is in a very different place this season, after everything that happened last season. So, there’s that feeling now of, “Okay, I appreciate technology for everything that it can do, but also have to be able to take a step back.” Taking phone breaks or social media breaks, and having that balance, helps to really appreciate the tech. Through that, I think she also learns balance. Season 2 finds Nora where she’s living with the Ludds and all technology is gone. It really gives an appreciation for the beauty of technology. We’re connecting with loved ones on FaceTime. With Nora and Nathan, their ability to communicate through VR and through their hand phones is so crazy similar to now. It’s given me an appreciation for technology, especially now. I’m pretty sure Greg Daniels is a psychic. The cast and I are on a group text together, and at least once a month, we’re texting each other some funny thing that’s happening in the world, that happened in our show. It’s really interesting, the similarities between Upload and what’s happening now. RELATED: Upload Season 2 Review: A Shorter, Deeper Dive Into the Metaverse What was it like coming back to this virtual world, after experiencing an actual pivot to virtual living during the pandemic? Does that give you a different appreciation for the story? Does it make you think about any of it any differently?ĪLLO: Oh, yeah. And I get to work with such amazing people, so they make it easy to just jump back in. As an actor, you don’t have to do much of the heavy lifting because they’ve done a lot of it for you. I have to credit Greg Daniels and the writers for building a world that feels easy. It was like getting those training wheels back on, but it was effortless. There were some nerves coming back into it of, “Okay, do I remember how to act?” It had forever since I acted in something, just with the lockdown and the pandemic. Maybe I needed a little bit of a refresher. Nora is one of those characters that just sat in my body so well and just fit. Was this a character that was pretty easy for you to find again, or did you have to remember who she was at all?ĪNDY ALLO: It was pretty easy. During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, Allo talked about the nerves of returning to this world and character, after a break due to the pandemic, the interesting similarities between the show and the world we now live in, Nora’s journey in Season 2, how much she was aware of all the twists and turns of the story, where things are left between Nathan and Nora, and what she’d like to see in a possible Season 3.Ĭollider: You had a bit of a break between Season 1 and Season 2.

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