I heard a rumor that you watched all the new episodes of The Umbrella Academy before listening to this podcast.

Otherwise, things will be all the all the all.

In this season of behind the scenes, we've talked to the creative geniuses behind the Umbrella Academy comic books, the writers of the Netflix television show, the people who find and design the show's sets, and the team who creates the musical moments. But if you strip away the incredible effects,

the massive explosions, the intense fight scenes, and the unexpected song choices, you'll find that at at its heart this show is a family drama.

A show about the complicated sometimes twisted relationships between seven siblings

and the people they become intertwined with.

So, for our final episode, we talked to some of the actors who brought these characters to life.

Hello, my name is Aidan Gallagher and I play Number 5.

Hi, my name is Justin H. Min and I play Ben Hargreaves.

Hello there, my name is Tom Hopper and I play Luther Hargreaves.

My name is Kate Walsh and I hold the boom on Umbrella Academy. I'm just kidding. I play the handler.

And I'm Brandon Jenkins, the host of the behind-the-scenes podcast. Today we'll learn how these incredible actors came to the show, how they created their

characters, and how it need to do much research. I umbrella academy very much as a fan

so when you first encountered the books I'm curious was who was your favorite character oh no

doubt five what about him appealed to you when you saw like, okay, like I'm a fan of the books, but now I have to embody this, I have to carry on this torch.

Five is this brilliant tortured mind that spent 45 years alone and then went on a killing

rampage throughout history.

And he's one of the most deadly one of the most cruel brilliant

coolest characters that I've ever had the privilege to read about and the fact that I got to play him was a very interesting

challenge. I'm 14 days older than him. I have seen he already here so it is me

you should be listening to Luther. I'm the daddy here. When I first got the

script I wasn't expecting the world to be nearly as developed or as in-depth as the comic book was because naturally when you

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