Justin Theroux On The Leftovers’ Resurgence 11 Years Later

Actor Justin Theroux has reacted to his HBO collection The Leftovers discovering a brand new viewers 11 years later. The Leftovers aired for 3 seasons from 2014 to 2017. Theroux performed Kevin Garvey, a police officer compelled to cope with the aftermath of the Sudden Departure, a stunning occasion that led to 2% of everyone on Earth disappearing with out a hint.

It has been virtually a decade since The Leftovers ended, however followers nonetheless come as much as Theroux to ask in regards to the collection. In an interview with ScreenRant‘s Ash Crossan for Fallout season 2, the actor mentioned that it seems like The Leftovers is extra related than ever and noticed a resurgence in reputation across the time of the 2024 election.

Theroux revealed that he retains “getting stopped rather a lot” by followers to speak about The Leftovers. It wasn’t simply across the election, although. Through the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when extra folks had been at residence looking for methods to entertain themselves and preserve busy, a brand new viewers found The Leftovers. “Folks had the chance to binge it,” he defined.

The Leftovers was a collection that at all times acquired constructive evaluations, with a 91% Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics and 90% from audiences. Some critics went so far as to name The Leftovers the best TV present of all time.

The collection was even nominated for a number of honors, together with on the Critics’ Alternative Awards, Emmys, Tv Critics Affiliation Awards and Writers Guild of America Awards. Theroux himself was nominated for Finest Actor on the Critics’ Alternative Awards in 2016.

Regardless of all that constructive recognition, Theroux nonetheless considers The Leftovers to be a “deep minimize” TV present, and he typically wonders why the collection experiences a resurgence at occasions. “It should have simply popped up on some streamer,” he questioned.

Having mentioned that, HBO Max is the one streaming service the place The Leftovers is accessible. (It will also be considered on Prime Video, however customers nonetheless want an HBO Max subscription to entry the present.)

ScreenRant: With The Leftovers, it feels prefer it has extra reputation than ever. Do you discover that?

Justin Theroux: Yeah, I do. Typically you may really feel it. Weirdly, across the election, folks had been watching extra. I used to be getting stopped rather a lot. Through the pandemic, particularly. Folks had the chance to binge it. And typically it’s only a bizarre deep minimize somebody mentions and also you assume, “Oh, it should have simply popped up on some streamer.”

Except for being an entertaining collection, The Leftovers enthralled critics and audiences alike attributable to its profound themes and messages on grief, religion and humanity. Hundreds of thousands of individuals abruptly disappearing led to the characters on The Leftovers posing philosophical questions and questioning their place within the universe.

When a world pandemic occurred in the true world by way of a coronavirus illness that nobody had seen earlier than, inflicting over 7 million deaths, it is no marvel {that a} present like The Leftovers appeared extraordinarily related, as Theroux famous.

After The Leftovers resulted in 2017, Theroux went on to star in films like The Spy Who Dumped Me, On the Foundation of Intercourse, Bumblebee, Girl and the Tramp and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, in addition to TV exhibits like The Mosquito Coast, White Home Plumbers and Operating Level.

He can subsequent be seen in Fallout season 2, premiering on December 17, and in The Satan Wears Prada 2, which will likely be launched in theaters in Could 2026.

But it surely’s his position in The Leftovers that has followers revisiting the dramatic storylines, intriguing characters and daring themes years after the collection has ended.

Fallout season 2 premieres Wednesday, December 17 on Prime Video.