Simon Helberg Performs “Maladjusted Genius” In AMC’s The Audacity

Simon Helberg, who performed Howard Wolowitz in The Large Bang Idea, reveals he’s taking part in one other “maladjusted genius” in his upcoming present The Audacity. The darkly comedic AMC drama collection is about in Silicon Valley and follows billionaires and tech bros as their ambitions and egos collide.

Throughout Selection‘s annual summit on the Client Electronics Present in Las Vegas, Helberg described his character, Martin Phister, as a former teenage prodigy who’s now an grownup obsessive about perfecting an artificially clever companion. He additionally hints that the character is a recluse and struggling to lift his teenage daughter. Take a look at Helberg’s feedback beneath:

My character, Martin, like many individuals most likely within the Valley is a little bit of a maladjusted genius. Went to Stanford at 15, made a bit of cash early on in tech, and now he spends each waking minute locked in his storage with an AI companion that he’s creating to assist alienated youngsters. However he has his personal alienated teenager daughter who he fully neglects and all the opposite folks round him too. He’s a little bit of a recluse. And there’s loneliness on the coronary heart of all of the characters, and so they’re all attempting to attach, and so they’re attempting to attach by means of expertise, which has some pitfalls.

The Audacity‘s Martin sounds considerably harking back to Howard, particularly in The Large Bang Idea‘s earlier seasons earlier than he began relationship Bernadette Rostenkowski (Melissa Rauch) and slowly started to mature. Like Howard, Martin is sensible whereas additionally being socially challenged and lonely.

As a father and having already made a fortune within the expertise trade, Martin is at a distinct stage of life than Howard was when he was first launched. Nonetheless, they seemingly have among the similar core traits and so they go about attempting to make connections in misguided methods.

Helberg is a part of a solid that additionally contains Billy Magnussen, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Goldberg, Lucy Punch, Rob Corddry, Meaghan Rath, Paul Adelstein, Everett Blunck, Thailey Roberge, and Ava Marie Telek. Randall Park can even visitor star because the CFO of an information mining operation. First-look photos of Helberg and different solid members have been by AMC launched and will be seen beneath:

The Audacity is created by Jonathan Glatzer, an Emmy Award-winning producer and author whose earlier credit embody HBO’s Succession and AMC’s Higher Name Saul. The general tone and premise of the ultra-wealthy in competitors bears some similarities to Succession, which can seemingly assist with discovering an viewers.

Glatzer is the showrunner and author of the collection, together with being an govt producer. He’s joined by govt producer Gina Mingacci, who beforehand labored on AMC’s Killing Eve. There might be eight episodes, with the primary premiering on AMC and AMC+ on April 12, and new episodes might be launched weekly.

For Helberg, The Audacity will not be his first collection since The Large Bang Idea resulted in 2019. His credit in newer years embody a voice cameo as Howard in Younger Sheldon, reuniting with Rauch in an episode of Evening Court docket, and starring in a number of episodes of American Dad! and Peacock’s homicide thriller present Poker Face.