Welcome to My Favorite Scene! In this series, IndieWire speaks to actors behind a few of our favorite Emmy-nominated television performances about their personal-best onscreen moment and how it came together.Jeevan Chaudhary, brought to tender life by Himesh Patel, is a man of inaction who’s constantly pushed into action.
When we first meet the bearded Chicagoan in “Station Eleven,” he’s at a staged production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” when the lead actor (Gael García Bernal) collapses and only Jeevan can see that he’s no longer performing.
After the play is canceled, he encounters a young actress, Kirsten (Matilda Lawler), who needs help getting home.
But as they ride an eerily quiet L train and wander through emptying, snow-covered streets, it becomes clear her parents aren’t waiting for her.
Jeevan will have to step up.
He’ll have to keep them alive, when everyone around them is dying.
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