In Netflix’s Lost In Space season 3, husband and wife duo Maureen (Molly Parker) and John Robinson (Toby Stephens), along with mechanic Don West (Ignacio Serricchio), are stranded on board their makeshift Sunshine base with the remaining colonists in uncharted alien space attempting to reunite with the children of The Resolute and evade the alien Robot army residing on the surrounding planets. After Will (Maxwell Jenkins), Judy (Taylor Russell), and Penny (Mina Sundwall) are forced to evacuate with Robot and the 97 children from the Resolute on board the Jupiter 2 at the end of season 2, Maureen, John, and Don face not only the emotional test of being separated from their family, but the mental test of cooperating as a team without every Robinson accounted for in season 3.
Screen Rant spoke with Lost In Space’s Molly Parker, Toby Stephens, and Ignacio Serricchio to discuss how their characters are tested emotionally in season 3, the season 2 cliffhanger involving Grant Kelly, and what they’ll personally miss most about portraying members of the iconic Robinson family now that they’ve entered the final season.
Screen Rant: It’s a bit of an understatement to say that all three of your characters have had a complicated relationship with Parker Posey’s Dr. Smith. Now that it’s been revealed that she’s alive in the season 3 trailer, how do each of your characters feel about her survival?
Molly Parker: We don’t really know she’s alive. At least in the beginning of the season, you know, we’ve sent the kids off. I think [Dr. Smith] sacrificed herself to save us somewhere at the end of last season. It does kind of piss Maureen off eventually [laughs] when she finds out, she’s like, "How could you?"
Ignacio Serricchio: Yeah, Don West has got bigger problems than Dr. Smith. I don’t think we ever had any kind of confrontation or anything. It’s like, "You do your thing. I do my thing and stay out of my way." I think they kind of establish that early on because they’re both kind of similar.
Molly, season 2 ends with the discovery of the missing ship Fortuna. If Grant Kelly is still alive, how do you think Maureen would react being reunited with Judy’s father after all these years?
Molly Parker: You know, I think it’s a complicated question. Judy’s father was an astronaut and is presumed dead and lost. This show is really about family and obviously not just the sort of blood family of the Robinsons, but everyone that they’ve sort of become connected to throughout these seasons. And every scene that you play is sort of complicated by the fact that usually, you’re in some kind of situation where you’re also about to die potentially - so if Maureen could have a conversation with him, you know, who knows what they might talk about, but likely if she ever does have a conversation with him, they will also be about to die. So there’s a lot. It always makes it slightly more complex.
Ignacio, being an honorary member of the Robinson family has challenged some of Don’s core principles, like "Never raise your hand" or "Never, ever be too good at anything." How do you think the Robinsons have changed him from the first to the final season?
Ignacio Serricchio: I think that they’ve proved to him that you don’t have to do anything on your own, that there’s still people that can care about you and not betray you, and that teamwork is better than “me-work.”- I just made it up.
Lost In Space is also a love letter of sorts to classic Sci-Fi movies given the references to Jurassic Park, Aliens, and Star Wars. Will we see that same theme continued into season 3?
Molly Parker: Oh, I think so. Our writers and creators, they just love that stuff. There’s one scene in particular where I was quite specifically given the note of like, "She walks in à la The Right Stuff." They always have these connections [and] little homages to things that have come before.
Now that Lost In Space has reached its third and final season, what is one thing you’ll miss most about playing a Robinson?
Molly Parker: Just being around each other, you know. This is an incredible group of people to work with over the course of these three seasons and to have an opportunity to watch the kids growing up and just be a part of each other’s lives and just even these guys sort of bugging me the way they always did, I miss.
Toby Stephens: I think when you finish doing something like this, you have this family that you have on-screen and they sort of become almost like that in life. You’ve seen them regularly over the course of five years and then suddenly that thing comes to an end and you kind of miss a step, and you’re like, "Well, I mean surely I should see them." After we do this junket, we won’t have another thing to do together, as it were. And I mean I know that I’ll see them all separately, but it’s kind of weird thinking, "Oh, I’m not going to get to see them all the time" because you know you did for five years.
In season 1, Maureen and John’s love for their children really rekindles their relationship. How has being separated from Will, Penny, and Judy affected all of the progress they’ve made in their marriage?
Toby Stephens: Well I think it really jeopardizes it right at the beginning of the third season because I think for them without the children there is a sort of thing of like, "What’s the point?" I think John’s trying to fight it, really trying hard to fight it, and trying to make contact somehow with his wife. I think, quite understandably, she’s just not capable of doing that.
I like the beginning of the season because there’s a real jeopardy of their marriage, of things breaking down and I like the way that they are hopefully kind of like a real couple. They do seem like a real couple, with real couples’ problems and real marriages' problems. That I think people can really relate to. You know the kids watch the kids and the adults watch the adults, you know - [laughs] and the kids. But you need the adult audience, which there are a lot of them out there, to relate them to.
While Don is an honorary member of the Robinsons, he’s not officially a colonist. How do you think Don will feel being separated from his Robinson family if they ever get to settle in Alpha Centauri?
Ignacio Serricchio: I think there’s a part of him that is always prepared for I guess the bad news and for separation and for people abandoning him so I think there’s always a part - that survival instinct - that part of him that’s always ready for that. If the Robinsons come up and [they’re] like, "Look, there’s no room in our guest house anymore", I think it would hurt, but he would be ready for it.
Molly Parker: We wouldn’t do that.
Ignacio Serricchio: Not the guest house? [laughs]
Molly Parker: Maybe the dog house.
Ignacio Serricchio: No, not that you would. I always think there’s always a little bit of that, "Well, this is too good to be true" kind of thing.
Lost in Space season 3 premieres December 1 on Netflix.
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