Lewitski: The music element of the show has been really intriguing, because it's not every day that you get to apply both your passions - which, for me, is music and acting. But the performance/hip hop aspect of it really set it apart from anything I've ever heard of before, and that was the cherry on top for me. Nekoda: When I first read the synopsis of the show I was intrigued by it all, to be completely honest with you. Is that what drew you both to the project? The show has obvious parallels to Young Adult fiction like The Hunger Games, but what makes it different is the whole dance competition and hip hop aspect of it. ![]() So it's really cool to bring that and apply it to the show. So music was a key component of my upbringing. And I have seven siblings, and each of us all learned out own instrument. I was home-schooled, pretty much my home life. Lewitski: I was born into a fairly musical family. I always joke and say I learned how to dance before I learned how to walk! I started competing in dance when I was 6 and did that for 10 years before I started focusing more on acting. ![]() Nekoda: Yes! I started dancing when I was 2-years-old. You both have backgrounds in the performing arts. I caught up with two of the young stars of Utopia Falls, Devyn Nekoda and Phillip Lewitski, to discuss their roles, and to find out what makes this show special. Along the way, however, they'll discover a centuries-old secret - and what follows will alter the course of the competition forever. Nonetheless, music and dance are two of the key components of Utopia Falls, a new Hulu original series in which a group of young people from the futuristic colony of New Babyl vie to be crowned the Exemplar - in a performing arts competition in which there can be only one champion. When you think of Young Adult science fiction stories set in a dystopian society, the term "dance competition" doesn't usually spring to mind.
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