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March 9 - 15, 2019—3 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN March 9 - 15, 2019 — 3 2 x 3.5" ad a) greene cnty farmers b) swango's 2 x 4" ad williams electric 2 x 1.5" ad ymca 2 x 1.5" ad doughty stevens By George Dickie Ulysses is a man adrift. As played by Avan Jogia ("Tut," "Twisted") in the trippy coming- of-age comedy series "Now Apoca - lypse," created and executive pro- duced by Greg Araki ("Kaboom," "Mysterious Skin") and premiering Sunday, March 10, on Starz, he's a Millennial gay man searching for himself and fame in Los Angeles — when he's not hooking up with lovers and indulging his love of marijuana. Alongside him on their own quests are pals Carly (Kelli Ber - glund, "Lab Rats"), a struggling actress stuck in a dead-end relation- ship with a self-absorbed boyfriend; Ford (Beau Mirchoff, "Awkward"), a pretty boy aspiring screenwriter and Uly's best friend from college; and Ford's girlfriend Severine (Roxane Mesquida, "Gossip Girl"), a dedi- cated NASA scientist and French transplant. All are in search of goals com- mon to young adults, namely life, love and lots of sex. But what Uly's friends don't have in common with him are his disturbing visions of impending apocalypse and an alien conspiracy — which he suspects may be a product of his THC- saturated brain. "I think that paranoia is such a theme in this show," says Jogia, "and what I like about this show is that you're not sure whether this is re- ally happening or not, like whether these alien visions are real." While he may be questioning his own sanity, there is no doubt about Uly's sex drive. "I kind of explain him as sort of a sexual astronaut," Jogia says. "He's exploring the reaches of the world around him and he's excited about it and it's something he takes a lot of joy and passion in. And he's trying to find love, on Grindr, on apps. That's sort of a hard thing in this day and age. And I think that he's kind of like the most traditional, funnily enough, of all the characters because he just wants to be loved and to love someone. And the other characters, I think, are going through more of an exploration even in a way than he is." Indeed, while Carly combats bore- dom/earns an extra buck doing sexy webcam performances and Severine questions her relationship with Ford, Uly drifts along from hook-up to hook-up, until one night while walking home he stumbles upon what appears to be a man having sex with a lizard-like alien. Freaked, he confides in Carly what he saw. She's skeptical. "She loves him to death but just thinks he's so high that he's seeing things," Berglund says. "Doesn't believe it, is like, 'OK, maybe you stop smoking so much weed.' And I don't know if there's a moment where she sees the whole alien thing for herself. ... Like is it a metaphor or is it real? It could be both." "She keeps me tethered to like some sort of reality," Jogia adds. "And I smoke more pot and then less pot and more pot and less pot throughout the show and you see a difference. So it's sort of interesting to figure out if this is all happening at all. But I think Carly is definitely someone who grounds him and anchors him." Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Scoop A young Angeleno pursues sex, love and a possible alien conspiracy in 'Now Apocalypse' Cover Story Cover Story By George Dickie Actors have their own ways of creat- ing characters and no two are the same. For some, all the information they need is in the script and they take it from there. For oth- ers, donning the uniform and letting their imagination take over works for them. And for still others, if it's a real person, there's no replacement for meet- ing the man or woman they're portraying. For Martin Clunes of Acorn TV's British crime drama "Manhunt," which begins streaming Monday, March 11, the key came in spending time with the subject of his portrayal, London police detective Co- lin Sutton, who spearheaded the investigation into a young woman's murder in 2004, which is the storyline of the three-part miniseries. But it came with some trepidation on the part of the portrayed. Checking in with Martin Clunes "I think it was uncomfortable for him," explains Clunes, a 57-year-old Londoner, "because when we first met, I think he was sort of aware that I was kind of scanning him. ... And hard for him, I think maybe (because) this silly guy off the telly is about to be him and he's sort of handing over a section of his life to us to portray. "But he's really nice," he con- tinues. "I mean, he's as friendly as I hope he appears because I've never met him in the work environment. I've just met him socially so I have to imagine what he's like. But I think I know what he's like when he's working because's he's got a steely, dogged side to him. "But he's my way in to the whole thing, the idea of getting around him and showing how it really happens, written from the horse's mouth." Full name: Alexander Martin Clunes Birth date: Nov. 28, 1961 Birthplace: Wimbledon, South London Alma mater: Arts Educational Schools in London Family ties: He and his wife, "Manhunt" producer Philippa Braithwaite, have a 20-year- old daughter, Emily; father is Shakespearean actor Alec Clunes; uncle is actor Jeremy Brett ("My Fair Lady") TV credits include: "Doc- tor Who," "Jeeves and Wooster," "Gone to the Dogs," "Lovejoy," "Doc Mar- tin," "William and Mary," "Reggie Perrin," "A Mother's Son," "Strike Back," "Brit- ish Men Behaving Badly," "Arthur & George," "Vanity Fair" Movie credits include: "The Russia House" (1990), "Swing Kids" (1993), "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), "Saving Grace" (2000), "Rock My World" (2002), "Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?!" 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