John fell in love with the Beta he saved (Lenina, played by Jessica Brown Findlay) but still struggled with many ways of life in New London, including how everyone shut off their moods through a drug called Soma and especially how some people were created simply to serve others in the system.

He traveled there with them, and was seen as both a hot commodity and a virus, depending on who you asked.

In the nine-episode first season of the futuristic dystopia, John saved an Alpha and a Beta from New London from a bloody attack during their vacation to the Savage Lands, where he grew up, only for him to learn that his true roots were in the caste-driven system of New London too. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “ Brave New World,” streaming now on Peacock.Īlden Ehrenreich is no stranger to stepping into the worlds of iconic intellectual property: In 2013 he starred in the big-screen adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s “Beautiful Creatures” and in 2018 joined the “ Star Wars” universe as the titular Han Solo in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Now, comes his first television series regular role as John the Savage in David Wiener’s take on Aldous Huxley’s early 1930s novel “Brave New World.”

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