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Stars Rebecca Ferguson and Common talk to YOLANTHE FAWEHINMI about what viewers can expect from the third season of sci-fi drama Silo

WHAT would happen if you lost your memory? It’s the stuff of nightmares and the question at the heart of the third series of Apple TV’s hit sci-fi series Silo.

Set in a toxic future, where thousands of people live in a giant silo deep actress Rebecca Ferguson stars as an engineer who becomes embroiled in the mysteries of its past and present.

The third outing of the drama – based on Hugh Howey’s New York Times best-selling trilogy of the same name – unravels an origin story set centuries earlier, while Rebecca’s character, Juliette Nichols, suffers with memory loss as the silo recovers from a rebellion and faces a dangerous new threat.

Meanwhile, Robert Sims, played by rapper and actor Common, and his wife, Camille, step into new roles as a newly appointed judge and the head of IT, who are hell-bent on feeding Juliette lies to protect the Silo and their family, including their son.

Meanwhile, in the ‘Before Times’, journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) uncover a conspiracy that pulls them into a chain of events with catastrophic, irreversible consequences.

Here Rebecca and Common discuss the power of memories and the innovation of technology.

How do you think our memories shape us?

COMMON: Memories are really beneficial and necessary. I have somebody who always wants to take pictures, and she’s always like, ‘It’s for memories’. And I realised that sometimes you need those things to remind you of the good times, where we’ve come from, and the essence of who we are.