You never forget your first invasion. Resident Alien Season 3 is finally here, and with it comes more of the comfort-food hilarity, endearing kookiness and sci-fi shenanigans we love. “Lone Wolf” sets the stage for a narrative with the highest stakes yet.
Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk) might be Earth’s only hope, but he’ll try his hardest to thwart The Greys one briefcase pizza slice at a time.
Recently, I had the privilege of chatting with the show’s cast in a virtual press junket — Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund, Levi Fiehler, Meredith Garretson and Corey Reynolds — about the premiere and what’s to come in Season 3. As with most virtual junkets, we only got to ask a few questions per interview.
If you haven’t watched “Lone Wolf,” turn around now (spoilers, sweetie).
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This interview has been condensed for length and clarity.
Sara Tomko (Asta) and Alice Wetterlund (D’Arcy)

Melody McCune: At the end of the premiere, Asta tells Harry she’ll help him with his mission by agreeing to go on another date with Joseph. How will this affect her bond with Harry moving forward now that they’ve become this kind of superhero team, as it were?
Sara Tomko: Our bond [has been] evolving [since] Season 1. Asta has a hard time trusting men. It’s funny that he (Harry) lies to her and tells her he’s a man when he’s an alien. It’s a surprise that she continues to trust him, but I think both share an otherness that has bonded them from the start.
Then, in Season 2, you see a lot of frustration from Asta because not only is she used to being around him, but she’s constantly having to pick up after him and tell him, “No, no, no.” It’s like following a toddler. In Season 3, it’s nice because there’s finally this moment of, “He trusts me. I trust him. I know who he is,” and now he’s going off and exploring other relationships.
Now, D’Arcy, my dad (Gary Farmer) and the kids involved know. Obviously, Max (Judah Prehn) has always known, but it takes pressure off Asta’s shoulders.
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I think our bond becomes one of knowing who he is now. There’s a calm safety in that, where I have to explain to people like D’Arcy and say, “Okay, sometimes he doesn’t know his right from his wrong, but you can’t get mad at him. He’s still learning.”
This is true for Asta, too. If she could, she’d [hold a] mirror, reflect it on herself and say, “Sometimes, we don’t know what we’re doing, and it’s okay not to know right from wrong. This is new water we’re treading, with self-love and figuring out our purpose.” We’re starting to see this bond form where we go away from each other in a few of these episodes, but then we come back together. It unites us in hope for our friendship and for the future.
MM: Now that D’Arcy knows who Harry is, what can we expect regarding their interactions going forward this season?
Alice Wetterlund: It was fun for me as an actor. D’Arcy is different than Asta. She is chaotic, but she likes to get things done. She likes to get her hands dirty. I don’t want to spoil anything. It’s a very different dynamic that I think is probably dysfunctional in the end and may not yield the best results, but it was fun to play.
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Levi Fiehler (Ben) and Meredith Garretson (Kate)

MM: In the premiere, we see Kate and Ben navigating the aftermath of their abductions. What can we expect as the season unfolds and when they discover what truly happened?
Meredith Garretson: I’m trying to be a little cagey and not spoil anything. But this season, you get to see two people who have this sense of unease — one for his whole life and one for a shorter amount of time. These two people, with a great sense of unease, have to go through the devastating discovery of what has been happening and what that means. Then, [they] figure out how they’re going to fight that, what they’re going to do about it and take that on as a team.
That was one of my favorite aspects of working on the season — getting to share in that with Levi, our characters figuring out how we would fight and what skills we would use to do that.
Levi Fiehler: It was cool when Chris [Sheridan] told me about what was happening, that I’m getting abducted at the end of Season 2. It helped explain why Ben is the way he is and is always afraid of everything. It’s because he’s been having this super traumatic experience with these abductions since he was a kid.
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Although he doesn’t remember any of it, it’s still buried in his subconscious. It’s a newer experience for Kate, but both of us putting together these pieces and figuring out what’s going on, and just the weight of that and how we’re going to deal with what’s going on was a cool twist.
MM: Kate tells Ben in the premiere that she wants to sell the house. What do you think was running through his mind at that moment?
LF: “Oh, sh*t.” From a financial aspect, he’s like, “Oh my God. We can’t afford to buy another house right now.” But he also grew up in the house; it’s his family home, and he’s the town’s mayor. So, maybe there aren’t a lot of homes for sale; it’s a small town. He’s like, “Are we going to have to move? Are we going to have to move across the country? Do I have to get a new job? Maybe I can defuse this before it spirals further out of control.” Definitely an “Oh, sh*t” moment, though.
Corey Reynolds (Sheriff Mike)

MM: I love the scene in the bar with Mike and Liv in the premiere where they’re trying to understand each other over the loud music. What was it like to film that and play off each other?
Corey Reynolds: As with most scenes with Liz (Elizabeth Bowen), we have fun. We have a lot of fun working together. We get to play a lot. That scene was funny — there wasn’t actual music when filming because then you wouldn’t be able to record the lines properly. So, you’re trying to create the sense of yelling and not being able to hear [each other]. You don’t have the context of everything that will happen in post.
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You’re just there with one another in a quiet room. You know what I mean? I feel like it worked pretty well. It was cool seeing it once the music was in there. If you can make a good diarrhea joke, how do you resist? I mean, let’s just keep it real. So, that’s what we did.
MM: What can we expect regarding interactions between Mike, Liv and Joseph, especially since you have Mike and Liv, who are looking into the murdered alien tracker, versus the new deputy, who’s an alien?
CR: That causes problems. I think he (Mike) sees much of what he wants in Joseph (Enver Gjokaj) — what he wants the sheriff’s department to project in this small town. But I think he would be doing himself a disservice if he tried to pretend that all these things happening are just coincidence.
I think Mike ultimately buys into the idea that something is happening. He thinks the government using aliens would be a great way to cover up stuff [they’re] doing. So, he understands there’s some treachery afoot here. There’s something weird happening, but the connection to aliens is just so far out of his mind. He doesn’t connect those dots.
Thank you, Sara, Alice, Meredith, Levi and Corey, for chatting with GGA!
Resident Alien airs new Season 3 episodes every Wednesday at 10 PM on SYFY, with next-day streaming on Peacock.
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