Cast and crew make sure CBS’ ‘Extant’ is down-to-earth
Halle Berry felt a connection when the producers of the futuristic CBS drama Extant approached her last year about playing an astronaut who returns from a 13-month solo space mission with an unexplained pregnancy.
“I was eight months pregnant. I felt like, ‘Wow! I think this might be meant to be,'” says Berry, whose now-9-month-old son, Maceo Martinez, was on set with her last month. “When I need to go have mommy time, (as) I call it, I get to nurse my baby. Everybody’s been patient. I couldn’t think of a job where I would get to do it the way I do it.”
But the 13-episode Extant (Wednesday, 9 ET/PT), set in a not-too-distant future, is hardly a sepia-toned vision of motherhood. Besides the extra space passenger in her womb, Berry’s Molly Woods must readjust to home life with her inventor husband, John (Goran Visnjic), and Ethan, 8, the android son he created after they were unable to conceive.
