‘Constellation’ star James D’Arcy on his ‘Oppenheimer’ Oscar hopes — and ‘telepathic’ co-star

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Apple TV+), which follows an astronaut who returns home from space — only to find her reality seemingly changed. “I found it a really unique piece of writing,” D’Arcy, 48, told The Post. “It seems to me to defy easy comparison, which I liked enormously about it.

I liked that I couldn’t even pin down what genre it was,” he said. “Because it seemed initially to be a sci-fi [show], and then it felt like a thriller.

But actually it was a domestic drama, and then there was a conspiracy theory element to it all.“And in the end, now that I’ve had time to really think about it, what I think it is is an excitingly paced meditation on the nature of reality.”Now streaming (with new episodes out on Wednesdays) “Constellation” follows astronaut Jo Ericsson (Noomi Rapace, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”), who is married to Magnus (D’Arcy); the couple share a daughter Alice (played by twins, Rosie, and Davina Coleman).Jo, alone on the international space station after a catastrophe, makes a harrowing and strange return home – but there, she finds that her life isn’t as she remembered it.

There are odd inconsistencies: her car is a different color than it was before she left, and her marriage to Magnus seems ruined, but she has no recollection of what led to that development.