John Slattery on His Conspiracy-Filled New Techno-Thriller Series 'neXt' (Exclusive)
John Slattery stars in Fox's new series, and the star is opening up about the white-knuckle techno-thriller. Speaking with ET, Slattery dished on why the grounded sci-fi story is so relevant to our modern world.In Slattery plays Paul LeBlanc, a tech mogul who joins up with investigators from a Homeland Cybersecurity team to investigate a rogue artificial intelligence program that could be learning, evolving and killing people.«The most interesting part of it is that everybody has these devices — we have computers, we have laptops, we have iPads, we have phones, we have these supercomputers in our possession at all times,» Slattery told ET's Rachel Smith via video chat.