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 Oscar winner Stone and "The Wolf on Wolf Street" star Hill play
Annie and Owen, two strangers with personal problems who take
part in a pharmaceutical drug trial.
A trailer shows the two characters in multiple, sometimes
fantastical, settings during the experiment where they are told
by the doctor leading the trial that "pain can be destroyed, the
mind can be solved".
"It seemed like a great opportunity to dive into this world that
was sort of different from ours but talking about a lot of the
themes that we deal with today in modern society," Stone told
Reuters at the show's red carpet premiere on Thursday.
"Disconnection from each other and trying to fix problems in a
certain way and realizing that human connection really is a balm
for all of us."
The show, which premieres on the streaming service on Sept. 21,
is directed by Cary Fukunaga, known for "Beasts of No Nation"
and his work on the series "True Detective".
"The biggest challenge of the show is that it reinvents itself
each episode, that puts a lot of pressure on everybody," writer
Patrick Somerville said. "We just had to make new worlds over
and over again."
Stone and Hill, who worked together on 2007 comedy "Superbad",
both starred in television shows earlier in their careers, but
"Maniac" proved a different project for both actors, who are
also executive producers on the series.
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"I thought that it would be an exciting challenge to get to explore
a character, in this case five characters, over five, six hours,"
Stone said.
"That's not something I've gotten to really do very much of. I did
some TV at the beginning but never in this long form of 10
episodes...It was a really fun process."
The actors are the latest major stars picking leading roles on the
small screen. Recent examples include Amy Adams in HBO's "Sharp
Objects" and Julia Roberts in Amazon Studios' upcoming "Homecoming".
"Everybody is turning to TV and the stuff that they're producing
it's...critically-acclaimed, winning Emmys so it's proving to be
incredibly fruitful for them," Alex Ritman, UK correspondent for The
Hollywood Reporter said.
"And off the back of that...being a big name on TV is beneficial to
your film career. I don't think we live in a world where you're one
or the other anymore."
(Reporting By Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Saskia O'Donoghue; Editing
by Andrew Heavens)
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