Emma Corrin has described working with Issa Rae in Black Mirror season seven’s “Hotel Reverie” episode as “brilliant” and “unreal”.

Season seven of the hit Netflix dystopian anthology series dropped on Thursday (10 April), featuring a star-studded cast, including Peter Capaldi, Chris O’Dowd, Emma Corrin, Rashida Jones, Paul Giamatti, Issa Rae, Awkwafina, and Cristin Milioti.

The Haolu Wang directed third episode of the new series, entitled “Hotel Reverie”, takes a pertinent drive into AI and the arts and focuses on a Hollywood star taking part in a remake of a vintage film, with Nosferatu star Corrin starring alongside Insecure creator and star Issa Rae.

“A high-tech, unusually immersive remake of a vintage British film sends Hollywood A-list star Brandy Friday into another dimension, where she must stick to the script if she ever wants to make it home,” the description.

Speaking to Elle UK for an in-depth profile, Corrin shared details about Black Mirror and themselves and Rae playing lovers.

“Walking onto the set for the first time, which had these incredible, hand- painted black and white backdrops, was so special,” Corrin said of the set for the episode.

Elle described the scenes between the two as “infinitely watchable” and that their “chemistry is so tender that it blunts the sense of dread that so often accompanies a Black Mirror episode”.

“She’s brilliant,” Corrin said of Rae. “Her comic timing is unreal. It’s a love story at the heart, which I think is going to be surprising for people. It’s not this big horror warning.”

Despite AI being a huge theme in the third episode of Black Mirror‘s latest season, Corrin is less receptive to such technology being used to create films and wider types of art.

“I’m not a fan,” they said.

“I think it’s terrible, actually. It terrifies me. The loss of original, organic creativity and [not] having to be in a room with a group of people to create something is terrifying.”

Corrin added: “God, in the wake of everything that’s going on with the world, surely the one thing you need to hold on to is being in a room with other people creating something from the ground up. That’s the source of everything, isn’t it? The source of hope.”

During the interview Corrin, who is non-binary, also addressed US president Donald Trump’s attacks on the trans and non-binary community.

Since returning to office for a second term, the Trump administration has made quick work of Trump’s campaign promises to stop so-called “transgender lunacy” by enacting several executive orders explicitly targeting the rights of the trans community.

These orders have including declaring that the official policy of the US is that there are “only two sexes”, banning trans men and women from the armed forces, restricting gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youngsters under the age 19 and stopping trans women from taking part in female sports.

Most recently, Trump published a proclamation for National Child Abuse Prevention Month in which he grotesquely compared parents who love and affirm their trans kids to child abusers.

“It is truly terrifying to think of the generations of kids who are going to grow up with a permanent feeling of fear and an inability to express themselves,” Corrin said.

“That is really sad. It feels very hopeless.” They added, noting it will be “strange” for them to return to the US>

They said and that they are worried other nations around the world will follow America’s actions.

“The UK has its own host of problems,” they said. “I’m worried that as these other countries go backwards, we will too.”

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