Sinclair Daniel and Mark O’Brien on ‘The Copenhagen Test’: ‘The show is propulsive’

Sinclair Daniel and Mark O'Brien speak of their experiences of working on 'The Copenhagen Test', balancing the action with emotion, and the challenges of filming in extreme weather

The Copenhagen Test is a futuristic espionage thriller in which the brain of an intelligence agent, Alexander Hale (Simu Liu) is hacked.

Hale works as an analyst in The Orphanage, a watchdog for other spy agencies. When he discovers his brain is hacked, he agrees with his bosses to use the hack to discover who is behind it.  

Sinclair Daniel, who plays an intelligence analyst tracking Hale, over speaks to us over a video call from New York. “My character spends a lot of time in the control room, surrounded by technology that you see in the real world including, laptops, iPads, and phones,” he says.

However, Sinclair says that the screens on many of the devices were blank. “When you’re already imagining that the phone is ringing, it is not that much of a stretch to imagine that somebody’s brain is hacked,” the 28-year-old actor says, laughing.

Sinclair adds, “We are already in the imaginary space of technology being at its highest form. So, when someone says, ‘We’re going to take it up a notch,’ it comes quite naturally.”

Mark O’Brien plays a CIA agent determined to bring Hale down. “My character doesn’t deal with that quite so much,” Mark (41) says over a video call from Los Angeles. “He sees something amiss, something wrong.”