Esai Morales On 'Caprica'

Esai Morales plays an attorney with the ties to the underworld on SyFy’s cult hit Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica. “What I realized about this is that the show is very analogous to our lifestyle here [on Earth],” he told Uinterview in an exclusive interview. “So I didn’t have to go out and study life in other worlds as much as its home as far as the arc is concerned.”

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY., Morales began early with his dreams of becoming an actor, enrolling in the School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. He began his career by performing in theater first and eventually made his debut in the 1983 film Bad Boys. Describing himself as an “actorvist,” Morales has starred in many movies that have been reflections of his own social and politics casuse, including movies such as The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca based on the Spanish Civil War and The Burning Season, based on the fight to protect rainforests.

Morales finds himself connecting bits of Caprica with what he sees in thw orld today. “I think what I’ve always felt about our media and our technology – it outpaces our spirituality, our connectivity,” he told Uinterview. “We’re being outpaced.”