ALMOST HUMAN: Minka Kelly Teases Valerie’s Secret

ALMOST HUMAN has introduced viewers to a host of new technology and concepts in 2048, and in the promo for this Monday’s brand new episode, the show dropped the tease that Minka Kelly’s Valerie is a chrome.

But, um, what the heck does that mean?!

“She’s a chrome, which means she has a twin who we haven’t met yet,” Kelly teased to reporters late last year. “They’re opposites. So [Valerie] has an overwhelming amount of compassion and empathy, and that’s her gift in the precinct. And that how she’s able to connect to these criminals and get them to tell her their stories, because this far in the future, we’re all so used to texting and emailing – we’re all so robotic — that we have stopped connecting on a human, emotional level. Valerie still has that.”

“So that affects these criminals sometimes,” she continued. “When they’re connected to someone for the first time, it [hits] them and inspires them to tell her the truth. She’s also very smart, so she knows how to use that [to her advantage].”

But will she able to hold up as well when chromes are the ones being targeted? We’ll have to tune in to Monday’s hour, “Perception,” to find out…