For the briefest of moments, The Orville ceased to exist. After calling the Fox network home for two seasons, the beloved space dramedy was expunged from the proverbial airlock and canceled. Hulu, thankfully, swooped in and gave The Orville a new lease on life. When The Orville -- aptly subtitled New Horizons -- returns on June 2, the titular ship and its crew are still recovering from Isaac's (Mark Jackson) betrayal. He's since been revived and reinstated as Chief Science Officer, despite his fellow Kaylon attempting to take over the galaxy and exterminate the human race. That doesn't sit well with everyone.

During a recent interview with CBR, cast members Jackson, Peter Macon (Bortus), and Chad L. Coleman (Klyden) spoke about The Orville's long hiatus. The actors also dove into the consequences of Isaac's treachery, Bortus and Klyden's union, and the actors' rigorous makeup process.

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CBR: The Orville has been MIA since 2019. How amazing does it feel to be back and talking about the show?

Chad L. Coleman: It's a big capital FINALLY! Yeah! It's exciting from the standpoint of knowing just how rich and bold and epic this season is. It has everything. It's no holds barred. Like Peter always says, it's little movies every week. I am excited for the fans. I know what you have received over the first two seasons... This third one trumps them all, for sure. It really is that damn good.

Peter Macon: I think it will be worth the wait. Covid aside, that's what took so long. We have 12 extra minutes to use. I feel like we really got to take our time and build out these 60-minute films. Just pace-wise, there's a little more air for things to land. There seems to be reaction time. We can watch a character that got out of a scene and what they are feeling and what they are reacting to and what happened to them. There's time for that, which builds character, which builds story. That feels really good.

Isaac is front and center in the premiere. He is the catalyst for a lot of things that happen. Mark, what was your reaction when you read the script and found that out?

Mark Jackson: Luckily, I received a bunch of scripts at the same time, so it wasn't as terrifying as it might be for some actors to receive that script. What I kind of forgot is in Season 2, we are sort of in a situation where the Orville is licking its wounds, the whole Union is licking its wounds from the battle with the Kaylon. For Isaac, he has a long way to go to win back their respect and trust from the crew. Even, as you will see in the first episode in Season 3, even the most stoic characters find it difficult to completely trust him. We will see that in his personal relationships with the people and crew closest to him, but also in him and his actions and the way he's trying to prove himself again.

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The Orville also tackles some heavy subject matter. Isaac learns about human nature and hatred. How do those big lessons impact him?

Jackson: The thing you have to remember about Isaac is he operates logically. He has to rationalize everything that happens. He's basically a bunch of algorithms. As you see in his Season 2, his algorithms can go wrong when his environment doesn't necessarily support them. As with Claire (Penny Johnson Jerald), you saw that when his relationship with her deteriorated, he stopped working properly. I think that's a shock to him as much as it is to anyone. He is slowly reprogramming to work better in the Orville environment, but he was never really meant to stay there. As he is now, staying on the Orville, he has to step up his game. So, when he learns about human hatred and what that actually means, and how much that means to humans and aliens alike, he has to process that in the only way he knows how.

In Season 2, Bortus and Klyden's marriage hit rock bottom. What is the status of their relationship?

Coleman: Without giving anything away, like most couples, they face some real challenges: challenges in perception, ideology, how one defines themselves, the relationship between the Earthers and the Moclans, and how much we assimilate into that culture and how much we maintain our own culture. With a growing child, that presents even more challenges on just a normal level. On a regular day-to-day basis, for any family, a child growing up into teenage years is going to ratchet up the drama and how we relate to one another. We are not backing away from it, that's for sure. We are stepping both feet in, and it's powerfully compelling, tremendously entertaining, and a lot of fun to work with both of them.

Macon: It's anything like life. I have two young boys, and watching them grow and change and have their needs intensify... It's just a treat to be able to play and inhabit this character for the better part of five years. It just gets deeper and deeper, so the relationships with other characters grow and get deeper. The challenges present themselves. Just when you think it can't get any harder or stranger or funnier, it does. The joy for me is just to be in it for that long and take whatever is thrown at me, as the character, because there is so much life that has already happened to build from.

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Going into your third season, how has the makeup and prosthetics process changed?

Macon: In the first season, it would take four hours to get it right. Then, we got it down to 90 minutes. I'm first in, last out because of the extra time with the makeup, but that was my Zen time. I would get in and fall asleep. This last season was a pretty long shoot. That makeup is tricky in that if my ire is wrinkled, if my psychological ire is wrinkled, I am that much more itchy. It's a lesson in really keeping calm. If I get upset, I get itchy. That was never really the option. If you are in this makeup for 12, 13, 14 hours, it's like, ''Get this shit off of me.'' You have to get into your Zen space and be the character that much harder and just love it that much more. By the end, we got it dialed in -- so quick on, quick off.

Coleman: Also, being on location.

Macon: Ohhh... Enough. It gets quite hot.

Coleman: The heat is on! Howard Berger is the thought master when it comes to all these things. He provided us with cooling suits underneath to give us some rest from the heat. He kept helping us hydrate. He had an amazing bedside manner right there, making sure we were comfortable as could be.

Can you tease what else you are excited for audiences to see this season?

Coleman: Where this family goes this season is a hell of a thrill ride. You will be on the edge of your seats, for sure, in terms of what we serve up as far as our family is concerned.

Jackson: Everything has been ratcheted up... The sets, the costumes, the makeup, the special effects, the stories, the relationships... We are not treading water here. We are just full steam ahead.

Macon: It's definitely been worth the wait. I know that what we are turning in will not disappoint.

The Orville: New Horizons premieres June 22 on Hulu.