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01st Jan 2018

The huge cameos you may have missed in Black Mirror’s USS Callister

One is definitely more subtle.

Keeley Ryan

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How did we miss them?!

After what feels like an eternity, the fourth season of Black Mirror hit our televisions, laptops, tablets and phones.

And there were plenty of jaw-dropping moments in store throughout the six episodes.

But it was the first episode of the series, USS Callister – the riff on sci-fi classics like Star Trek – that really got people talking.

The rest of this post contains mild spoilers for the Black Mirror episode, USS Callister. 

It follows Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), an alienated atypical ‘Good Guy’, who turns out to be…well, the furthest thing from it.

He spends the whole episode making sure that people he doesn’t like – or who he perceives to have “wronged” him – are stuck in a eerie and totalitarian version of his favourite space opera TV series.

But amid all the space drama, it turns out there were two high profile cameos hidden in the episode.

Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons’ real life fiancée, can be seen walking through the background of the real life Callister offices.

She passes by Nanette, Walton and Shania with her arms crossed around the middle of the episode.

But it’s definitely a blink-and-you-miss-it moment.

And Plemons’ real life Breaking Bad co-star, Aaron Paul, is the second.

The 38-year-old doesn’t actually appear on screen, but rather as the voice of Gamer691, who harasses the crew of the USS Callister after they escape in the final minutes of the episode.