Watch This Exclusive Two-Minute Clip From National Geographic’s ‘Genius’

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Albert Einstein has gone down in history as a rebel with his tongue stuck out, an intellectual who would not be distracted from his quest for greatness. It’s easy to equate unswerving intellectualism with genius, but are they really the same? There’s more to the great thinker than just his theories, and not all of it is pleasant. Now National Geographic means to explore the man behind the myth. In its new series, Genius, NatGeo takes on Einstein’s controversial relationships to shed a different light on his life.

Einstein’s intellectual and academic pursuits reigned supreme for him, but that didn’t mean he led a simple nor straightforward life. Einstein met, and passionately courted, Mileva Mari? in a “turbulent but intellectually rich” relationship that also produced a daughter, Lieserl. But alas, Einstein’s first love was not his last. But alas, his relationship with Mari? was doomed to fail, as well as his second marriage to his cousin Elsa. But evidence suggests that Mari? may have played a larger part than the usual wifely bystander in Einstein’s work.

Check out the emotionally charged dynamic between the young Einstein and Mileva discussing entropy in this exclusive Genius sneak peak from National Geographic:

The series is split into two timelines — the early life of Einstein, wherein he’s played by Johnny Flynn, and his later years, where he’s portrayed by Geoffrey Rush (who many of you will recognize as Capt. Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean).

Genius has already been renewed for a second season on another great thinker — and Ron Howard, its director, is being cagey about who that intellectual luminary might be. In the meantime, Genius is already off to a riveting start.

Listen to an audio interview between director Ron Howard and PCMag editor-in-chief Dan Costa:

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