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THE BULLETIN • JANUARY 21 - 27, 2021
Mr. Wilford assumes control
of ‘Snowpiercer’ in Season 2
of TNT actioner
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Lena Hall stars
in “Snowpiercer,”
premiering its second
season Monday
on TNT.
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“I wouldn’t really say Wonka-esque,”
explains series showrunner Graeme Manson,
“but he’s a larger-than-life character and he’s
the smartest man in the world. I mean, he
was the smartest man in the world before
everybody else died. Now there’s only less
than 3,000 of them. He’s a formidable
character. ... Sean just plays him with such
relish. He’s pretty delightful and delicious and
like all our villains, he’s not completely black
or white, either.”
And that element of the character reveals
itself in scenes with Hall’s Audrey, who fights
a fatal attraction to her former paramour. In
playing opposite Bean, Hall admits to having
been thrown by the actor’s fiery intensity.
“It’s interesting because he’s very quiet in
person when you meet him and he’s very
quiet and internal, I guess, on set,” Hall
explains. “And then when he acts a scene,
when they say, ‘Action,’ he completely changes
into whatever character he’s playing. In this
case, he’s a monster. Like he transformed
while we were acting together and it was
so amazing for me to watch that like my
reactions are pretty much there. ...
“Like my reactions are pretty much in the
moment because he would change things up
and he would get really intense sometimes
and it would scare me, like for real, dude,”
she continues with a laugh. “So it was fun.
It was always so fun to do these scenes with
him. And then when they stop action, he’s
back to being really sweet.”
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Mr. Wilford has arrived to re-take his
rightful place as the head of “Snowpiercer,”
and the tentative peace aboard the 994-car
supertrain will soon be history.
Indeed, as the TNT sci-fi actioner opens
its second season Monday, Jan. 25, the
inhabitants of the titular post-apocalyptic
train find they have new neighbors. The
40-car Big Alice that attached itself to the
tail of Snowpiercer at the end of Season 1
brings forth their once and future leader
(new cast member Sean Bean, “Game of
Thrones”) and his protegee, Alexandra Cavill
(new cast member Rowan Blanchard, “Girl
Meets World”) – engineer Melanie’s (Jennifer
Connelly) believed-dead daughter – to deliver
their demands.
Their arrival threatens the fragile
democracy and merging of the classes aboard
Snowpiercer, prompting revolutionary-
turned-de-facto-leader Layton (Daveed Diggs)
and his foot soldiers to take up arms. Also
not thrilled with Wilford’s re-emergence is
entertainer Miss Audrey (Lena Hall), who
has a tortured past with him. But Ruth from
hospitality (Alison Wright) is overjoyed to see
her old boss back in charge.
Of course, the big news this season is the
casting of Bean, a classically trained British
actor whose nearly 40-year career spans stage,
film and television. He gleefully plays Wilford
as a brilliant eccentric with big appetites and
an even bigger capacity for cruelty.
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