Shawn Ashmore & Valorie Curry

0:05Let's start with what attracted you to these rules originally. Why did you want to play a crazy a psycho? I Didn't know that I was necessarily going to be playing a crazy or a psycho in the very beginning. I mean Emma has all of three lines in the pilot and When I auditioned as well as a minnego for Jacob and Paul We had dummy scenes that sort of indicated where things were going but we had no idea I really didn't know who Emma was going to be until the show was already picked up and Kevin had written episode two, but I Personally just love playing a character who is Who is underestimated and is capable of a lot more than people give her credit for I like to play the unexpected And I get to do that every day. So is that fun as an actor to stay on your when you when you're given a script

0:53You think you're playing one thing and then you're told a couple weeks in no, that's not you you're now this thing Oh, that happens all the time. Um for me as an actor what really helped me was realizing that Emma is very much a Chameleon she's very adaptable. She is whoever she needs to be in any given circumstance so she does change completely from one moment to the next and It's not necessarily a lie or an act. She's I mean the truth just changes from one moment to the next But as long as it serves Joe she's willing to do it So that really helped me to just everything was in the moment And you don't I can't get attached to what happened two weeks ago or get attached to an idea of what where things are going Right, and I'll get to you in a second Sean, but just just going on that Don't talk to you Just thinking like and I think someone asked us downstairs too

1:39But you have the potential for your character to become a lot more prominent next season if in fact Let's go on the theory that that Joe Carroll dies in the last episode. Where do you hope Emma goes? You know, I I don't know she's she's never been on her own before she's never had to live without the safety of the cult sort of infrastructure or of Joe's guardianship even from prison and I Don't know what life would be like or who she would become or how she would handle herself out in the world on her own But I'd be really excited to see because I think that there's still a lot of her character to be explored Hmm and back to Sean here, and I'm back to Sean. This is the first time we're talking Yeah, now now we can chat for a second or two No, but of the same thing like someone mentioned upstairs that conspiracy theory in our editor TV editor Joan Also was as soon as you said that conspiracy theory thing about you being a follower she pointed at me

2:28She's like I've been saying this all along. Yeah, so where do you go wrong? Do you hope you get beat up? Well, we don't know I know I know so far. Do you hope you get beat up left? Do you hope you get beat up more next season like where do you focus? I will say I do take I do take a good beating I'm training. Tell you to take a yeah, you know, I will say that I think actually the the abuse I took over the season actually kept me alive potentially because Once I survived the sort of we call it the fight club episode where I get put into a coma I think it would be sort of anticlimactic to kill Weston after that I think that was the moment if you were gonna take him out so I actually think that getting shot stabbed and beat up so many times removed the sort of The excitement of maybe Weston being killed the surprise aspect of that but as far as being

3:15Being a follower that potential and also the sort of conspiracy nature of the show again I always go back to the pilot and That paranoid started very very early and I can't convince anybody If they if they believe that Weston is a bad guy deep down I'm like even though he's been shot stabbed put into a coma roger who was like the number two you know Put out one or to kill this character, you know, and but everyone has a theory well. Yeah, but Maybe that's part of the plan. Maybe roger wasn't in it, but Joe knows, you know, there's there's all these theories I think it's fascinating. I think it's amazing. I think this show Became successful the minute it took on its own life the minute that people turned off the tv And started talking about the characters creating their own backstories creating their own

4:02Potential future stories for these characters. That's when this show became a hit Um, and it's an amazing thing to know that people dedicate their imagination After the television it turned off to what is happening to these characters. It's like loss is the first time this has happened since Lost where there's there's more going on online than almost Well, yeah, I mean, I'm sure that there's I'm sure that there's other, you know, other shows that really happen I mean, I know there shows that I watch We'll game of thrones this week. Oh, yeah, we've been talking. I mean, I can't wait till sunday I'm like, can it be sunday one more episode, but also shows like homeland. I mean I as soon as you know an episode's done I'm like what is gonna happen next like we sit around and talk about it So I mean that's the kind of television that I enjoy that's the difference between television and film right now There's no potential for that conversation after movies done because Which is sometimes great, but the story is told and you can discuss what happened

4:51But the theorizing of what's gonna happen next or where these characters could go isn't quite as rich as on a television show So I think that's amazing. I think that's You know social media adds to that but also that's what's great about tv and I'm a I'm a member of that club I mean, I we've been talking about game of thrones today. So it's awesome And I would bring it up, but we only have so much time we need to talk about the fall I got you. I got you so your last line the episode kevin bacon says to you or his character says to you are you okay About debra's death and you say no So where where does that lead your character? Where do you hope that leads your character? You get to play more emotionally Are you gonna be do you think freaked out because of that? Is that change who you are on the show and how you play it? Well, to be honest I mean, I think the direct that that line is On the surface about debra but probably more and the way that I thought about that question was more like

5:37About the whole season about everything that's happened. I mean You know, I think the idea that joe karrell is dead That's something that's a lot, but are you okay? It's like the thing that I thought was interesting about weston is he slowly Starts morphing and shifting emotionally into ryan hardy And I think that question was kind of that moment where ryan Maybe starts to see that weston is not the man that he started as this sort of like kind of pure worshiping open Sort of fun, you know off the cuff kind of character and and you know, I think maybe that question is about ryan seeing a bit of himself in weston now Um, and I think that that would be a really interesting place to to take season two I mean these guys have clearly bonded over the season and I think that they respect each other now

6:24So, um, yeah, I think you know in weston's future there probably is you know a huge emotional rollercoaster Especially staying on this case and what is very interesting to me is that we sort of know what this can do to human being the the Evidence is right there every episode with ryan, you know So it's like is will weston fall into that pattern will he be able to pull himself out of that? I don't know yet, but I think it's gonna be interesting to see thank you man. I appreciate it. Thanks. It's your gonna break from xmen taking the week off I'm done. Oh, you're done. Yeah, I just finished like four days ago