fringe: major season two teases!
they have their "worried for humanity" faces down // fox promotional photo
The actors of Fringe teased some pretty major plot points this morning–those spoilers plus some speculation is after the jump!
Anna Torv, on whether or not we’ll meet the alternate-universe Olivia:
I’m hoping that there is [an alt-Olivia]. But then I don’t know … which I would prefer if she ends up coming. I don’t know if I would prefer her to be just, like, fractionally off. … I would love to see … she’s completely, you know, 180 [degrees different]. … My pitch would be, and I think that’s what a lot of people are saying, too, … with the discovery of the fact that the Peter here is clearly not from here, then it makes sense that maybe the Walter over there is angry with the Walter here, and that’s kind of the whole thing behind [the Pattern]. But I don’t know. They do sometimes surprise. Sometimes they put these clues in and then they flip it on its head and you’ve been wrong all along. But that’s where I’m going.
John Noble, on what the meeting between himself and the “Walternate” might look like:
He’s going to be awfully angry–that’s my summation. We’ve sort of hinted this, haven’t we? We’ve had little hints of other Walters around the place, and you’ll see that. My guess would be that there has to be a confrontation between the two men. That’s not the writers again, this is just me projecting forward.
Joshua Jackson, on whether or when Peter will discover he’s from the AU:
The big [question] that gets raised is, when he finds out the truth about his origins, where do his loyalties lie? I truly am excited to play it either way. Maybe the decision’s been made—they haven’t told me—but I think it’s just as interesting to have Peter freak out, have his moment outside the flock, and then come back and say, ‘I forgive you, but this is where I belong.’ And I also think it’s quite interesting to have him freak out and say, ‘No, burn it all down,’ and have Peter actually become some version of the bad guy going into season three.
John Noble on William Bell:
We’ve introduced William Bell as a major player now, and Leonard’s been back a couple of times. I did a lovely scene with him the other day. A very interesting scene which I’m not going to tell you about, but it was amazing. What it revealed. The revelation in that was shocking. It was shocking to me when I read it.
What we’re dealing with is, we’ve been told that there’s a breach, that there will have to be a repercussion for this breach. And so as we build through now, we’re coming towards what they’re calling a war. [If you] break the laws of nature, you will pay. That’s going to happen. So we’ll build through season two up to that point. In the meantime, we’ll continue to do stories that are interesting, and we’ve done some, I think some of our very, very best scripts. Last, this year, we’ve done some amazing [things]. Just what we’ve been shooting for the last five episodes is extraordinary.
Well, the greatest thing I imagine happening is that any progress made in the relationship between Peter and Walter will be dashed to hell with the revelation that Walter stole Peter from the other side. I personally love the idea of giving Peter a big storyline like that–conflicted, not sure where he belongs, angry, confused … I understand why Joshua Jackson is so excited about it.
And I LOVE Anna’s speculation that The Pattern is being caused by “The Walternate” causing trouble for our universe in his rage over the loss of young Peter.
