‘Westworld’ Star Jeffrey Wright Talks Bernard’s “Unique Position” In Season 2
By Ben Pearson/March 15, 2018 2:00 pm EST
After more than a year off the air, we’re a little more than a month away from the season 2 premiere of HBO’s sci-fi series Westworld. Star Evan Rachel Wood has previously said that “the show might really start in season 2,” implying that the whole first season essentially served as the pilot for what Westworld would eventually become. So what does the new season have in store for one of its key characters, Bernard Lowe? In a new interview, actor Jeffrey Wright spills the beans about Bernard’s “unique position” in the second season and the character’s “health issues” after the events of season one.
‘Westworld’ Star Jeffrey Wright Talks Bernard’s “Unique Position” In Season 2
By Ben Pearson/March 15, 2018 2:00 pm EST
After more than a year off the air, we’re a little more than a month away from the season 2 premiere of HBO’s sci-fi series Westworld. Star Evan Rachel Wood has previously said that “the show might really start in season 2,” implying that the whole first season essentially served as the pilot for what Westworld would eventually become. So what does the new season have in store for one of its key characters, Bernard Lowe? In a new interview, actor Jeffrey Wright spills the beans about Bernard’s “unique position” in the second season and the character’s “health issues” after the events of season one.
Jeffrey Wright Westworld Season 2 Comments
Wright’s dual performance as Bernard and Arnold Weber, the park’s co-founder and Dr. Ford’s former partner, was one of the best aspects of the show’s first season, so I’m definitely looking forward to seeing the actor bring some new variations and shades – even damaged ones – to his role when season 2 arrives.
“Bernard is in a pretty peculiar, kind of unique position in that he’s got certain allegiances to both sides and I think that’s part of the consideration for him. I think given his robot brain situation and given kind of the social situation around him in terms of having been human and then discovering he’s a host, but he’s aspiring toward kind of an awakening as the hosts are, the question for him at the beginning as you might expect is: ‘Where am I? Where am I in all of this?’ We lead from there.”
Westworld returns to HBO on Sunday, April 22, 2018.
