Shadow and Bone’s Common Kirigan, aka the Darkling, doesn’t deal with rejection nicely, and portrayer Ben Barnes is aware of it.
After getting his provide to rule side-by-side turned down by Alina after which being swept away by one in all his Volcra within the Fold on the finish of Season 1, the Shadow Summoner finds himself a rage-filled monster in Season 2 (premiering this Thursday on Netflix).
“While he’s the evil, poisonous, nasty presence that’s seething throughout Season 2, he additionally feels betrayed and deserted and rejected and alone — unloved at this level, even by his personal mother,” Barnes tells TVLine. “He’s justifying the best way that he’s being, even when it’s not doable for anyone else to. Within the first season, he has all these completely different weapons when it comes to his military, his appeal, his abilities in manipulation. Within the second season, all that’s out the window, and he’s simply extra full-on rage.”
Whereas the Darkling stalks round all moody and indignant, new episodes will see Alina coming into her personal because the Solar Summoner and the one one capable of convey down the Fold. “[In Season 1], she’s reluctant to be the savior,” Jessie Mei Li shares, “whereas in Season 2, she’s lastly accepted her accountability, and we watch her battle underneath the immense weight of that. She’s actually settled into turning into a frontrunner.”
Genya, in the meantime, will spend Season 2 grappling with the abuse she suffered from the king of Ravka and the way Kirigan put her in his path to additional his personal agenda.
“This season, we notice we see her battle at first to essentially not let her ache outline her and to not let the struggling be a continuum,” Daisy Head, who performs Genya, explains. “In life, you may’t select your ache, however you may select the best way to let that ache outline you and whether or not it could possibly strengthen or weaken you. I feel we steadily see that Genya will get stronger.”
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