The Flight Attendant Season 2 premieres Thursday, April 21, on HBO Max.
TV Fanatic bought the prospect to talk with the forged and showrunners forward of the highly-anticipated premiere.
As beforehand reported in our Flight Attendant Season 2 overview, Cassie (Kaley Cuoco) is in a a lot totally different place once we choose again up.
“After we meet Cassie on the prime of season two, she seems to be a completely new Cassie. She’s a 12 months into her sobriety,” teases co-showrunner Natalie Chaidez.
“In truth, she has matching home equipment. She does yoga. She has a brilliant sizzling excellent boyfriend, so we had been undoubtedly making a option to set the place she is originally of the season in order that we may type of unravel it and see what was beneath the veneer and peel away.”
Chaidez says that this makes for a really totally different present as a result of it highlights that Cassie is making higher decisions.
Chaidez is worked up for followers to see the globe-trotting season as a result of having the storylines unfold internationally provides to the “propulsion of the season.”
The showrunner says that a part of the enjoyable of the collection is in watching this tight rope of Cassie’s journey, which signifies that issues are poised to collapse in some unspecified time in the future for her.
“I believe that rigidity actually propels the primary a part of the season since you’re watching her do all of these items to essentially keep away from coping with her actual sobriety,” Natalie provides.
The complete-length trailer for The Flight Attendant Season 2 confirmed that issues can be very totally different, due to the a number of iterations of Cassie within the Thoughts Palace.
“It type of began with the top of season one with Cassie recognizing this darker a part of herself that she form of needed to take possession of,” collection creator Steve Yockey shared, including that the addition of Natalie Chaidez as co-showrunner helped deliver this storytelling mechanic to life.
“Natalie got here in and joined us, and he or she introduced on this thought of doubles that ended up informing a lot concerning the season, however I clearly fell in love with that concept after which took it and ran with it,” Yockey provides.
“And I used to be like, ‘why simply have two Cassies once we may have 5?”‘
“So we carved out all of those totally different features of Cassie to place into the thoughts palace.”
Yockey revealed that it was difficult to shoot, however it was one thing that labored out very nicely for the present.
Natalie added that it was additionally about Kaley Cuoco as a result of she’s such a terrific actress.
“I believe this concept of a number of Cassies actually appealed to Steve and I as a possibility to essentially push her into locations that individuals hadn’t seen and that we hadn’t seen her as an actress.”
“And we actually really feel she simply knocked it out of the park.”
Zosia Mamet and Deniz Akdeniz return as Annie and Max, and the pair are excited to point out extra of the connection as they transfer to Los Angeles.
“Their relationship has had a brand new chapter, and so they’re transferring ahead in a brand new course,” Deniz shared.
“Child steps for them, however massive milestones as nicely,” the star added.
“In some ways, they’re in a greater place than they had been once we left them on the finish of season one. After which I believe in different methods, um, you already know, Annie, particularly, is a little more of a large number,” Mamet provides.
“Max is lovingly placing up with it, and so they’re watching their good friend, Cassie, who seemingly has all of it collectively, impulsively get combined up in one other loopy wild goose chase.”
“As in season one, they only soar in headfirst, after which we’re off to the races.”
Callie Hernandez and Joseph Julian Soria play Gabrielle and Esteban Diaz within the second season.
“We’re one mainly, and we’re pushed, enthusiastic about what we do, and really loyal to one another,” Soria shares of the characters, including that they’re each “very trendy in our pursuit of getting what we wish and we get ourselves into some mischief, to say the least.”
Soria mentioned that he favored enjoying this position due to the conditions his character bought into and dealing alongside Callie.
“It is simply enjoyable. It was good to be dangerous and simply to play out these situations.
“I second that,” provides Hernandez.
“Working with such a heat and gifted set to, you already know, our unimaginable costume designer too.”
“The crew was unimaginable, and you already know, It is enjoyable to be dangerous. And it is also extremely enjoyable if you’re working with one thing like this when you’re spanning so many various genres, the comedy and darkish comedy,” the star added.
“It is also scary and terrifying and form of discovering these layers, in that regard, and having love exist between Gabrielle and Esteban and, and likewise being able to some actually wild issues.”
“It is enjoyable to discover as an actor,” Hernandez shares.
Mo Mcrae can also be on board.
“I play a Benjamin Berry, who’s a hyper-focused, diligent, possibly even obsessive CIA officer who was tasked with intimately working with Cassie’s character to facilitate her work for the group, and issues find yourself taking lots of surprising twists and turns with this character,” McRae teases.
Mae Martin additionally seems on The Flight Attendant Season 2 as Grace, and the star mentioned they had been instantly drawn to the present due to the depth of the writing and characters.
“No person’s simply good or simply dangerous. Everyone’s bought this ethical ambiguity that’s actually engaging, I believe,” Martin shared with TV Fanatic.
“As quickly as I knew that the majority of my scenes had been going to be with Kaley, I used to be like, ‘oh, in fact.'”
“I believe she’s so good on this, and it is simply actually enjoyable to look at her character wrestle. She’s so likable and charismatic that it is simply actually, actually enjoyable to look at how the writers torture that character.”
“Grace is a fellow flight attendant and form of a harmful affect when it comes to Cassie’s sobriety,” Martin teases.
“They’re undoubtedly kindred spirits in a manner. They’re rebels. They bought alongside very well. Like each character on this present, Grace has secrets and techniques, and he or she has the model of herself that she presents after which an entire shadow self that she’s struggling to combine with this new friendship.”
Griffin Matthews additionally returns as Shane, and the star mentioned that the revelation that Shane was within the CIA was a shock.
“I did lots of season one, not likely understanding about Shane’s secret, and once I learn it within the script and talked about it with the producers, it bought a lot extra thrilling for me,” Matthews shared.
“I believe that in season two, we actually must now cope with Shane’s actual job, or his different job, I ought to say.”
“We now have to cope with the truth that his job is to avoid wasting individuals’s lives, together with Cassie’s. His job is to not get himself killed, so there’s like an actual menace, and as Cassie’s life is spiraling uncontrolled, it is also creating a very harmful scenario for Shane,” the star provides, stating that the pair’s relationship will probably be put to the check.
“He has to attract boundaries to maintain them each alive. You get to see a deeper layer of their friendship and a deeper layer of humanity.”
“It is tremendous humorous as per typical, however I believe we hit some emotional depth on this season that was not part of season one, and I am excited for individuals to get to see it,” Griffin concluded.
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