00:00 Evan Rachel Wood says she still doesn't know how Westworld was supposed to end,
00:03 and it keeps her up at night.
00:05 Last November, HBO canceled the series after its fourth season.
00:09 When Wood recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of her New York stage debut
00:12 as Audrey in the Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, the actress shared
00:17 that the abruptness of the cancellation was tough for both the audience and the cast,
00:20 due to the nature of how Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy revealed the story.
00:25 Wood said, "It was devastating in a lot of ways, because first of all,
00:28 they don't tell us where the show is going. We were just always told,
00:32 'We know how the show ends,' when we started. They weren't writing it as we went along.
00:36 They had an idea, and we were all just on a bed of nails waiting to see and hear what
00:40 the conclusion of this was, what it all meant." She continued, "We didn't get to have that.
00:44 And so after building an arc and a character for almost 10 years and not getting the payoff
00:48 at the end to see where it was all going, I think for us and the audience, it was awful in a lot of
00:53 ways." "The world out there is in trouble. It needs our help."
00:58 With the story seemingly at the end of the road, Wood said she reached out to Joy and Nolan to see
01:02 where they might have taken the show, but neither would reveal their endgame. Wood said, "I asked
01:06 the creators after we got canceled, 'Can you please just tell me how you're going to end?'
01:10 And they wouldn't tell me. I think because, I don't know, maybe somehow, some way, in some
01:15 iteration we'll get to finish it. But I still don't know. It does still keep me up at night."
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