00:00I'd love to have Henry be challenged as a DEI hire. I'd love that to come down the pike.
00:06I want to continue being a part of a show that is having a conversation about what's going on
00:11right now. As the agency heads into filming season two, Jeffrey Wright and Jodie Turner-Smith
00:15have some thoughts about where they would like to see their character's storylines go.
00:19You're not trying to help me, doctor. You're worried I may have somehow become sane.
00:32The agency is an American remake of the French series Les Berus de Légion that originally aired
00:37in 2015. However, it is set closer to modern day so it can address current world issues like the
00:43war in Ukraine and crisis in Sudan. Wright and Turner-Smith, along with co-stars Michael Fassbender
00:48and Richard Gere, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk all about the Showtime espionage
00:52thriller.
00:53Everything that's introduced in the first season, everything just tightens now. So it's
01:00like, you know, first season I thought, you know, and I'm glad that, you know, audience
01:03respond to it because it's a bit of a slow burn. That's the way it goes and you're sort
01:06of introduced to these characters and each of their different stories and then things
01:10just start ramping up.
01:12The cast and creators Jez and John Henry Butterworth haven't let on much about season two. However,
01:17the Butterworth brothers previously told The Hollywood Reporter that the series wouldn't
01:21address the real-time unfolding of the second Trump administration and its global impact.
01:26Yet there is one issue stemming from Donald Trump's current presidency that Wright would
01:30like to see an exception made.
01:32I'd love to have Henry be challenged as a DEI hire. I'd love that to come down the pike.
01:40Things like that, that his competency is questioned by ideologues relative to things that are currently
01:49in the political climate and watch. I'd love to address that and smack it in the a*****.
01:55Like Wright, Turner Smith is hoping to be able to sway the show's creators to a more personally
02:00favorable outcome.
02:01Because I've seen the show, the French version, I'm just like, I keep on trying to stalk the
02:06Bad-O-Wars to be like, so can we, can we make some certain changes so that I can get some
02:13more time with this one and some time with these guys? Like how do we make that happen?
02:20You know, and so I just keep on coming because I know where sad things go. I keep coming in
02:23with my suggestions of how I would rather this not go. Also, I'm very upset by the ending
02:29of the original show and I would like for us to end differently. Traumatized.
02:34Whether the Butterworths took Turner Smith or Wright up on their character suggestions,
02:38we'll have to wait for the season two premiere. But Wright remains firm in the opportunity for
02:43the series to explore pressing current events.
02:45So long as we're thinking critically, so long as it's smart, so long as it's well, you know,
02:50well-drawn, you know, well-researched and objective to the extent that it can be.
02:55For more updates on the story, be sure to head over to the Hollywood Reporter dot com.
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