COLLIDER: Were you surprised by how many times Alanna was hovering on death’s door this season?
PRIYANKA BOSE: It’s like the arrows don’t kill her!
TAYLOR NAPIER: That girl got shot with so many arrows!
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I think it must have been 20 or 30 prosthetic arrows in her throughout this season.
She’s goingthroughit in Season 3.
[Laughs] So, there were a lot of battles.
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But that’s what you have to love about her.
How important was it for you to be a part of that representation in the show?
NAPIER: It was kind of a fun thing that happened.
It’s really just a relationship.We had to work together as a trio to define it.
What is the connection between Ihvon and Maksim?
What is the connection between Ihvon and Alanna, and Alanna and Maksim?
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Ultimately, there being two of us helped that, too.
She will go by that principle, rather than not.
But I don’t think she’s a cold-hearted person at all.
It’s just that grieving for her wasn’t a priority until everyone else made her realize that priority.
I feel like Maksim grieving more for his lover made Alanna seep into it.
This is why I am going away from the White Tower, to protect the White Tower.
But I’m going to go with my principle, being loyal.
Why am I an Aes Sedai?
Not everyone believes in the same religion, not everyone believes in the same ideology.
In his view, they should be hunting Liandrin.
Maksim storms off, but then comes to her aid later, after she turns their bond back on.
NAPIER: Yes, but maybe not in time.
She and Maksim both burn very brightly, and both are quite combustible.
So, he decides to go back anyway.
But feeling her danger and feeling her almost about to die immediately sent him back to her.
Did you two talk about what leaving the bond long-term is really doing to them?
Theyre like, Oh, that’s why we turned the bond off.
That’s why we do that.
That’s why we made this agreement.
And suddenly now it’s on, and suddenly now they have to confront these feelings.
There’s also the heightened stakes of Whitecloaks and trollocs and all of these things surrounding them.
He needs a second to go back into himself and have his own thoughts.
I imagine most people probably would not like that.
Not all the time.
BOSE: First of all, yes to both.
People will take what they might want to take from this.
It was very clear that Maksim came into the picture because of his love for Ihvon.
So, yes, they are trying to figure this out.
Could it be for just the two of us?
There is, in polyamory, kind of a balance.
Could it be something?
I feel like it was very sensitive.
It was approached, also, very sensitively.
That’s why it’s a polyamorous relationship, or things like that.
NAPIER: It’s a little of both.
When Alanna is at death’s door in [Episode] 6, there’s a change in him.
He’s always going to do that thing, butit’s also taking some responsibility for her emotional support.
The Wheel of Time’s Season 3 finale premieres Thursday on Prime Video.
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