COLLIDER: Something that took everybody by surprise was the big twist at the end of the first episode.
JON BEAVERS: Very little.
The camera pulls back from Xavier, who’s looking up in the sky.
Image by Zanda Rice
It really had the effect on the page that it did for audiences watching it, which was awesome.
I did know that much.
He said, Would you give me one more scene?
Image via Hulu
Hes like, Im just gonna throw this at you.
So we’re looking at each other, like, Did you know that you did this?
I swear to God, I didn’t know that I did this!
I will say, on this one, I trusted Dan.
I mean, everybody should.
I get to bring some funny to the show occasionally.
Image via Hulu
We were all figuring it out together.
How does it all work?
Then you trust the post team to chop that stuff up and make it a delicious meal.
Image via Hulu
one safe way to begin is tostart with the relationship you already have.
What’s really there?
And then we can add, and we can subtract.
From the very beginning, I came in really admiring Sterling K. Brown.
He’s charming as all get out.
He’s very funny.
He’s super serious about the work, but that’s about all he’s serious about.
This is the first time he’s ever beenthe guy.
This guy is, I really think, one of the best actors working, honestly.
Buthe’s a better human being than he is an actor.
Little stuff, too.
He’s good at everything in a really annoying way.
I havent played ping pong in 10 years.
Generally, I pride myself on being kind of good at parlor games and dude-ish stuff.
So I was like, Yeah, Ill play some ping pong with you.
Kevin Costner recently entrusted me with a role in hisHorizonseries, and that was a milestone moment.
I can only be honest in these different aspects of him.
I got to take apart this little Russian nesting doll of information and then put it back together.
I think what he’s trying to show us is thatthere aren’t good guys and bad guys.
Thats just Dan Fogelman on the page.
Was Billy and Jane’s Romance Ever Real in ‘Paradise’?
You do have to play it as real on your end.
But the more complicated side was for her to decide.
Is there anything genuinely happening there?
That’s probably for her to answer.
She got a great line in the chemistry read.
And she said, Well, am I a good psychopath?
Because if I’m good at being a psychopath, I just did play it like a psychopath.
And I think everybody went, Oh shit.
Was she playing each moment in the moment?
And when she was a girlfriend in an affair, is she just a girlfriend in an affair?
Then when she’s activated as a psycho killer, is she suddenly then now a psycho killer?
I don’t know.
So, it’s fun to be asking these questions because I don’t even know the answer.
[James] Marsden has even said he’ll play his own secret twin if the opportunity presents itself.
It’s just absolutely a dream project.
So, there’s as much to learn in the future as there is revisiting the past.
With Dan, no one’s ever really dead, so maybe we’ll be seeing you.
It’s been like playing a great game of Mafia for months and months and months.
It’s going to be really exciting to watch everybody’s faces when they get to see the episode.
All episodes ofParadiseare now streaming on Hulu.
Your Rating
Your comment has not been saved
