(hip hop drum beat)
- Hi, this is Marya Gullo from the Hollywood Reporter,
and I'm in studio today with Evan Rachel Wood.
Hi, Evan. - Hi.
- How are you doing? - I'm great.
- We are a day after the first episode airing of Westworld.
- Finally made it. - Yes. Yes.
It's been a long time coming.
- It's been a long time. - It's been over a year.
We're at the point now where we're going full Jurassic Park.
- Yes, and that's where we're starting.
So imagine where we're gonna go.
(Marya laughs)
- Yes, we talked a little bit off camera
about how this season as it unfolds is really,
really action-packed and it is really...
Like, things are changing very quickly.
- The game is changing drastically every episode.
I think the first season there was kind of
a build up into these reveals. - World building.
- And, world building.
And this season for me is just one episode after the other,
it's like the game expands and expands and expands
and is so much bigger than you even thought possible.
So I'm really...
Wait 'til episode two. (laughs)
- [Marya] I'm getting excited about that.
So let's go over a couple of, just some theories.
I know that we can't really reveal anything,
but I did wanna ask you personally,
now that we know that there are six parks,
do you know what all the six parks are?
- I do not know what all the six parks are.
I know only the ones that we see on the show...eventually.
(Marya laughs)
But I don't...
We all have theories.
We're finding out kind of as we get the scripts,
and they don't really like us knowing anything
before our characters know so...
- Right, and I've heard that some characters
get more information than others.
Like Jimmy Simpson gets less information than Ed Harris
because he's playing a younger version of himself,
but you're a host so do you get more information?
- You would think. You would think.
And especially this season considering
she has all of her memories, she's awake,
she's taken control.
I thought they would just tell me everything,
but they did not.
They kept droppin' bombs on me.
I knew more than I did last season,
but I actually felt like I knew less this season.
- Wow, and Lisa Joy has said that the characters
do evolve based on the actors who are cast for the roles.
So did you see more of yourself or more of your...
your interests in the new season?
- Yes, and I think what we saw in episode one
in that first scene with Dolores is that she has
at least three different characters
swimming around in there right now,
and one of them is the Dolores that we know and love,
one of them is this new character Wyatt,
and the other one is a version of herself
that she is creating throughout Season Two.
So in those moments, yeah.
Especially even doing that scene,
I realized I was just using my normal voice, no accent.
Still slightly like a heightened version of myself,
but definitely bringing more of my real self
into the character which was very strange to get used to.
'Cause we were so attached to how they were that now,
since the rules have changed, the characters are changing
and so we have to kind of reinvent them and it's weird.
(they laugh)
- That first speech that you give
when you're terrifying the customers...
- Yes.
- As, kind of like you said, this combination
of Dolores and Wyatt, how did it feel
to be delivering those lines
'cause that was kind of a very masculine role.
The role of a villain in a Western.
How did it feel to deliver those lines?
- This whole season really was like wearing a glove
that didn't quite fit or that you weren't used to
because I had to do things and be commanding
and be almost like a general,
and people are under my command and I'm doling out orders,
and I'm usually really good at memorizing my lines,
but this season I had a really hard time
because I've never been asked
to play these kinds of roles before.
And so it was a very foreign thing,
but very empowering and rare and...
But challenging because it was such a new set
of shoes to wear, but that made it exciting.
- Yeah. And you've said before that the...
Some of the things that make you uncomfortable
about Season One, like the way that the hosts are treated,
you said just hang in there because things are changing.
So is Season Two...
Are we there?
Are we in the place now where we can be like alright...
- I would say so. Yes.
Yes. Most definitely.
It's a completely equal playing field now
between hosts and humans, and we're in the war.
This is the season of the war, yeah.
- There's some of the headier theories and philosophies
that kind of circulate in this world.
- That's like my favorite part of the show.
(laughs)
- So what do you think about that?
Like the theory of the bicameral mind
or any of the higher consciousness thoughts?
- Well, it's interesting.
So the bicameral mind, we were talking
about this before the cameras were rolling,
is about consciousness and hearing the voice in your head
and thinking, before we really knew what that meant,
thinking somebody was talking to you,
and then we realized that since we don't know
what consciousness is, we've tried to pinpoint it as,
it's a conversation with yourself.
It's you being able to talk to yourself
and realizing that that's you speaking to you,
but before we knew what that was,
we thought God was talking to us or voices.
It's why there's that amazing scene with Anthony and I
at the end of Season One where he shows the painting
on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
and saying, "Look, there's been clues in plain sight."
And I think that really sums up the show.
I think what we're asking the audience to do
is not take anything for granted
and to think that one step further
and to maybe look at things differently
for different answers and to actually question
the nature of your reality,
which I feel like I do every day on the show anyway.
I usually have an existential crisis
after every season 'cause it makes me look...
It truly makes me look at the world differently.
- Yeah, I mean just being on a television set
almost feels like you're in an existential world
where you're like, am I pretending?
Who I'm being? - Yes.
- Where am I going with this?
People are telling you what to do,
but then you have to make your own choices.
- Uh huh. Yeah.
It's very much like being a guest in the park.
Especially since we're not given all the information.
We kind of just show up and things are given to us,
and we get sort of an idea of what we're doing,
and then we just have to kind of blindly go through it.
And the sets are so massive.
And you're in full character, full period clothing.
So it really does feel like you've walked into another world
the second you step on the set.
It's completely immersive.
You can walk in and out of the buildings.
Everything's dressed.
So it certainly alters your reality for a bit,
and I think it takes us all some time to just come down
after the show and reintegrate ourselves
back into the 'real world' since Westworld is so intense.
- Wow, and then we're also, once again in this season,
playing around with multiple timelines.
- Oh, yeah.
- Can you tell us anything about that?
Are things going to become more clear
as the season goes on or are we going
to continually be confused and be watching
for like Arnold's or Bernard's tie to change?
- Well, again, the rules have changed.
But I watched the first episode,
and I was trying to piece together the timelines myself
because we shot out of order.
So I don't actually know what the right order
the show goes in.
Sometimes I didn't really know what episode we were on.
That goes for the whole cast.
So, yes. I think it's gonna take...
We'll play down to the audience.
What's fun about the show is that you can watch it,
you don't have to figure things out.
It still will unfold and you'll get the answers
and it's amazing to watch,
but if you do wanna take it that step further,
I mean, we've littered the show with clues
and Easter eggs and things to sort of guide you
in the right direction,
but they're definitely harder to find this season, I think.
- Okay, so one of the Easter eggs I think I noticed
was the opening sequence.
- Yeah, we got a new opening. - There's a baby host.
- Mmm. (Marya laughs)
Is it a host?
- I mean who knows? - I don't know either.
I was watching that going like, "Oh, what's this?"
(laughs)
Could be, you know, Maeve and her daughter though.
You don't know. - It could be.
- Yeah, I don't know. - So curious.
Especially after seeing Blade Runner
and then Blade Runner 2049 and it starts raising
a lot of questions about what's circulating
in the creative world about AI and how AI is created.
- I agree. I don't think anything is there by accident.
I think you should ask questions about everything.
I wondered the same thing. (laughs)
So I'm actually watching the show unfold
with everybody else because all of us usually
have so much work to do with our own storylines
that it's hard to take in or read everybody else's.
And then we also kind of like to stay away
from other people's storylines
so that we can watch the show as a viewer.
So there was stuff in the first episode
that I was watching for the first time.
I had no idea what everybody else was doing.
- Is anything shocking you or, you don't have to say it,
but is anything...
Are you like "Oh, boy"?
- Nothing's been really shocking,
but I'm always blown away by how good
everybody on the show is.
And you can just tell the tone has shifted,
everyone's really settled into their roles nicely,
and I just think the acting is even better this season.
It's just different, but that always just blows me away.
I mean, Jeffrey Wright, good Lord.
He's got such an amazing arc this season.
So I'm just excited to see what everybody else has done.
Thandie, I mean I love watching her.
There's just...
When I see everybody in their roles,
I just think no one else could do these roles.
Like you were made to play each and every one of these.
It's great.
- I could tell by talking to you
that there's probably some storylines
that aren't going to cross paths in this upcoming season,
but are you able to reunite with some of the people
you has scenes with in the last season?
Will you...
I'm like, I feel like Chris Farley right now
telling, "It's so cool..." (Evan laughs)
"It's so cool what you guys do."
- That was one of my favorite skits.
You know, I don't think we're gonna disappoint.
I think people will be running back into each other,
but not in the ways that people expect.
That's why the show is so great.
Everyone has very different objectives.
Yeah, I don't know how much I can say
without giving it away, but yes.
But maybe not quite how we imagine in the end.
- Does working on a show like Westworld
give you optimism for the future
or does it kind of freak you out about where we're going?
- The fact that the show is being made gives me optimism,
but I, when I started doing research for the show,
I was really afraid of AI,
and then really tried to learn as much as I could about it
and how it works and the possibilities
so that I could understand my character.
And the more I learned about it, the more I thought,
"Wow, they're gonna be so much better than us."
Better problem solvers.
They're gonna be more logical.
They're not gonna be bogged down by all this...
All these stories that we tell ourselves.
And they're just gonna surpass us in every way.
So by the end I was like,
"Maybe we should just let them take over."
(they laugh) It's gonna be better.
But I'm also hoping that they will be fans of Westworld,
and maybe accept me as one of their own
when the robot revolution comes.
That's what I'm hoping for.
- Right. Just blend in. - Exactly.
- In the past year I've interviewed a lot of people,
and most everybody says that they were affected
pretty profoundly by the election
and just the events that happened in the country
after the election,
but I believe that you were particularly affected.
- It sent me to a bit of a 10. (laughs)
- You know, you've now decided to...
- Share. - Yeah. To share.
To use your experience as a platform for others.
So where do you wanna go with that? What is the goal?
- I think the goal is to humanize people
and to create a sense of empathy.
To understand different points of view
so that we can care more and actually do something about it.
But also to build a community
of survivors and of people in need of that
so that they know they're not alone and to have resources
and so that we can help people cope and deal.
But, you know, also what's been amazing
about these movements and everything that's been happening
is that we're really talking about it in a different way,
and now, the next step is to actually put that into action
and really change things.
And so I think that's what we're trying to do
and that's what Thandie's been doing for years.
And all the women on the show really do mirror
their characters in similar ways because of that.
- And you have an opportunity now
to work on some of your personal projects.
Do you have anything that you're working on?
- Yeah, I'm still making music.
I'm kind of doing solo stuff and playing some shows
around LA with my good friend Zane Carney.
And I'm writing. I write a column for Nylon occasionally.
Very close to getting some of my own films made.
I'm really starting to...
You know, Westworld's been wonderful.
I shadow all the directors.
I try to learn as much as I can.
- That's cool.
- Because they're the best of the best.
So I wanna get behind the camera one day
and make my own things.
So that's kind of what I've been doing
while I've been off of Westworld.
Really just recuperating until I have to
go back into the park.
- [Marya] Yeah. (laughs)
Well as you are out of the park,
we get to go into the park so Evan,
thank you very much and...
- Hold onto something. (laughs)
- We look forward to the next few Sundays.
- I can't wait for people to see the next episode.
That's when we're really gonna go
into some uncharted territory,
and the stakes will be raised.
Even more. - Can you give me one word?
Give me one word to tease it out.
- Where are we? (Marya laughs)
- Where are we? - I mean that's not one word.
It's one question. (laughs)
- Westworld, everybody. Bye. - Bye.







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