“She meets Gus, and then they’re this powerful duo and they are helping out the hybrids,” she said. We’re like a family, one big happy family.” Although her character, Wendy, already displayed some leadership ability in the first season as more and more hybrids came to the Preserve, Murray noted the second season was a chance for Wendy to “figure out who she is without her mom.” Murray added, “It’s been a blast, honestly. And it was so great to see new actors coming to this warm and happy set.” It was their first role for a lot of them. I don’t really have siblings, and I’ve never worked with kids before,” he told Rotten Tomatoes. And so, suddenly, that becomes part of the story.”įor Convery, part of the process of growing up was getting acclimated with the other children who play the hybrids. “And Christian as an actor and as a human being has grown up so much. “The biggest thing that you learn really is Gus, as a character, has grown up so much since season one, since the beginning of season one,” he said. Maturity is a key theme of the series, right from the first episode of the show, he continued. Mickle loved getting the chance to make things darker and more complex as both a creator and a fan of the material: “I think it was part of the goal,” he said. So there was a balance that we were constantly finding as we went along.” “There’s a whimsy that can come from that, but you also have to keep the stakes high. “We are telling a story about kids that are being held captive,” Mickle told Rotten Tomatoes. Jep and Aimee, meanwhile, have to find a way to get them out.Īccording to executive producer and episode director Jim Mickle, the darker tone was inevitable considering where Lemire takes Gus in this portion of the story. Gus, Wendy, and the other hybrids from Aimee’s Preserve are now in the hands of the Last Men, who plan to use them to manufacture a treatment for The Sick. Nevertheless, the bond between Gus and Jep was one of the big highlights of season 1, as was the relationship between Aimee ( Dania Ramirez), a woman running a sanctuary for hybrid children, and Wendy ( Naledi Murray), a hybrid girl with pig features who happens to be little sister of Bear ( Stefania LaVie Owen), aka Becky, a teenager who travels with Gus and Big Man for a time.īut as viewers will soon see, season 2 will trade in some of the show’s whimsy and serendipity for more of Lemire’s darkness. And, as it happens, that disease, known only as The Sick, broke after Gus was born. Along the way, he met Thomas Jepperd ( Nonso Anozie) - aka “Big Man” - a survivor of a plague that wiped out much of the Earth’s human population. In its first season, Sweet Tooth married the post-apocalyptic comic book by Jeff Lemire with an added dose of whimsy to establish the tale of Gus ( Christian Convery), a 9-year-old hybrid boy with deer antlers who may or may not save the world.
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