“I was really excited by the idea of this character getting to branch out in more directions,” Canadian Connor Jessup told Yahoo Canada. While we certainly have the evil-ness down, this new season of Locke & Key also steps it up from the emotional side as well, particularly through the character of Tyler, the oldest Locke child. AMANDA MATLOVICH/NETFLIX The fear of becoming an adult LOCKE & KEY (L to R) CONNOR JESSUP as TYLER LOCKE, JACKSON ROBERT SCOTT as BODE LOCKE and EMILIA JONES as KINSEY LOCKE in episode 201 of LOCKE & KEY Cr. “It was a lot of fun playing a character that just like let loose and was chaotic and problematic and just can't be tamed, but wildly underestimated as well, in certain aspects.” “And then something happens and she's like, ‘joke's on you, I get to be my horrible self, but worse.’” “It was a lot of fun diving into a heightened version of the bitch of Season 1 because we see the redemption arc with Eden in the first season,” Jones explained. Gluck describes the character as a kind of “beaten dog” who eventually “bites back.” So I had to really challenge myself and find ways to be threatening and scary and menacing, without the easy thing, which is being massive.”įor the character of Eden in particular, she’s certainly a menacing character in Season 2 but we also get to see some of her fragility. “I'm a small man, in stature and size and strength, so I'm not the most threatening of people or menacing. “It was a lot of fun for me to explore this new territory in acting that I don't get to explore very often.” “When I auditioned, we didn't do any evil scenes, they didn't know that I could be evil,” he told Yahoo Canada. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gluck and Jones both play these nasty characters with perfection, adding a sprinkling of humour to keep us amused, truly making them a highlight of the series.Įven more impressive on Gluck’s end, he never even showed his evil side in his audition to play Gabe. The pair are really instrumental in pushing the story forward as the villains battle (sometimes in secret) the Locke family throughout Season 2. AMANDA MATLOVICH/NETFLIX Villains who 'can't be tamed'Ĭuse calling out Gluck and Jones as the evil duo is definitely deserved. ![]() LOCKE & KEY (L to R) HALLEA JONES as EDEN HAWKINS and GRIFFIN GLUCK as GABE in episode 207 of LOCKE & KEY Cr. While we can’t reveal too much about the evolution of the story, we can tease that uncle Duncan Locke (Aaron Ashmore) is a lot more present in Season 2 and is an important character that connects the history of the keys with the present day, a core aspect of the new season’s plot. Yes, the story can sound a little convoluted in a short description but Locke & Key, guided by executive producers/writers Carlton Cuse ( Lost) and Meredith Averill ( The Haunting of Hill House), is a captivating journey through fantasy, horror and mystery, so much so that we may have watched Season 2 in one sitting. While the Locke kids thought they got rid of Dodge at the end of Season 1, as we enter Season 2, Dodge has now taken on the form Gabe (Griffin Gluck), now Kinsey’s boyfriend, who has high school mean girl Eden (Hallea Jones) as a possessed sidekick. It’s there that the children discover these magical keys in the ancestral home and while they may lead to some fun activities, they also awaken the evil Dodge (Laysla De Oliveira), a mysterious demon whose goal to claim all the keys, particularly the Omega Key, which opens the Black Door and would result in demonic creatures being released on humans. 22).īased on the comics by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, Kinsey Locke (Emilia Jones), Tyler Locke (Connor Jessup), Bode Locke (Jackson Robert Scott), along with their mother Nina Locke (Darby Stanchfield), move to their father’s childhood Massachusetts home, called “Keyhouse,” after the patriarch Rendell Locke (Bill Heck) is murdered. If you passed on Season 1 of Netflix’s Locke & Key, largely characterized under the “young adult” genre, Season 2 will change your mind as it gets darker, creepier, more evil and more binge-worthy (streaming on Friday, Oct.
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