Genya.
- This is the first time the Queen has seen Genya
- Guards, guards!
- Since poisoning the King.
- You'll will pay for what you did.
You monster.
At least you now look like what you truly are.
- And as you'll soon find out.
- Ask me how I did it?
- What. - She explaining
- Ask me. - How she killed the king.
- I put the poison on my body.
- And as we know,
and we found out at the end of last season,
she has been abused at the hand of the king
- So that every time he touched me, every time
- For several years since she was a young girl.
- He took some of it into himself.
All he had to do was stop coming to my bed.
- And so all she had to do to kill him,
was to put it on her body,
where he naturally took it into himself.
- He was your King.
- He brought it on himself.
- Madraya. - Stand down.
- Nikolai, you heard her arrest this murderer?
- No
Not after all of this.
- And the reason she's got the the scars on her face,
is because of the darklings work.
- She was under your protection.
- She's a servant. - He has,
- And you, the mother of Ravka, your subjects
were to be like your children. - Severely,
damaged her. - All of them.
So it was almost like her scars
were internal in the first season.
And in this season the scars are now visible
to anyone and everyone.
And she's struggling - My apologies
how to come to terms with it,
because Genya obviously, as we know being a Tailor,
- For all the abuse.
- She is known for her outward beauty.
- I don't want your apology.
- And so she's really struggling,
trying to find this new identity.
- What was done to me can never be undone.
- And is trying to still hide.
- What I want to know, is whether or not,
you truly mean to fix all that is broken about Ravka,
or if you were just destined to repeat the failures
of our previous Kings.
- And she's fiercely trying to fight
for what is right and what is just
(dramatic music)
- David.
- David has just put Genya in the dumbwaiter,
and she knew what that means.
And as you saw in the dumbwaiter,
she's screaming because it's basically goodbye.
And she's kind of in a bit of a,
we spoke about it on the day of filming,
how this kind of translates
and she's kind of a bit numb,
and she's kind of, doesn't really know.
She's kind of on autopilot,
and she's thinking no he,
kind of, in a bit of a denial that he will have survived.
He won't, you know, she's gonna find him.
So she's, kind of, blindly, almost looking for him,
ever, ever hoping that she's gonna find him.
And she comes to where she obviously,
they last saw each other.
You know, even reading the scene,
you start to think of how you can convey
the emotional journey of the character
and hope that you can make it translate.
And it's like, there's such a multitude of emotions,
and it's just trying to yeah, make it all read, really.
So now she's finally alone,
and she's not having to save face,
and she, that's David's jacket,
and in the pocket she finds something
and she previously told him that her favorite stone,
well they had a conversation about stones,
and she told him ruby,
and she's just found that he'd drawn a design,
for a ring with a ruby.
And she's just realized that
and hence her break,
makes me wanna cry again,
because obviously, I'm very emotional in the scene,
and as an actor you have to get emotional,
in order to convey actual emotion.
And that day I had actually not slept,
for even a minute the night before and I was worried
because that was at the end of the day,
and I was really worried
about how I would be able to generate,
'cause it takes a lot of energy, to obviously, emote.
And I was worried about not doing it justice
because I think it's a really powerful moment in her story
and the story in general.
But that was a couple of takes.
I mean, there were only so many times you can cry.
But yeah, just going back and watching that is just like,
ugh, I remember feeling like,
'cause pain, you know, is in all of us,
and accessing it, brings stuff up.
So there we go.
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