How are you today? Wonderful, thank you.
How are you?
I'm very good, thank you very much.
Congratulations on season three of Hanna.
I was immediately engrossed from the beginning.
So well done. Yeah.
I was wondering
If you could start a little bit
with talking about where we find your character
because he's the very perilous place right now
. Well, for us, we had a we had at least a year off between the last series
and this one, and yet the story takes place about two days later.
So that in itself is really intriguing,
that it just jumps right to where you left off from last season.
So that's pretty exciting to see.
Suddenly, Carmichael, in my storyline, is being
basically used against himself
to take his own the institution he created to take it down.
So it's a great jumping off point for Carmichael, who's now
kind of being told what to do by Marissa Wiegler.
Hanna and I'm the source of their data to to expose and
and breakdown you track,
so it's pretty intriguing place to start.
And then from there, it just twists and turns and goes full blown action.
So it's a it's a great ride this year.
Absolutely.
And you play him so well because there's just so much
like could keep his calm and composure, but there.
So you can just tell that he's just kind of like screaming inside.
Well, thank you.
It is.
It is an incredible character who only says
what serves him.
Rarely tells the truth, is a trained spy,
so he he just plays his cards so close to his vest.
And yet the storyline just keeps wanting to, you know,
pull the cards out of his hand and and as you see it,
his his can, he loses all control
and it spirals away from him.
But he's,
you know, this survival instinct is so strong
that it really propels the the plot in those areas.
Absolutely.
So how is it developing this, these this new relationship
with Esmé [Creed-Miles] and Mireille [Enos] and and their characters?
Well, ultimately, I had
more scenes directly with Hanna in this where
because they're now connected, she needs and is is coercing
John Carmichael to to her needs to try and take.
I just I love season two where you see a young person
hitting against an institution,
and then she's returned to that institution
to try and break it down from the inside.
And we're all pulling for now.
In Season three, she has a she has the head of that institution
at her at that, you know, for her to use for her
to take down new tracks.
So also in this season, you really learn
how bad it is, what the ultimate purpose of this program was.
So you finally get into that reveal.
And it causes so many twists and turns in the plot.
Amazing. And also working.
Carmichael so narrowly defined their relationship.
Really, really is tested in a season.
Yes, there's been a wonderful, intriguing, some sort of relationship
between Carmichael and in the character that Mireille Enos plays,
and that's explored further, but it's never really explained.
So we love that stuff in spy thrillers, especially where you're left
with a couple of question marks.
And that's part of the genre
where they pull you in by confusing you a little bit, I think.
And David Farr does that beautifully in here.
The broad stroke is that Marissa Wiegler and Hanna
are working together using Carmichael to destroy this program.
So it turns out it's not quite that simple.
Carmichael maybe gets away from a little bit and then it's
kind of a chase down and us and, you know, really ultimately for Carmichael ,
it's just a matter of him lying in his way out of it and trying to survive.
So it gets pretty sticky there.
Yeah, we love that he's become a bit more of a Weasley character.
He's just out for himself. Yeah. Yes, it does.
It does become,
you know, for Carmichael, it becomes all about Carmichael, for sure.
And that's within these relationships.
So it really it runs on a couple of tracks at the same time,
which is also what we love about thrillers like this.
Yeah, absolutely.
And you've got an off a new relationship as Ray Liotta comes in
as another big bad that just like kind of shakes up everything.
How is it welcoming him on board to the Hannity?
Well, for me, it was wonderful.
Of course, you can only imagine that I've admired him through my whole career
and then to wind up on a set with him was really a high point.
He's a wonderful guy and a really threatening character
in here as we learn that he is.
Really, what
I learned is that Carmichael is not the top dog
in control of this program in season three, it's revealed to the actor too
that, oh, I guess I'm just middle management, after all.
So that's the way it goes.
And so really, what Hanna 3 does is it zooms out and it zooms out.
So you realize and finally, you learn how.
Deeply disturbing, the the purpose of that program is.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I I would drive it a bit more, but that obviously
I want to give anything away because we've spy for it.
It's just it's more interesting to go along with it.
It is.
But just know that Carmichael created this flawless program.
As you can see, some young female assassins
are just at his, you know, he's basically joy sticking them through.
They're trying to kill people until maybe he becomes one of them.
So you make you invent something that's so good that it takes out the inventor.
That's amazing.
Well, it's been fantastic to talk to you today, and I can't wait for people
to see this and see the kind of ride that call my book.
Yes, indeed. Thank you.
Thank you. Take care.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
You, too. Thanks so much. Bye bye.