this world is an Abomination it's
because of you humans we can do it the
easy way or we can do it the hard way
Choice explosive let
us I think it's time we take back our
town
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you know at the end of season 1 Amanda
lost her job she lost her sister and she
basically lost how she defined herself
as a as a woman in this town and um we
see at the beginning of season 2 she's
in a very dark place um she's really
struggling and it's like picking at a
yarn and a sweater and slowly unraveling
It season 2 is all about the unraveling
of Amanda actually the similarity of
what happens to both of the characters
is they they are very defined and
unusual characters they're aliens and I
in the first season we intro introduce
them and and you understand how complex
they are and how entrenched in the
cathan way they are and uh you know how
unique and and powerful and strong they
are and in the second season we just
turn the whole thing on its head and and
their situation is um very desperate and
they are forced to uh find new ways of
being and I think that in the second
season I think in the first season
they're kind of entrenched in their way
and they're quite rigid and in the
second season they're forced to stretch
and grow and evolve and that was really
fun for us as actors yeah
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what part of your character do you like
most I know what part of your character
I like most don't answer that no I I
love um you know during season one I
really struggled with you know cuz
Amanda was such the paana of the group
that um I really wanted to make her
flawed in some way and so I turned her
into a bit of an alcoholic and I love
that part of her where she's just a
heavy drinker and it's okay it's
acceptable it's who she is
what about you what do I like most about
uh what part of my character do I like
the most
um I would have to say that underneath
all of it he actually is a bit of a
softy but yeah that's I like the really
kind of you got to dig all the way
through but I like his little soft
underbelly I like the father daughter
relationship that's it yeah
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I I I think you're right I think there's
some really strong uh interesting
complex female characters in defiance I
think the um the writer once said to me
and it was really interesting that all
of the aliens uh personify some
psychological or um kind of resonate
with kind of some historical version of
humanity and certainly stammer
comes from a very repressive patriarchal
society and historically women have
really struggled for equality and so
that uh that that was very interesting
to me uh in the first season she doesn't
really question uh her culture um but
she starts to integrate more with the
other species particularly the human
Kenya and I think that she starts to
resent dayc and and in the second season
she he he's really screwed up the life
of the tar family and I think that she
is forced to survive without him and
actually she realizes that she can and
she starts to take her power
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back love very much so it's um dayt
isn't in defiance at the beginning of
season 2 stama is is there but the town
has been taken over by the Earth
Republic due to my um uh unfortunate uh
Behavior with a letter with a letter
opener in the study
and that sounds like a game and we
should make that game up clud clud yeah
day should dayt St clud inspector clud
Jesus you're killing me but uh that's
hilarious so in season 2 dayak is um you
know he's an exile and I think that
dynamic because in the first season both
of them are very much together they're
leaning on each other um but in season 2
they're separate they're secular from
each other and physically emotionally in
every way possible um so I think that is
has brought up many challenges for dayak
for stammer and um and as actors it's uh
it's a lot of fun to play because just
as we thought the tars were going to get
somewhere they attack ruines at all and
from where they came with a letter
opener in the
study and that's brilant so I so they
end up he has to they have to climb back
on the horse again they have to start
climbing in my mind there is all the
horses were wiped out in the in the in
the P I know but I still do a lot of
riding and Defiance to find a new
metaphor sorry stop it you don't laugh
at my jokes she wasn't she was laughing
at mine she you think so laughing at
both of them I'm laughing at you not
with you have you have you seen Gran and
Julie they're talking like this yes and
and it's very serious you I know that's
we're delious cuz we are
Delirious not hilarious Delirious no
exactly deliriously hilarious see that
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