I'm Chancellor Agard and I'm here at UW's comic-con studio 2018 and I'm here with Lucifer's Tom Ellis
Hello Chance, how you doing? Good, man. I've got the ears go take a chance to get chance take a chance
I'm very well. Thanks little bit little bit high on caffeine. I
Feel like it's for all of us. Um, I'm happy to talk you because I just finished like watching Lucifer
Month ago cuz I've started binging it when it got renewed on Netflix, and I guess I guess I want to start with you
I mean we're worried when you found out that Netflix had saved it and what was your reaction?
Well, It had been it'd been a so lengthy process because I was in
In the UK when we got canceled
And then there was this outpouring on social media
We sort of spurned me to come back to America and take part in some meetings about finding a new home for him
and so but when that started there was still like a month period or afterwards where these sort of
Conversations were happening behind closed doors and I kept getting like little nuggets of information when I was back in the UK
And then it was like about a month later after we've got cancelled
I got the call from Peter Reuther Warner Brothers saying sharpen your horns. We're going to Netflix
So I was absolutely delighted. I guess were you surprised by I guess but I guess by the outpouring of fan love for the show
Um, yeah, I'm blown away bowled over
I mean, I it was the strange thing was I sort of I have this sense that because um
the show had traveled well
And I've done a lot of sort of press internationally outside of the Fox domain
That even though eating in season 3 the numbers on Fox were suggesting that the show wasn't as popular as it was
I was having a different experience today. And so when when he when it sort of
Became apparent. They might cancel the show. I thought well, I think there's gonna be a few unhappy people about now
I didn't quite consider how many?
and like I say
I mean it was it was
I was gutted when we got cancelled
and the thing that picked me up off the floor was the reaction I
Didn't at that point know it would then spurn, you know, taking us somewhere else certainly, not Netflix
So, um, it was it's been quite a sort of an emotional roller coaster
Couple of months, but I cannot believe that we're here talking about this very thing right now
neither could I I mean like so I just finished watching it and I was like so glad that I got picked up because it
At like the season the season ostensibly ends before the two, but I was but ends with Chloe finally seeing Lucifer's face
I mean for you as the actor as
going on this journey for three seasons that what was it like to finally get to that moment where clothes finally cease Lucifer as
Lucifer yes
Well, I mean, I was very excited that we were finally going to do that
And I think we'd sort of earned that moment over three seasons
It was part of the disappointment of the cancellation was that we just got to that point
everyone was like waiting for and then
there was going to be no more and it felt like well if that's the way it's gonna be it's a really
Great, but very frustrating into a long movie
But we just felt there was so much more story to tell and
Thankfully so did Netflix. Yeah
Yeah, and I know because I because I know the producers have said you guys are a start production in August
Have you had it do you I guess have you had a chance to read a script yet?
No, I think I'll get a script in a couple of weeks
I've had but you know loose chats about what's happening in this season, but I
I can't talk too much about it
Other than the fact that obviously we're gonna we're gonna take on where we left off in terms of the repercussions of that reveal
Okay, that's gonna be a big part of season four obviously
But I'm excited, you know about the fact that you know, we are ten episodes now as opposed to twenty two
Which means that we can get right down to the storytelling and we can you know, every episode will count
And you know from my point of view as an actor this that's great
Do you have a sense? I guess how the show will change I mean
Do you think you'll still have the sort of cases of the episode now?
I guess or what's the bounce between like the cases and the mythology will be here?
I think um, you know, one of the things that we you have to be careful about as well is that you know,
The reason the show was so popular is because of the way it was. Yeah
And so we don't want to mess around too much with that
Obviously there are certain kind of um, we've got certain different boundaries that we can play with him. Now. I
Think Joe Henderson our showrunner has been adamant. He wants to my bum on screen
For three seasons, and now we can finally do that
And so, you know things like that
But I think you know ostensibly it's not going to change too much because it was a kind of ain't broke. Don't fix it situation
But it's just you know, it's I think that there will be will be encouraged a little more to maybe explore the mythology
than perhaps we were before and I'm curious I mean
Where do you stand on the Chloe and Lucifer dogs? I know because America I was looking online. There's some fans were very much
I don't like him together
Events you like myself. Who do you want to seem together?
Guess where do you fall in terms of shipping them or not shipping them?
Well, I think I think it's the heart be of the show. Yeah, Chloe in Lucifer's relationship. I
think it would be
It wouldn't be very wise to get these two characters together
now, you know or you know before that I just
you can tease it up to a certain point and then something happens and they're not together because the will they won't may is the
Thing that that exists on yeah, so when you get when you get the characters together, ultimately, that's kind of resolution
Mm-hmm, and you don't want resolution until the very very end. So I you know, but I am I'm all for it
I mean Chloe and Lucifer's relationship is the reason I think many many many people watch the show
and
Exploring that and what she brings out of him and what he brings out of her is
of interest and lots and lots of people so
I'm very much for it. I'm just kind of
Biding my time. Should we say?
And I'm curious me
so Joe and Ilya because like when I spoke to them and I asked them what their favorite episodes of the show have been they
mentioned the sort of trio episode from season 2
Where you were we?
Almost went to that point with Chloe Lucifer and her life was on line and all that and tears for you
What has been sort of the your proudest moment the show so far
gosh, there's been I mean there's a few but
If I think back to season one
There's a you know an episode in season one that Colman Domingo
Guested in as a priest and before the priest walks into a bar and it was kind of it
Wasn't so much of the bigger part the storytelling of the first season
But as a standalone episode what would happen if Lucifer befriended a priest?
Yeah, that was the original notion of that episode and it just was one of my favorite episodes because one Coleman is amazing
I loved working with him two had a scene in it where we had a piano jewel
That's my favorite things on the show. It was one of my favorite things I've ever shot in anything ever
I mean like I was like a kid in a sweet shop
just a huge grin on my face at the end of that because it was just so satisfying and the the notion that
Music which is a big part of our show has been part of my life as well
Is it universal language and it doesn't matter what people think or believe they can they can they can bond over music
And they brought the music because I was gonna ask if you had a chance to pick a song loose for the sing
What would it be?
was a few
But I think I mean I what I like doing with Lucifer is taking some ones that we know and then keep putting a bit
of twist on him
So one of the songs we've talked about a lot
Which I hope might actually come up in this season is a creep by radio
Oh, yeah, so but there's this there's so many there's so many songs if they keep asking me to sing
I'll keep singing put in that way. Well, thank you for coming by our studio. This has been great
Stay tuned to UWM for more comic-con coverage. Thank you chance