Or would that actually be horrible?
They aren’t easy or friendly superpowers, either they usually involve the aforementioned fireballs or mind control.
Thursday marks the premiere ofDoom Patrolseason 2 onHBO MaxandDC Universe.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What are you proudest of from season 1 as a whole?
DIANE GUERRERO:That I survived it!
It was a challenging role for me, equally exciting and also very scary.
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Do you consider Jane’s personas to be different characters, or just different aspects of the same character?
They all have a main goal, they all have a common purpose.
When you’re thinking about people and what makes us different, it’s sort of the same thing.
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That is all the personas' goal.
Did you ever feel proprietary about that?For sure.
You’re protective of your baby, this thing you’ve created.
Thinking about that made me let go a lot and just accept different versions of what I had created.
I love showing that in your head you’ve got the option to be anyone you want.
Do you ever wish you could draw on some of Jane’s personalities in your own life?
Like “Oh, I wish I could just turn into the giant fireball guy right now”?
Just like leave the scene and blow something up?
After the season wrapped, I find myself needing to get out of that space.
But then I realized that I could access different sides of me at any time.
I did play a lot with that in my post-Jane life.
Doom Patrolresonated very well with this year as a whole.
Crazy things are happening all the time that make you think, is this reality?
Just because an institution or a system says that something needs to work doesn’t mean it’s right.
Doom Patrolshows such a diversity of human experience.
Seems like this “normalcy” takes a lot of work to maintain.
It seems like it has taken a lot of work.
The Bureau is this whole Make America Great Again idea, where things have to be one way.
If it was normal or easy, you wouldn’t be on trial for all these awful things.
Did you have favorite personas to embody?
One was Hammerhead because she is so animalistic, very primal.
I love the contrast between the two.
Then Hammerhead rises up and telling Rita she can’t let it happen.
The contrast between them, and them hating each other so much, is awesome.
Hammerhead wearing Karen’s clothes was amazing too.
I think we’ll do more of that because it played so well.
Isn’t there a fascinatingStepford Wivesaesthetic going on with Karen?
And isn’t that a little bit of that normalcy that we’re fighting?
So Hammerhead is here fighting all of that.
What’s left in the tank for season 2?
I truly felt that.
Now we’ve established what we can do, we can just tell the story as organically as possible.
