The troubledex-con had to contend with some major demons on Thursday night’s penultimate episode.
And it just might’ve led to more murder.
For the most part, Frank seemed to be doing well.
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He also praised Laurel for having the courage to save herself and Christopher.
This meant Annalise was left to cross-examine Michaela (Aja Naomi King) and Connor (Jack Falahee).
CHARLIE WEBER:Yeah, okay, well, obviously I was mistaken.
and he throws you a curveball here and there.
He called me to his office to pitch that to me.
I just accepted it and tried to see what I could do with that information as an actor.
It didn’t feel like it really compromised my performance because [Frank] didn’t know that.
It’s new information.
It does, in a certain way, tie up a lot of stories in an interesting way.
I almost played Tom Verica’s son onAmerican Dreams.
That role went to Will Estes, so I was fulfilling my destiny to play Tom Verica’s son.
Frank grew up in jail and has carried around the guilt over Annalise and Sams child for years.
Does knowing what he was a product of fundamentally alter how he views any of that?
I don’t know.
I think it’s just adds to the confusion of a very confused man.
This is going to be a tipping point for Frank.
This is a piece of information, I’m not sure he’s going to be able to process.
How much might this revelation totally upend and destabilize him?
It’s just further down the rabbit hole.
I don’t think this is going to help at all.
How might this threaten his relationship with Bonnie or whether he believes himself worthy of love?
I think that’s going to be problematic with him.
He will lose even further what grasp he has on reality.
Throughout all of this, I’ve never wanted to excuse his actions.
Is he a sociopath?
But I’ve never wanted to give him an excuse.
I’ve always wanted these things to be his choices that he’s doing of his own free will.
At the end of the episode, Bonnie posits Frank mightve killed Hannah and made it look like suicide.
How likely is that scenario?
Given the course of the show, it’s extremely likely.
Ultimately, we agreed and let Frank be the one who would kill Wallace Mahoney.
Whether or not it’s Frank, I can’t say, but that is simply the logical answer.
I saw it as acceptance, and acceptance is definitely growth, so yes.
There’s another person that is like him, and it’s okay to be this way.
Laurel was him trying to be a normal person.
and he can’t be normal.
How much guilt do you think he feels for choosing Laurel?
It seems to me theres some sense that once again his choices greatly disrupted Annalises life.
Guilt isn’t necessarily the word but certainly this responsibility to clean up the mess he created.
He feels liable for choosing her and all the things that came with that.
Guilt is not something that is really; he’s not hammered by guilt, it’s his ownership.
What role might he choose to continue to play in both Laurel and Christophers lives?
I think he knows enough that he needs to stay away.
I think he cares enough to know he needs to stay away.
How much do both Hannah and Xaviers death complicate things for Frank?
Might he have to take the blame for either of those?
It creates a whole new complication for him in that at this point, all bets are off.
Were you happy ultimately that it’s Bonnie?
That is his truth and to let a character find their truth means a lot.
He dropped the facade.
He found somebody who shares that same issue of they’re bound by this trauma and abuse.
I am so happy that he found that and accepted it.
To you, what’s the worse thing Frank has ever done?
For me personally, I would say the worst thing Frank has ever done is kill Lila Stangard.
She was an innocent girl.
It was at the behest of somebody who had control over him.
Of all the things that he’s done, that’s the one person that was innocent.
She didn’t do anything wrong.
And I do stand by that he did not know she was pregnant.
It definitely feels even worse now knowing that he killed his father’s pregnant girlfriend.
They were both related to Frank, which was pretty crazy.
It really turns things on its head.
Also, [Rome Flynn, who plays Gabriel] is my half brother on the show.
It really ties a lot of things together and creates a whole new dynamic for some.
What we tried to do is make the most complicated show possible (laughs).
Can you tease the finale and what’s ahead for Frank in the final hour?
As far as the episode itself, series finales are tough, and we all know that.
