Dormer portrays Magda, a shape-shifting demon and “agent of chaos” in 1930s Los Angeles.
Very shortly after that, Showtime was asking, Would you ever reconsider doing more, Logan tells EW.
And I said, No.
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Ive done that story, Ive done gothic horror with literary characters.
But if theres anything else that ever occurs to me, Ill get in touch.
Then, he says, something happened: The world changed with such a seismic crash everywhere around us.
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Logan isnt looking to add another horror anthology to the television landscape.
One hundred years before our show, Los AngeleswasMexico.
The description is fitting, considering shestars as a literal demon named Magda.
For Logan, she is the aspect of the show that makes it aPenny Dreadful.
In the first season, well meet three of Magdas manifestations as humans, says the actress.
The audience will discover who those identities are as they continue to watch the show.
She says, There was an opportunity to get in the dressing-up box and play a range of iterations.
You have a number of characters all under the guise Magda morphs into for the price of one.
Plus, as she says, every good protagonist needs an antagonist.
We can heighten the life and death and the violence by using a supernatural figure within the storytelling.
She brings the sauce, basically, is what Im telling you.
What is Magdas goal on earth?
Well, thats part of the fun.
According to Dormer, shes fundamentally a skeptic of humanity.
Magdas sister, Santa Muerte (Lorenza Izzo), takes an opposing view.
