HBO’s Westworld star talks game-changing season 3 (and that viral Cats review).
She’s Dolores Abernathy, the Deathbringer, Wyatt and who knows?
But it’s something.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What was your reaction when you the scripts this time?
What about it blew you away?
Now we really get to see that play out in a way that we haven’t seen before.
And what are the mistakes that we are making now look like in the future?
How do they play out?
How does technology advance in a way that we don’t understand it anymore?
We know she’s on a rampage, sure.
But she’s also a highly intelligent, very strategic being.
This is all new territory for her.
And I think her relationship with Aaron causes her to question a lot of things about the human race.
You sort of lightly touched on each of my next three questions within one answer.
But let’s give a shot to go a little deeper on them anyway.
And I know this is probably tricky to talk about.
But what can we gather about her motivation at this point?
We got a sense in season 2 that she aspires to some degree of host global domination.
Or is there something more to it than that?
And she’s learning along the way, as well.
A lot of questions that have lingered since the first season will be answered.
Because she’s had a plan the whole time, we just don’t know what that is yet.
You said that she has to try and blend in.
She’s gotten more human-seeming as time has gone on.
It sounds like that continues here even if it’s just at a strategic level.
The fun thing about Dolores is she’s very hard to read, especially last season.
She gets to have a little more fun.
Now that she no longer has these chains, she’s 10 times more dangerous.
We know she’s escaped with a number of pearls [host control units].
So part of this may be a bit of a who’s-who kind of thing.
Can you give a sense of whether this is a romantic connection, a friendship, a business partnership?
It’s nothing black and white.
It’s very complicated.
Her one true love will always be Teddy, they’re bound together.
She’s lost him now.
She’s lost her core program.
A fish and a bird may fall in love, but where would they build their nest?
I would love to see a very pure version of her.
She was forced to merge with Wyatt in the first season and that wasn’t quite her choice.
Maybe she can find a way to remove that part of her if she so decides.
I don’t know when or how that would happen.
The original version of her is still in there somewhere.
I’m wondering what that would look like.
And finally, on another topic, did you get any flack in the industry for yourhilariously candidCatsreview?
Here’s the thing: I really never do stuff like that.
I don’t like saying things that are not favorable, especially about other works of art.
There was no malice in it.
I respect all the work that goes into these things, but I did have kind of a freakout.
Love to all of them.
But I think it’s good to be prepared.
