Rebecca Sonnenshine reveals all, including big plans for a potential season 2.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about the season finale ofArchive 81.
Talk about a twist ending.
Mamoudou Athie as Dan Turner in ‘Archive 81.'.Quantrell D. Colbert/Netflix
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First of all, will there be a season 2?
REBECCA SONNENSHINE:I hope so, but I actually have no idea.
But I hope so.
It was always meant to keep going.
We are always thinking about season 2.
Danisstuck in the ’90s right?
It’s not someotherworld we’re looking at there?
I think people do wonder, but yeah, he really is there.
I think this is kind of a spin on time travel.
So I don’t know if that would be true if there’s an old version of Dan.
But that’s an interesting concept.
That’s what I like about this version of time travel is that kind of anything is possible.
So anything is possible going forward.
So I’m curious if you have any ideas on who actually did that.
We definitely know who did that, and that is season 2.
Some things just didn’t actually make it into the season.
So that was a piece that we ended up saving for season 2.
When or where he is, that is part of season 2.
[Laughs]
Let’s talk about his brother, Virgil.
What can you tell me about Virgil’s real end game?
So it’s not like a calling [for Virgil], it’s just something else.
So that is something that we will be delving deeper into.
There’s no mustache-twirling going on here.
So there is a very sort of deep reason why he’s doing what he’s doing.
We just won’t find out until season 2.
What was the impetus for deciding to do it that way?
And Dina’s really good at it.
And real Hi8 footage, it’s possible for you to’t quite recreate it in post.
How did you decide on the look of the central god/demon figure, Kaelego?
He is based on a couple of things.
That’s kind of how the design began, a very still character who watches very intently.
Hopefully this is not blasphemous to people.
You guys also invented the chant and a whole new language used by the cult.
What was that process like?
Let’s start with that eerie chant/humming tune.
They were huge creative partners in creating the mythology of the song.
With breath in it, too.
They recorded so many different versions of the breaths.
So that was kind of all early on in the process.
We used that on set, we had playback.
Does it mean this, or does it mean this?
And then kind of constructing a language that went around that and then teaching it to all the actors.
So it was a process, but it was super exciting and fun.
What was that experience like for you?
you’re free to’t think, well, other people what do they want to see?
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