Jennys story gets turned upside down in the season finale of In From The Cold.
Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutIn From The Coldseason 1.
In From The Coldchanged everything with a single phone call.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How should we recontextualize everything we know about Jenny after that season finale twist?
She knew everything that happened and she put herself in this position.
A season 2 would ask why she did this.
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It calls into questions things like Chauncey’s belief that he caught her.
He never met the person he got the dossier from.
She didn’t pick him, but she is involved in whatever is happening and she’s playing everybody.
Margarita Levieva as Jenny.Samantha Lopez/Netflix
Chauncey asks if it’s real, and Jenny kisses him and says, ‘you tell me.’
Then we see what she does.
Can two things be true?
She has a mission and may be falling for Chauncey.
What about at the start when she’s struggling with becoming The Whisper again?
She’s a spy and knows that she could be watched.
Did her plan succeed, and will that come into play moving forward?
I hear you, and it’s a really great question.
In my head I think it dies with her.
That doesn’t mean that someone couldn’t hijack that or touch that.
You got me thinking.
How did you go about crafting such different and dynamic action sequences?
Was there one that was your favorite or hardest to do?
I wanted to do a sort of homage to all of these different [on-screen fights].
I wanted that with women where they just destroy the place.
I had never seen that on film or television before, and that took two days to shoot.
What was it like telling the story in multiple timelines?
Will we be seeing other parts of her life in potential future seasons?
The plan for season 2 would be to follow her there and meet her new handler.
We’ll see her living a double life where she’s in college at NYU and has friends.
Remember, this is around when the wall fell and she disappeared into the cold.
Chris (Charles Brice)is a wonderful addition to the central trio.
Is there a path where he returns in the future?
Oh, it’sGodfather 3.
He tries to get out, but we will pull him back in for sure.
Chris is coming back.
There’s no peaceful life for him.
He’s now part of this journey and the question is what side does he end up on?
That is if he has to choose eventually choose between Chauncey and Jenny.
He’s a big, big part of the show moving forward.
What made you want to incorporate ice skating as part of the series?
I’ve seen the gymnast thing a million times in Russian stories.
I wanted something different.
I wanted a different sport and there’s something about the cold.
When I went to Spain to scout, I found out like the No.
1 skater in the world is from Spain.
Also, in ice skating, either you make it by the time you’re 18 or out.
That’s the whole other thing for Becca.
Whether Jenny shot Svetlana for her mission or to protect Becca, she kills her mother.
How will that impact her moving forward?
She falls to the ground and says mama in Russian then grabs [Svetlana].
Moving forward, she does eventually have to tell Becca the truth, or she’ll discover the truth.
She’s gonna learn about Svetlana and realize her mother killed her grandmother to save her.
It’s a messed up dynamic.
There’s something Shakespearean about it.
Jenny can take what she had to do, but she cannot take something happening to Becca.
The final Anya reveal suggests a larger plan.
How many seasons of this show do you have mapped out?
From the moment it started, I saw it in three parts.
I always figure out the beginning and end then just figure out how to get there.
It’s almost like a puzzle.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
In From The Coldis currently streaming on Netflix.
