What is Mr. Jones up to?
Plus, watch an exclusive clip from the season premiere.
Are you ready to head back toRoswell, New Mexico?
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Well, one Max and one Mr. Jones who looks exactly like him, plus an impressive beard.
Where’s Isobel (Lily Cowles) at on her road to self-discovery?
And can we hold out hope that Liz and Max will find their back to one another?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Was the year time jump because of the pandemic?
To sidestep making that too central to the plot, or was that always the plan?
We also don’t acknowledge the pandemic in real-time on our show.
With showrunner Carina Adly MacKenzie departing at the end of season 2, has much changed?
Or are you still working with ideas she had in place?'
HOLLIER:It’s a little bit of both.
Jeanine, how is Liz doing in her new life in L.A. when we pick up this season?
She just hasn’t taken a second to acknowledge that.
It’s a fun first episode.
It’s fun to find opportunities for her.
And no Crashdown waitress uniform must be nice?
MASON:Honestly, I miss it quite a lot right now.
Should we resign ourselves to a season apart?
MASON:This season really is about these characters having themselves mirrored to each other.
Max and Liz need some growing and ultimately they can’t do anything but be orbiting each other.
We found so many opportunities to have such a beautiful language around the cosmic element of their connection.
It was so fun to navigate that.
I really loved following them.
It’s my favorite Max and Liz season to date.
HOLLIER:It’s not a season apart.
But it’s really about when am I ready?
And what does it mean to talk to my ex?
We tried to give them real grown-up lives.
Steven Krueger (The Originals) also joined the cast as Heath this season.
What can you tease about his character?
HOLLIER:He’s just an awesome human being.
You want to be stuck with a handsome and lovely and charming Steven Krueger.
“MASON:I love him.
Heath is just such a fun, whip-smart, fantastic character.
His humor was so fun.
There are some moments that are like, “Is this a drama or is it a sitcom?”
It makes it competitive and sexy.
Technically, Mr. Jones is a new character too.
Can you tell us anything at all about him?
HOLLIER:I’d say he’s a new character and a fully-fleshed interesting new character.
Mr. Jones has an awesome beard.
At some point, he might lose that beard.
A lot of people are asking me, “Is Jones good or bad?”
He knows a lot about our heroes' story and he knows a lot about home.
He’ll be able to answer questions for them.
This season our heroes will get to learn why they ended up here on earth.
Has Nathan enjoyed pulling double duty this season?
Or is he just exhausted?
MASON:He’s exhausted, but he’s such a champ.
I loved that the Max/Jones of it was also a real sci-fi element.
MASON:That was a prosthetic beard and our makeup team killed it.
He was not accustomed to early mornings, which, of course, all of us babes are.
It was a lot of extra time in the chair for him.
Can Jones dupe Liz into thinking he’s actually Max since she doesn’t know he exists?
MASON:You’re totally on to something.
It’s a real and pressing threat.
I mean, she’s totally in the dark and he looks like her cosmic lover!
How’s Rosa (Amber Midthunder) doing this season?
She really becomes an incredible asset to the Scooby-Doo gang.
It’s something that Liz is in constant adjustment to.
I’m a tough bitch and so is Rosa.
So Liz has to confront that and go, “I’m an idiot to underestimate you.
You’ve done nothing but prove me wrong.”
What about Maria and her visions?
We dive into it in the present-day and we dive deliciously back in time too.
HOLLIER:Maria is front and center in driving the first half of the mystery for us.
She’s burdened with trying to figure out whose death she is seeing.
Is it bad luck?
There’s a whole gambit at play.
Can Malex (Michael and Alex) shippers have hope that this might finally be their time?
We, as writers, put them at the same level of importance as Max and Liz.
So we wanted to really honor the next step in what they may or may not be.
Is Isobel going to continue to date women this season?
HOLLIER:Isobel is going to go on a more personal journey.
You got to love yourself before it’s possible for you to love someone else.
We lean into those possibilities by the end of who she might love.
It’s not something that is dropped all season it is something that you’ll see.
There’s a lot going on in the world and wanted to pump some humor and hope into it.
Will see more of Liz fighting to challenge the perception of the Latinx community?
I was really excited to just have Chris as a collaborator.
Over our hiatus, before the season started, I was doing a lot of reading.
I chronicled the books that play into Liz every season on my Instagram.
I was reading some Sonia Sotomayor.
Her book is just incredible.
I was texting him screenshots of pages of the book with things underlined.
Ten episodes deep into season 3, he’s like, “Remember that page you sent me?”
He’s a real dream collaborator.
I loved him for that.
Roswell, New Mexicoreturns Monday at 8 p.m. on The CW.
