The HBO series returns on Sunday with two new episodes.
Three days into production, the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic shut them down.
When they finally returned, creator-starDanny McBridehad concocted an almost completely new season of television.
Edi Patterson and Tim Baltz on ‘The Righteous Gemstones’.Ryan Green/HBO
Then, every step of the way, things got cooler and cooler and cooler."
“So I had nothing better to do.
“I love that lopsided dynamic,” Patterson shares.
John Goodman on ‘The Righteous Gemstones’.Ryan Green/HBO
It’s true love, but it’s difficult.”
“Junior brings out a whole different side of Eli.
It’s a different sound and I just started doing it naturally with Eric.
Eric Roberts on ‘The Righteous Gemstones’.Ryan Green/HBO
We hit it off from jump street.
God, he’s a lot of fun to work with.
And, initially, Eli wants to be as far away from that [history] as possible.
He’s fairly comfortable there.”
And Patterson is fairly comfortable co-signingMcBride’s promise of a “bigger, nastier, and crazier"return.
“It’s even wilder than last season,” she admits.
The Righteous Gemstoneswill be resurrected this Sunday on HBO.
