Warning: This article contains spoilers about Tuesday’s episode of FX’sMayans M.C.
“During these moments of chaos, we fail to see the beauty,” Cabral tells EW.
Episode 306 was a true manifestation of that.
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Even in the darkness, there’s some joy.
Seeing Coco feeling carefree, even for a moment, was such a beautiful scene to shoot.
He’s living his life the only way he knows how.
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People who are traumatized at a young age have to grow up fast.
His mother was an addict and a prostitute; what childhood did Coco have?
In many ways, he’s still a little boy.
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He can’t be better because he doesn’t know better."
Once you get him started, there’s no stopping it," Cabral reveals.
They were both placed in this specific place and time together for a reason.
While Coco is busy connecting with Hope, the M.C.
is on the verge of a full-blown civil war.
Everyone was ready and fighting on the front lines, except Coco.
“His commitment to the club is his priority, so him not being there is inexcusable.
Being part of an M.C.
is not like being in a fraternity where you come and go as you kindly.
A true commitment to the organization is non-negotiable,” he explains.
Anyone who doesn’t do that will have to be reckoned with.
EZ [JD Pardo] got shot, people are possibly getting hurt and maybe even dying.
Everybody has to be there and if you’re not, that’s a problem."
When Letty confronts Coco over his drug use early in the episode, she wishes her father would overdose.
And when he finally does, it’s, of course, Letty who discovers his limp body.
“Being how this relationship is, it makes sense that she would say that.
History is repeating itself here, and it’s the journey that we’re on.
But the question on everyone’s mind is whether or not Coco will survive.
“I can’t tell you what happens!”
the actor says with a laugh.
“Humanity has only two options: you’re free to choose to live or to die.
That’s it, and that’s the choice he will be faced with.
Up to this point, he’s been on a trajectory of death.
