The stars of Apple TV+‘sServantare a close-knit group.
Once the vaccines arrived, they were able to film season 3 all at once.
“Season 3 was a little bit of a magic season,” executive producerM.
Nell Tiger Free and Rupert Grint in ‘Servant.'.Jessica Kourkounis/Apple TV+
“We found this great group of writers, and sometimes it’s just a chemistry thing.
Everybody was feeding off each other and everyone became the best version of themselves.
For that limited time, when we were all together, it was magic.”
Julian (Rupert Grint) and Sean (Toby Kebbell) in ‘Servant.'.Jessica Kourkounis/Apple TV+
So what’s really going on this season?
“Everything seems to be going fine, everyone’s getting along quite well.
The baby’s back, Leanne and Dorothy are seeing eye-to-eye, and things seem to be going good.
Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Leanne (Nell Tiger Free) in ‘Servant’ season 3.Jessica Kourkounis/Apple TV+
As soon as I read that, it made me feel uneasy,” Grint says.
“It just doesn’t seem right.
You know with this show, nothing like that lasts long.
There’s always gonna be some weird thing that appears and ruins everything.”
Sean, for one, is taking a defensive position.
He doesn’t want anything like that to happen again, and thinks Leanne might be the key.
This could be okay,'" Kebbell tells EW.
Leanne, though, is ready to go on the offensive.
“We find Leanne in this state of fraught paranoia.
From Dorothy’s perspective, everything seems to be working out perfectly.
But a lot of problems remain unresolved.
“Dorothy went so far in the direction of literally torturing Leanne to get her way in season 2.
And she did get her way!
She got her child back,” Ambrose says.
“Now we meet them however many months later and the baby’s older, eating solid foods.
She feels like all of their problems are very much in the past.
Of course they’re not, and that feeling of safety quickly diminishes.”
Changing relationships
The relationships among this core cast of characters stayed pretty consistent over two seasons.
But season 3 will see a lot of these relationships shaken up and re-oriented.
“That was basically like Sean’s secret love affair,” Kebbell jokes.
It was such a useful tool for me to tune to him,” Grint says.
Of course, that opens up a whole other kind of can of worms with him.
With a new girlfriend in tow, Julian seems eager to forget all about his previous fling with Leanne.
But that might not be as easy as he thinks.
“There is a weird truth and honesty to the relationship that Julian and Leanne have to each other.
They’re drawn to each other and they don’t really know why,” Free says.
Julian resents the way that he feels because he doesn’t understand Leanne.
“She has no ability to see it that way.
So they’re not as together as they should be.
There’s a fundamental lack of honesty.”
