Sterling K. Brown couldn’t feel more excited about how things are shaping up on Season 2 of his hit Hulu series Paradise.
In a recent conversation with Deadline, the actor teased that principal photography on Season 2 of Dan Fogelman’s political thriller is nearly done — and his thoughts so far include a lot of very gracious adverbs.
“We’re block shooting Episodes 7 and 8 with Hanelle M. Culpepper [directing] right now. Very excited with what we have shot thus far,” Brown said during a chat about his other Hulu series, set to premiere Wednesday, Washington Black. “We had a screening of Episode 1 for our crew, and we were all very, very, very, very, very happy. We’ll have a screening of Episode 2 next week, because Dan likes to show people the fruits of their labor as close to real time as possible, and it sort of inspires people to make it through the finish line.”
He can’t say much yet about what to expect from Season 2, now that his character Xavier has set out to find his wife. He’d believed her to be dead due to a horrific nuclear attack that was expected to hit the U.S. in the wake of a natural disaster that wiped out most of the planet.
However, he did say that his new Season 2 co-star Shailene Woodley “is extraordinary.”
“She’ll turn some heads with her performance,” he assured. While vague, it’s some of the first details we’ve gotten about Woodley’s involvement with the series since Deadline broke the casting news in March.
Brown also gave a shoutout to Julianne Nicholson, who was recently Emmy nominated for her role as the conniving billionaire Sinatra. He says “she’s got some gorgeous things to do this year, because she’s a gorgeous actor, and I would be doing a disservice to her if I didn’t give her gorgeous things to do any and every time she’s on screen.”
Audiences can also expect more details on Nicole Brydon Bloom’s Jane, whose backstory will unfold in Season 2, Brown says.
On that note, Brown adds, even though Xavier has left the bunker doesn’t mean viewers will leave it behind completely in the episodes to come. Instead, he says, the season will chronicle both the aftermath in the bunker as well as the outside world.
“The outside of the bunker gets explored, as well as what continues to happen inside the bunker with Xavier’s absence,” he assured. “There is a collision when the two worlds meet like: What has life been like outside? How has life changed inside? When those two worlds come into contact with one another, what kind of shamrocks and shenanigans can we get up to?”
The only thing that could make Season 2 of Paradise even better? His Washington Black co-star Ernest Kingsley Jr. joining him on screen again. Brown teased that he plans to petition Fogelman to give Kingsley a small role when he visits set soon to see a few of the final days of filming.
“The guy’s gonna be in full period costume,” Brown joked.
A premiere date for Season 2 of Paradise has not been revealed. Brown and Fogelman recently gave a few more insights into the upcoming installment while speaking with Deadline’s Awardsline, which you can read here.
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