Yahoo Lifestyle Paradise’s Jane Is Not to be Trifled With in Season 2, Sterling K. Brown Says — Here’s Why
In Jane Wii trust.
As Paradise viewers learned over the course of the Hulu drama’s first season, Nicole Brydon Bloom’s Jane is not to be messed with. The character, who started as a seemingly meek Secret Service agent of questionable talent, turned out to be a highly skilled assassin of questionable sanity. On Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond’s orders, she murdered boyfriend/fellow agent Billy Pace and made it look like a suicide. Later, also via a directive from Sinatra, Jane kidnapped Xavier’s daughter, Presley — so sneakily that the teen didn’t even realize she was being held captive.
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In the Season 1 finale, which began streaming Tuesday, Jane requested President Bradford’s Nintendo Wii in exchange for dealing with Presley. Sinatra responded to the inquiry with incredulity (“Are you f–king insane?!”) and feared that Jane had gone rogue and killed Presley without being explicitly ordered to do so. She hadn’t — phew! — but then flipped the situation with her boss at the very end of the episode: Jane shot Sinatra, who was in imminent danger of being killed by Xavier, and pretended that she’d kept Presley safe the whole time. (Read a full finale recap here.)
So, going into Season 2, Xavier doesn’t know that his trusted co-worker is a stone-cold killer with a penchant for discontinued game consoles?
“No, he doesn’t,” series star/executive producer Sterling K. Brown tells me, laughing, during a chat about what lies ahead. As far as Agent Collins is aware, he adds, Paradise is a safe place once more — which is why he’s leaving Presley and her brother, James, in his coworkers’ care while he sets out to the surface to find their missing mom.
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“I mean, he decided to leave his children behind. Robinson said, ‘Look, I’ve got you, don’t even worry about it.’ He has nothing but trust for Jane,” he says. “So the idea that there’s somebody left behind who was so instrumental in causing destruction in his world, by killing Billy, by following Sinatra’s orders?” He shakes his head. “She’s a loose cannon.”
Which brings us to the Wii.
“The chick is crazy about f–king Wii!” Brown shouts, laughing. “I have no idea. And you know what’s funny? I’ll be perfectly honest with you: In read it, there’s one question I had to Dan [Fogelman, series creator]. I was like, ‘Does this character play, bro? Like, will people be on board?'”
He recalls that the EP pointed out something that will bear heavily on Season 2. “He’s like, ‘She is the one thing that operates outside of Sinatra’s control, that is unpredictable,'” Brown recalls. “And so having that presence be in the bunker leads to a natural tension that I think will serve us.'”
Go here to hear Brown’s other Season 2 thoughts, then hit the comments: What do you think Jane will be up to in Season 2, now that we know she doesn’t care what Sinatra thinks? Hit the comments and let us know!
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