Evan Rachel Wood Says ‘Westworld’ Cancellation Keeps Her Up at Night – The Hollywood Reporter

Evan Rachel Wood learns about as long as followers when it involves what Westworld designers Lisa Happiness and Jonathan Nolan had up their sleeves for the last period of their hit HBO collection– which is to claim, she recognizes absolutely nothing at all.

After a collection of steps that see essentially the whole primary actors pass away, Wood’s personality Dolores– the initial park’s earliest constant host and its initial to attain self-awareness– is entrusted to the opportunity to offer humankind one last shot. “A few may escape death for a few months. Maybe even years. But ultimately, their kind will go extinct,” she says in a sweeping ending talk.“They will only live as long as the last creature who remembers them. And that creature is me.”

On an objective to see her love, Teddy (James Marsden), and examination humankind’s 2nd opportunity in the Sublime (an electronic aircraft of presence made by Westworld’s developer), the program teased one walk around the loophole, based upon Dolores’s vision for a brand-new globe. Talking to THR back in 2022, Happiness revealed why, regardless of the period 4 ending having its very own sort of poetic bye-bye, there was still space, in her eyes, for an additional Westworld period.

However on Nov. 4, HBO disclosed that it would certainly not restore the collection, which had actually encountered decreasing scores in between periods 2 and 3, for a 5th period.

Currently, Wood– whose personality was main to the collection and the instructions of the program’s last slate of episodes– informs THR that the abruptness of the cancellation was difficult for both the actors and the target market as a result of the nature of just how Nolan and Happiness expose tale.

“It was devastating in a lot of ways because, first of all, they don’t tell us where the show is going. We were just always told, ‘We know how the show ends,’ when we started,” she clarifies. “They weren’t composing it as we accompanied. They had a concept, and we were all simply on a bed of nails waiting to see and hear what the verdict of this was. What everything indicated.

“We didn’t get to have that and so after building an arc and a character for almost 10 years and not getting the payoff at the end to see where it was all going — I think for us and the audience, it was awful in a lot of ways,” Wood includes.

With the tale relatively at completion of the roadway, Wood stated she connected to Happiness and Nolan to see where they may have taken the program. However neither would certainly expose their endgame.

“I asked the creators after we got canceled, ‘Can you please just tell me how you’re going to end?’ And they wouldn’t tell me,” Wood says, giggling.“I think because, I don’t know, maybe somehow, someway, in some iteration we’ll get to finish it, but I still don’t know. It does still keep me up at night.”

Adhering to the program’s cancellation, Wood’s co-star Marsden spoke out last January, calling its unexpected end a “disappointment,” a view resembled by fellow actors participant Luke Hemsworth in November 2022.

“I’d be lying to you if I told you that the way we ended Westworld wasn’t a disappointment,” Marsden stated. “I’m never going to speak without gratitude about any of my experiences, but it would have been nice to be able to complete the story we wanted to finish. I love this Westworld family. It was one of those unique opportunities to be part of something where I also would be sitting at home ravenously waiting for the next episode as a fan.”

The star included that while he comprehended the economic discussions around the program’s manufacturing, “big shows have to have big audiences to merit the expense.”

“I just wish it was about more than financial success,” he proceeded. “But who knows — maybe there’s some world where it can get completed somehow. Maybe that’s just wishful thinking because I know we had plans to finish it the way we wanted to.”