WHAT'S TO COME FOR THE M.C. IN SEASON FOUR
What do you want people take away from the finale about how Jax is now going to operate differently than John did?
Jax was finding out that John's whole life was essentially a lie and that he was going to bail on it. His dad was going to bail on Gemma and had this kid with this other woman, and ultimately that he wasn't as strong a man as Jax had envisioned him to be.
I think Jax is not running away, and he is committed to Tara, and he's not looking for something outside of the life. Obviously, the decisions that he makes put him deeper into the machinations of the club. He's distanced himself from the notion of trying to change things. Really, in a lot of ways, he's becoming more like his mother.
Can we assume season four will open about 14 months after the events that ended season three?
There will definitely be a gap in time. I haven't decided if we'll start with them in jail and getting out or if we'll begin with them already out of jail, but we're not going to spend half a season or a season in jail. Sons is not going to become Oz.
What will Charming look like in 14 months?
It'll be a different Charming. There will be a new mayor and a new sheriff. The 21st century is going to land at SAMCRO's doorstep. It'll be interesting, because the 21st century will also bleed into their lives. The gun business will be exponentially bigger as a result of the Irish deal, so they themselves will be upgrading, but everything else around them will also be changing. Not that I'm thematically trying to make a big point in terms of all that, but Charming really has been Mayberry—it's been an anachronism, and in my mind, we'll start to see that shift, and how do they handle that shift. Do they try to throw the brakes on it? Do they embrace it? What happens to the big fish when the pond starts to get bigger?
The club is so poor, and their finances start to get really sad after a while. Will they at least make some money out of this new guns deal?
Yes. They've had a tough run, ever since Abel was born, between legal fees and everything else, but I do think that, as Clay said to Gemma, this is an opportunity for them to finish big. We'll see that start to happen.
Will Kozik be sticking around in season four?
I love Kenny Johnson and I love the character, but one of the reasons why I didn't vote him in was because I wanted to leave it up in the air a little bit. I thought it would have been too neat if they had all this conflict and then it just went away. And because we did spend so much time away from our core guys this season, next season I really want to find some great storylines for our guys. Kenny is such a great actor that I don't want to waste that on some little three-episode arc. If I can use him, then I really want to find a way to use him rather than have him reduced to one of the guys riding up on a bike.
On a related note, let's talk about David LaBrava. He's perfect as silent muscle, but what is Happy's place in the cast and how do you decide when he gets a line?
I say this not in a judgmental or flip way, but really in a character way, that a little Happy goes a long way. Do you know what I mean? Too much Happy storyline is overwhelming. The moment he had in the torture scene where everyone else is appalled and he's smiling like a four-year-old, that's all you need. Happy is a little bit of the sociopath, and you don't like it to get too stereotyped or clichéd. But D.L. will definitely be around. I think he'll be in nine or 10 episodes next season.
Regarding the new prospects, can we call them Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? And will they be sticking around as lackeys?
[Laughs.] They're so unlikely in terms of this club! It's my experience that the more time I spend with the guys in this world, that actually it's the guys that never fit in that are the guys that are pledging clubs. That's why I love those two actors. They're funny without having to do much with them, and I imagine they'll be back. Whether or not they'll be patched in, we'll wait to have that play out.
And is Dayton Callie coming back next season?
Oh, yes, yes, definitely.
We got a lot of new gangs this year: the Irish Kings are kind of like a gang, plus Grim Bastards and Calaveras—are we done adding new gangs, or do you plan to keep expanding the universe?
Perhaps. I don't know if we'll do any more MCs next year, but on The Shield every couple of seasons we would get bored with our clubs and gangs, and we'd introduce new ones, but I think some that we've introduced will come back. The Hell's Angels has this relationship with the East Bay Dragons up in Oakland, which is a black club, and that was sort of the inspiration behind the relationship between the Grim Bastards and the Sons. It's just such an odd thing for me, that there's that old-school rule in these MCs where you can be every other race except African-American, you can be every religion, but you can't be black, and yet they have these relationships with clubs that are all black, and they're friends, they hang out together, they go on runs together. And they all get along, but [the segregation is] just accepted on a certain level, and I just find that fascinating—it's just a very interesting dynamic that they all live by.
Is it true that Lenny the Pimp is one of the First Nine founders of the club? Are we going to see more of him next season?
Possibly. I think Sonny Barger [a legendary real-life member of Hell's Angels] was fun and did a great job, and if there's room for it in the story, I'm sure I can get Sonny to come back and do something, yeah. And yes, Lenny was part of the First Nine; I think we talk about it in the iPad app—we have a whole thing coming out on the First Nine. The only ones still living are Clay (Ron Perlman), Piney (William Lucking) and Lenny.
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