Sons of Anarchy - Comic-Con Interview with Hunnam & Perlman

Given what you know about the upcoming season, how have things gotten harder for your characters?
CHARLIE HUNNAM: I think for me, in Season 3, having my immediate family – my baby – being compromised, and then having to deal with all of that and never really having time to think about what the repercussions could have been, or the negative outcome could have been, and then going to prison and having to sit there for 14 months and think about nothing but that, just being in the club has become harder for Jax. The big struggle he goes through this season is just deciding whether he wants to stay or not.
RON PERLMAN: For me, the fact that Clay goes and does almost a year and a half inside, at a point in his life where time is so precious and, with every passing day, he’s getting closer and closer to the end game, he’s literally losing his grasp. He’s been losing his grasp because of the arthritis, from the get-go, but he’s running out of time. Everything that he does, he does with a greater sense of urgency and almost desperation. That’s a very uncomfortable place for Ron, the actor who’s having to play these scenes, to be. That’s the most exciting part of it. I don’t ever want to be comfortable with anything I’m doing. It’s always best when it’s challenging and when the reach is beyond the grasp.

Are Clay and Jax in a better place, after having gone through 14 months in prison together?
HUNNAM: Yeah, they definitely are closer, I think. They had become closer, even last season. Once Abel got taken, any internal beefs just got all put to bed until we dealt with the greater problem. And then, going to prison was kind of a continuation of that. It’s not to say that it’s going to stay rosy forever because I think there’s a big, big clash on the horizon, but for now, we’re playing pretty nice.
PERLMAN: Whenever there’s an external threat to the club, then all of the internal, philosophical differences get shelved, but we’re always aware that they’re just shelved. They’re not resolved and they will, at some point, resolve themselves, once we get to the point where we can turn out attention to them, or they just grow, to the point where they’re unavoidable to distract oneself from.

Source: Full interview @ Collider