Castle - Season 4 Premiere will be Epic - Tamala Jones Interview

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In Part 2 of our exclusive Wetpaint Entertainment interview (Part 1, here), Tamala tells us about the tension that threatens to tear apart Kevin Ryan (Seamus Dever) and Javier Esposito (Jon Huertas) — not to mention Esposito and Lanie — what the future holds for Alexis Castle (Molly Quinn), and how she thinks Lanie should get along with Captain Victoria "Iron" Gates (Penny Johnson). Plus, why Nathan Fillion (Richard Castle) is hell on wheels!

Everyone is psyched for the Season 4 premiere, "Rise." Is there anything you can tell us?
Get everything that you need before the show comes on because you're not gonna want to miss it. Not even a second of it. It's exhilarating. It stops your heart. It'll have you crying. There are so many different turns, emotionally. It's epic. If people said the season finale was epic, well this is part two of the "epic-ness," if that's a word.

Will we be seeing a lot more of Alexis this season?
Ah, yes. And I think it's great the writers are doing that. The thing I love about the writers is that they write very naturally. Alexis is having hormonal changes, she's getting ready to go off to college, she has a boyfriend. You know, she's been talking to Grandma [Susan Sullivan as Martha Rodgers], she's been talking to Dad. She's getting advice from Beckett [Stana Katic]. But really, for her, in the study of human behavior, it's really up to Alexis to figure these things out. And allowing Molly to actually act those things out, I think, is therapeutic for her because that's the stage where she's at right now. Along with giving the teenage audience that watches the show, and loves Alexis and loves Molly, it kind of helps them through it as well. So you're going to see a lot more of Alexis going through her growing pains.

How has the dynamic on the set changed now that there's another woman in the cast?
Well, I love Penny. I've been a huge fan of hers since before What's Love Got to Do With It? I've watched her all the way up through 24 and the other things she's done. She's amazing. Everyone really is excited that she's there. She's playing the hell out of this character. She's hard-core. She's strictly by-the-book. There's no getting around the rules with our new captain and I think she executes that so well.

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