How has it been for you guys to collaborate on these characters for four seasons now?
THEO ROSSI: It’s crazy. The way the show goes is that you learn a little more about each character, with every single episode and definitely every season. I felt like, right away, we learned so much about Tig (Kim Coates) and Opie (Ryan Hurst) and who they were. They got really defined. You learn a little about different guys, here and there. With Juice, I always felt like you learned a little about him, and then a little more about him, but this year, since there’s such a huge focus on the town and the guys and the club and the internal relationships with everybody, you’re going to get a ton about everybody, really fast.
KIM COATES: In the first season, around Episode 6 or 7, Ryan [Hurst] said to me, “[Kurt] Sutter has found Tig’s voice,” and I never forgot that. I’ve never done this before. I’d never done a regular role on a television series before. I’d done arcs, but not this. I really, truly did not know what to expect. So, when Ryan said that to me, I got what he meant. Kurt was really finding Tig’s voice in that first season, near the end. I think that must be a big challenge for a showrunner to find the voice for the 11 brilliant actors that we have on this show – and that’s just the regulars, let alone the guest stars and whatnot – without knowing us as actors, and then getting to know us a little bit. We’re really good actors. These guys are great actors. We want more. We want to be involved, all the time, and sometimes that’s tough. But, I think the trust level has to be there. In the end, this will someday come to an end with the story that Kurt ultimately wanted to tell.
ROSSI: Do you not count the telenovela that you played a bullfighter on, for three years?
COATES: Never!
ROSSI: Never? You don’t bring that up?
RYAN HURST: The part that I’m impressed by is, whether it’s completely intentional or not, introducing an element or character, or the shade of a particular character, and then leaving it for a long time. I remember, in the second season, Opie and Tig are talking and we first mention Tig’s daughters. Right after that, with the next episode, I was like, “When is that going to come back into play?,” and Kurt was like, “I don’t know. Not yet.” And then, one of them shows up this season. To be able to throw it out there and have people just know that that’s out there, and then bring it in when it’s least expected, is really interesting. To be able to balance that with all the complex narrative that goes on, with fighting Mexicans and Russians, and plant the seeds for developing the more interesting parts of each of our characters is really fun to watch.
Source: Full interview @ Collider
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