TVLINE | You said at Comic-Con that Under the Dome‘s season finale would be a cliffhanger in the most literal sense of the word. Any extra hints about how that tunnel to Zenith will play into the episode?
It will be involved massively. There is evidence of the possibility of escape. Obviously, Barbie left. And came back. [Laughs] So there is evidence that it is possible. If you know you can get out, you’re going to try.
TVLINE | Ever since we learned that Julia is the monarch, we haven’t heard much more about it in Season 2. Will it come up again?
You’ll hear about it again. It’s not that it didn’t happen; of course it’s still relevant. But it definitely took a backseat when Melanie got introduced. Julia is the monarch now in the present time, but then Melanie comes back, who essentially seems like the monarch of her time, right? Melanie has all the same feelings that Julia has. She feels connected to the egg, but she can’t explain it. She wants to protect it; she doesn’t know why. She’s physically connected to it, in the opposite way that I am, which is kind of interesting. When bad things happen to the egg or when she’s separated from it, her health fails, whereas my character has been shot, impaled… [Laughs]…. stabbed in the ribcage to make a puncture-hole for air in her chest cavity. And somehow, against all physical odds, I’m sort of OK. And so, the implication from the end of last season is that my connection to the dome and the egg are somehow making me stronger. It’s an interesting juxtaposition between how her connection to the egg makes her vulnerable and mine makes me stronger.
It will be involved massively. There is evidence of the possibility of escape. Obviously, Barbie left. And came back. [Laughs] So there is evidence that it is possible. If you know you can get out, you’re going to try.
TVLINE | Ever since we learned that Julia is the monarch, we haven’t heard much more about it in Season 2. Will it come up again?
You’ll hear about it again. It’s not that it didn’t happen; of course it’s still relevant. But it definitely took a backseat when Melanie got introduced. Julia is the monarch now in the present time, but then Melanie comes back, who essentially seems like the monarch of her time, right? Melanie has all the same feelings that Julia has. She feels connected to the egg, but she can’t explain it. She wants to protect it; she doesn’t know why. She’s physically connected to it, in the opposite way that I am, which is kind of interesting. When bad things happen to the egg or when she’s separated from it, her health fails, whereas my character has been shot, impaled… [Laughs]…. stabbed in the ribcage to make a puncture-hole for air in her chest cavity. And somehow, against all physical odds, I’m sort of OK. And so, the implication from the end of last season is that my connection to the dome and the egg are somehow making me stronger. It’s an interesting juxtaposition between how her connection to the egg makes her vulnerable and mine makes me stronger.
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