We spoke w/ amitasuman_ about Season 2 of ShadowAndBone, her dream job, and exploring more of Inej's backstory.
Shadow and Bone returned for Season 2 and brought back fan favorite characters from Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels. The series follows Alina Starkov as she works to destroy the Shadow Fold, a mysterious shadowy wall that cuts her country in half. Along the way, she makes friends who join her in her fight and enemies who are eager to lure her to the dark side.
Oh, wow. I mean, I would love to see that scene, but maybe we'll see it in a potential Six of Crow spinoff. I know some of those scripts have already been written, and we're just waiting on news. Have you read any of them and if so, what do you think about them? Well, I'm in the same boat as you. I've read all of the books that Leigh Bardugo has written in the Grishaverse, and I love the Six of Crows duology the most. It's my favorite. And Crooked Kingdom makes me cry every time I think about it. But just leaning into some of Shadow and Bone Season 2, I really want to talk with you about some of your bigger scenes, specifically. So you and Freddy, you play Inej, and he plays Kaz. I almost just said Kanej, which is-Yeah.
So there's that mirroring of body language, but not necessarily mirroring of the words. And that's something quite... It's a really fun thing to play. And Freddy's just so, so good this season. I mean, the moment he walked into her house -- that's not her house, oh my God -- the moment he walked in when we were meeting everyone, and we were talking to the directors, and Jessie [Mei Li] was there, and he opened that door, I just knew this was Kaz, straight away.
SUMAN: Yeah, I was really excited when I read that. I kind of stopped breathing when that part came up, I was just like, 'Wait, what? This is... Wow.' I think that scene was really important just because, to portray chemistry between two characters who just don't physically touch, who have traumas, who find it so difficult to communicate— Their love language is, I would say, acts of service. And I think that scene was really, really important.
SUMAN: Oh yeah. If anything, I think absolutely, I've been dying to do that. It shows a big part of who Inej is, and I try and remember it in every single thing that I'm doing. And sometimes I think, 'Does it look a bit weird,' just because new viewerships who haven't read the books might not understand some of my choices sometimes, just because I have Inej's trauma at the back of my mind. Not at the back, at the very forefront, actually.
SUMAN: Oh, yes. So many, so many. You have no idea. Literally the whole book. First time Kaz and Inej meet, obviously the incinerator scene. Ugh, my god, I would love to do that. A scene with Pekka Rollins , right at end where she threatens him, she scares the life out of him.SUMAN: Right? It's such a good scene. And that's her, again, fighting for Kaz, without even him really ever knowing. Yeah, or the first chapter of Six of Crows, where they are having that standoff at the Harbor.
SUMAN: Wow, that's a good question. I think the biggest takeaway is to always just be grateful. No matter what happens, just to be grateful for that time, grateful for the memories, grateful for the experience, and just forever be open, and just forever be learning. I know that's a lot, because Season 2 really, it was the best experience of my life. But I think, like everybody else, we all have our moments of when we are all going through our difficult things.
SUMAN: I think, I mean, I never thought my casting would ever be in fantasy. I love fantasy. I really, really do. But I don't want to be doing fantasy for the rest of my life on every single project. It's a big, big love of mine. But I would love to get in the franchise of James Bond. I would love to do something as brilliant as The Notebook. I would love to do so many things, but right now it's either...
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