We spoke with benbarnes about ShadowAndBone2, what dialogue he wanted to keep from the books, and why he is happy to play the villain:
A wise person once said that the best kinds of villains are characters who see themselves as the hero of their own stories. And it’s true—very few villains are evil simply for the sake of being evil, or delight in simply doing wrong for its own sake. The best have their own motivations and perspectives, as well as deeply felt hurts, loves, and griefs that shape not only who they are, but how they see the world around them.
“I was relieved to find that out from a very personal, selfish perspective because, in the second book, my character barely shows up,” Barnes laughs. “He’s very representative of something dark in Alina’s dreams [in] and I thought, well, that feels a little bit derivative because if it were to be played out onscreen, I’d just be turning up to haunt her dreams. And I was hoping to play something a bit more complex than that.
“As the season goes on, it gives me an opportunity to spread my wings, and to really get nasty with it, which for me was actually something I haven’t really done before,” he continues. “I’ve tried—I’ve been trying so hard to keep the vulnerability, and I think there’s a lot of humanity in the character still, but the edges of humanity that are maybe not as clean.”first season, he’s much closer to an anti-hero than an outright villain.
“He’s definitely much more toxic, much darker, much more Machiavellian, and much more rageful this season. I think that it’s less sexy,” Barnes says “It’s less a traditional fantasy sort of triangle. Love doesn’t really feed into it. It’s more about power dynamics. Now, I think there’s a dynamic between them where they can both start to attempt to manipulate [one another]. It’s just in the first season he was much better at it than her.
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