They really want to be influential in the world and put forward their ideas. Jeff Bezos, various others, they’ve got so many billions, but they’re still trying to get more. I don’t think Bill Gates is a particularly attractive character - he’s certainly a man who relishes control, and I’m a bit wary of that kind of guy. But that just masks the savagery, barbarism and cruelty.īut there are other monsters out there, present-day and past, who are more fitting comparisons for Wilford. That’s why he’s successful - he’s attractive, charming and witty. He likes the sound of his own voice, and he likes dressing up to address an audience. Trump liked to use the rhetoric and the platitudes that a lot of American presidents use, including Joe Biden: “We’re all in this fight together” or “Loyalty is rewarded.” It sounds a little more sinister coming from Wilford, but it’s the same kind of message - it sounds grand, but it doesn’t actually mean anything. I couldn’t help but notice that and apply a little of that attitude in Wilford. He also could just dismiss someone very quickly and start laughing about it. ![]() But he talked like a regular guy, and that kind of brought you in. I didn’t like much of his policies, or what he believed in. I found him highly entertaining and rather funny. If I’m honest, I used to enjoy watching Donald Trump. Was there any aspect of Donald Trump that affected your portrayal of Wilford? After a year of lockdown, the real-life parallels were sometimes too claustrophobic - and too relevant - to be seen as pure escapism. Wilford’s gaslighting manipulations and abuses were an unsettling study of cultlike leaders, indoctrination, propaganda and authoritarianism. This Wilford was more of a cruel Joffrey than an honorable Ned Stark, ready to kill and humiliate his subjects and engineer problems that only he could fix, and thus receive godlike worship in return. But in Season 2, Wilford himself showed up, determined to take charge. ![]() This lie was kept alive for years by the train’s designer and engineer, Melanie (Jennifer Connelly), who created Wilford out of old voice recordings that she edited into new speeches. Once more, though, the biggest obstacle to this healing is humanity itself.īean’s character, Wilford, was little more than an idea in Season 1, a Wizard of Oz-like figure who had been installed in the minds of the passengers as the world’s savior. (The premise is taken from a series of graphic novels by Jacque Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette and Benjamin Legrand, as well as from Bong Joon Ho’s film adaptation.) Now, though, the story’s ice age might be ending the Earth might be warming enough to support life again. In his latest series, TNT’s “Snowpiercer,” winter has arrived - the Big Freeze, a cataclysmic temperature collapse that has disabled the Earth and forced a few thousand survivors to seek shelter aboard a train that hurtles perpetually around the icy planet. This interview includes spoilers for Monday’s season finale of “Snowpiercer.”Īs Ned Stark, the initial, if short-lived protagonist of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” Sean Bean was the first actor to utter that show’s signature phrase: “Winter is coming.”
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