Here’s our first post-season 2 premiere round-up from the world of Fringe.
Below the jump we have interviews with Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and insights from the Fringe producers.
The following interviews may contain mild spoilers.
DVR Playground get some insight into Phillip Broyles from the multi-talented Lance Reddick:
Is this the season we finally learn where Agent Broyles loyalties lie?
Lance Reddick: I’m not sure, but I can tell you episode six is basically a ‘Broyles episode,’ where we’ll find out more about his backstory, his relationship with his ex-wife and his relationship with Fringe Division prior to the current team.Will a closer look at Broyles backstory include some flashbacks that might flesh out the character’s motives?
LR: You’re not the first person to ask me that question. No flashbacks, but you’ll definitely learn more about Broyles and why Broyles has an ex-wife.Has Agent Broyles had the pleasure of meeting his other dimensional counterpart yet?
LR: Not yet, but I believe that Olivia already met him when she experienced her deja vu last season.
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Lance Reddick and Blair Brown on THAT kiss:
“Neither Lance nor I saw it coming either,” Brown tells TVGuide.com. “It was great.” Reddick adds, “Blair’s a good kisser. What can I say?”
While the liplock might seem to have come out of left field, Reddick says he always thought that the characters might have shared a romantic past. “I haven’t really talked to the writers about the specifics of my relationship with Nina before this kiss happens,” he says. “Pretty much from the second or third episode [of the first season], I had always inferred that Nina and Broyles had some kind of romantic involvement in the distant past. That’s kind of what I always played as part of the subtext.” Reddick also points out that Nina is the only character who calls Broyles by his first name.
“When you’ve got two people who are very powerful and very dynamic, who also have a very intense working relationship, those sparks can fly,” Reddick says. “I think that’s part of the past and it never quite goes away, and that’s where that kiss comes from.”
“Last year, Lance and I would talk about our relationship, and we tried to make it as complex as we could,” Brown says. “Maybe I’d been his mentor [or] I’d seen him as a young FBI agent, and now it appears that something else also happened in those years.”
FOX Source talk to the Fringe producers Jeff Pinkner, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci about the story-lines coming into play in season 2 (unseen interviews from Comic-Con):
Anna Torv on Season 2 of Fringe.
John Noble talks about what we’ll see in the beginning of the second season of Fringe.
Joshua Jackson talks about Peter’s role in season 2 of Fringe.
Joshua Jackson talks to Hollywood Breakout about the new season of Fringe.
Lance Reddick talks about Phillip Broyles’ expanded role in season 2 of Fringe.
Anna Torv appeared on Ellen earlier this week.
