I think despite the animosity between Franklin and Jerome right now, Franklin blames Louie for all of it. Break this down for me, Damson.ĭI: Jerome was a father figure to Franklin. I know it’s frustrating to not have all the answers but Lucia just isn’t his person anymore.ĭEADLINE: In one of the most impactful and emotional scenes of the series, we really get to see how lost Franklin is when he meets his uncle at the diner. Oso has found the thing he wants that was really important to him. What he always wanted was a family and he thought with Lucia he was going to get it but he realized she was not that person. ![]() ![]() Regarding Lucia, I think Oso’s story has moved on. When you look at the pieces on the board, there’s this game of survival and who is going to give me the best chance of getting out alive. We knew where we were going with things and there was a reason we sent Franklin and Oso on that odyssey together last season. What can we expect from them and if you plan to give Oso closure with Lucia (Emily Rios)?ĭA: Those two have an interesting history that goes a long way back. But then we realized at a certain point that the love for Franklin was so great that if he was on Team Franklin, people were Team Teddy.ĭEADLINE: Dave, Franklin and Oso’s paths crossed again this season. I was like, no, no, he’s the white dude and the government so he’s the bad guy. I assumed people were not going to like the CIA and Teddy. They were aligned for a long time, both personally and professionally. These are two young guys who are incredibly ambitious and are very easily able to compartmentalize and say that the ends justify the means. Are their fates intertwined?ĭA: I think for all the things that separate Teddy and Franklin, there are similarities. When you think about the evolution of that character, and then see him now after he’s risen so high and now has his back against the wall, you’re gonna find out what is he capable of.Ĭarter Hudson as Teddy McDonald, Sergio Peris-Mencheta as Gustavo ‘El Oso’ ZapataĭEADLINE: When looking back on the series, there are plenty of parallels between Franklin’s journey and Teddie’s. I think the evolution of that has been part of the fun and trying to find the unique idiosyncratic ways to do it with Franklin and let Damson really play. Yeah, he’s a f***ing kid who went to prep school in the valley, he’s not a gangster. Now he’s getting a little closer to those rocks.ĭEADLINE: Dave, what insight can you give into the process of writing the character of Franklin and his evolution across 6 seasons?ĭAVE ANDRON: This guy from minute one was like, “I want to be a badass I want to be cool,” and I was like, “Look, you’re a kid who’s getting into a dangerous game.” I remember over the first couple of seasons, fans would say how bad Franklin was at this and how he’s getting his ass whooped. And, just in comparison to how I played him before, Franklin was someone who was a daredevil who would just dive off a cliff and he didn’t hit any rocks at the bottom. Now he’s anything but and the cracks are showing. He’s always been confident even when out of his league. The good thing about Franklin this season actually- Veronique says, “You’ve always been able to see the rational and irrational things”- and that’s something he’s always played out. That’s the biggest note I’ve given myself this season just playing with the anxiety and the uncertainty of it all. What insight can you share into what’s going through his mind?ĭAMSON IDRIS: I think you’ve hit the nail on the head: he’s really in survival mode. ![]() Series co-creator Dave Andron and star Damson Idris break down the events of the premiere episodes and set up what’s ahead.ĭEADLINE: Damson, when we see Franklin at the start of this season, he’s like a cornered cat ready to scratch. Quincy Chad as Big Deon, Amin Joseph as Jerome Yes, it’s going to be a bumpy ride going forward. Jerome opens up his heart and offers him words of regret for having failed him, Franklin responds in kind by pulling a gun on him in the middle of the busy restaurant-Tisha is looking on from her booth. There’s certainly love between these two men who for various reasons got caught up in the game but Franklin, as we knew him, is gone. They’re now enemies, opponents in this game of drugs and violence whose father/son relationship is irrevocably broken. When they meet, they’re a long way away from Season 1. This puts a sparkle in Franklin’s eye.Īs much fun as it is to see Franklin and Oso chop it up, it was the tete-a-tete between uncle and nephew in “The Sit Down” that will go down as one of the best moments of the series. Franklin is roped into a meetup with Oso (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) as the latter is desperate to identify a mysterious stranger at the behest of Teddy. The mayhem continues into episode 2, where Franklin is given multiple opportunities to make things right.
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