{"id":78964,"date":"2015-08-25T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=78964"},"modified":"2015-08-25T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T13:35:38","slug":"the-strain-season-2-corey-stoll-on-ephs-downward-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-strain-season-2-corey-stoll-on-ephs-downward-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strain Season 2: Corey Stoll on Eph’s downward spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The events of Season 1 have taken their toll on Eph (Corey Stoll)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Coming into Season 2 of The Strain<\/strong><\/em>, Guillermo del Toro’s vampiric take on the apocalypse, things aren’t looking good for the main cast, with bloodsuckers running rampant in New York.<\/p>\n

For Dr Ephraim Goodweather (played by Ant-Man<\/strong><\/em> and House Of Cards<\/strong><\/em>‘ Corey Stoll), things are looking even bleaker. His estranged wife Kelly (Natalie Brown) numbers among the infected, which combined with Eph falling off the wagon, marks an emotional turning point for the character.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis life is no longer together, that\u2019s for sure,” says Stoll. “There\u2019s a sense going into the second season that it\u2019s no longer a secret what\u2019s happening. The authorities know about it, the world knows about it; it\u2019s more of an out-and-out battle, so for my character, that sort of scepticism that I held onto for as long as I could in the first season is pretty much gone, so I\u2019ve accepted the more supernatural aspects of the infection epidemic. <\/span><\/p>\n

“But while I\u2019m still that incredibly driven workaholic person I was in the first season, there\u2019s also a sense of letting go of some of my Hippocratic Oath and the more moralistic aspects of my personality. Alcohol has something to do with that I think, and desperation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Season 2 will be centred primarily around the events of The Fall<\/strong><\/em>, the second in del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s original trilogy. With potentially room for\u00a0another two or three seasons still to go with regards The Strain<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s overall story arc, Stoll\u00a0is more than happy to see how it turns out. \u201cA lot of what appealed to me about the show was the sense of this story, and having this book as the guide posts. It\u2019s not about creating a world and then milking it and trying to keep it going somehow, and figuring it out as we go along.\u201d<\/p>\n

Season 2 of The Strain<\/em> will air on Watch from 26 August. For more on the biggest TV series, pick up the latest issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Corey Stroll on how things have gone from bad to worse in The Strain Season 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":78967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1718,7,3,207],"tags":[2792],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Strain-Season-21.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}