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Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman Preview ‘Paradise' Season 2 With Shailene Woodley as a Tour Guide at Elvis Presley's Graceland
'Paradise' fans attending San Diego Comic-Con were treated to a few surprises, including the gripping first footage from the upcoming second season featuring new star Shailene Woodley. Creator Dan Fogelman, joined by series star Sterling K. Brown, introduced the footage and revealed that it's from the Season 2 premiere. More from Variety Hulu Orders Two More Exclusive 'Family Guy' Holiday Episodes, Including Halloween Special This Fall 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Debuts Hopeful First Trailer With Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti 'American Dad' Producers on No Longer Getting to Swear as They Return to Fox; Upcoming Guest Stars Include RuPaul, Chris Pine The clip, which played exclusively for attendees in the Indigo Ballroom, is from the Season 2 premiere and introduces Woodley's character, who is a tour guide at Elvis Presley's Graceland. She's full of factoids about the King of Rock and Roll, and knows how to work in a joke — like the one about a busful of Elvis impersonators who crashed on the way to a convention: they were 'all shook up,' plus she's got a way with the horses on the property (one, named Bandit, promises to factor in the future). But, unbeknownst to her, this is the day the world as we know it is going to end. What follows is a pulse-pounding few minutes as Woodley and her co-worker, a security guard, gather as many supplies as they can — including Elvis' historic gold and silver revolver — and head for the basement of the historic home to wait out the impending disaster. Following the clip, Brown introduced Woodley, who was waiting backstage for the first half of the panel. 'I'm sweating,' she said about watching the stressful sequence. 'I did it, and I'm sweating! That was crazy!' Not much has been revealed about Woodley's role, but Fogelman was happy to praise the actor's performance. 'It's a real performance tour de force kind of thing, and I don't say that lightly,' Fogelman said. 'She hasn't seen it yet, but everyone backstage that works in this keeps coming up there. It's really special.' Before the panel, Brown visited the Comic Con Variety Studio presented by Google TV and dished about what's to come in Season 2, including Woodley's 'outstanding' performance. Watch the full interview in the video above. More to come… Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? Final Emmy Predictions: Talk Series and Scripted Variety - New Blood Looks to Tackle Late Night Staples Solve the daily Crossword
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Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman Preview ‘Paradise' Season 2 With Shailene Woodley as a Tour Guide at Elvis Presley's Graceland
'Paradise' fans attending San Diego Comic-Con were treated to a few surprises, including the gripping first footage from the upcoming second season featuring new star Shailene Woodley. Creator Dan Fogelman, joined by series star Sterling K. Brown, introduced the footage and revealed that it's from the Season 2 premiere. More from Variety Hulu Orders Two More Exclusive 'Family Guy' Holiday Episodes, Including Halloween Special This Fall 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Debuts Hopeful First Trailer With Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti 'American Dad' Producers on No Longer Getting to Swear as They Return to Fox; Upcoming Guest Stars Include RuPaul, Chris Pine The clip, which played exclusively for attendees in the Indigo Ballroom, is from the Season 2 premiere and introduces Woodley's character, who is a tour guide at Elvis Presley's Graceland. She's full of factoids about the King of Rock and Roll, and knows how to work in a joke — like the one about a busful of Elvis impersonators who crashed on the way to a convention: they were 'all shook up,' plus she's got a way with the horses on the property (one, named Bandit, promises to factor in the future). But, unbeknownst to her, this is the day the world as we know it is going to end. What follows is a pulse-pounding few minutes as Woodley and her co-worker, a security guard, gather as many supplies as they can — including Elvis' historic gold and silver revolver — and head for the basement of the historic home to wait out the impending disaster. Following the clip, Brown introduced Woodley, who was waiting backstage for the first half of the panel. 'I'm sweating,' she said about watching the stressful sequence. 'I did it, and I'm sweating! That was crazy!' Not much has been revealed about Woodley's role, but Fogelman was happy to praise the actor's performance. 'It's a real performance tour de force kind of thing, and I don't say that lightly,' Fogelman said. 'She hasn't seen it yet, but everyone backstage that works in this keeps coming up there. It's really special.' Before the panel, Brown visited the Comic Con Variety Studio presented by Google TV and dished about what's to come in Season 2, including Woodley's 'outstanding' performance. Watch the full interview in the video above. More to come… Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? Final Emmy Predictions: Talk Series and Scripted Variety - New Blood Looks to Tackle Late Night Staples
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‘Interview with the Vampire' Unveils Season 3 Behind-the-Scenes Teaser and 5 New Cast Members
The Rockstar Lestat has entered the building. The cast and crew of 'Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire' took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con's Ballroom 20 to tease the AMC+ series' hotly anticipated third season. Fans were given an exclusive sneak peek backstage in a new teaser featuring star Sam Reid delivering an electrifying stage performance as the vampire Lestat. More from Variety Sterling K. Brown and Dan Fogelman Preview 'Paradise' Season 2 With Shailene Woodley as a Tour Guide at Elvis Presley's Graceland Hulu Orders Two More Exclusive 'Family Guy' Holiday Episodes, Including Halloween Special This Fall 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Debuts Hopeful First Trailer With Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti At the scream-filled panel, four new cast members were also revealed: Jennifer Ehle ('Lioness') as Gabriella, Ella Ballentine ('Black Conflux') as Baby Jenks, Jeanine Serralles ('Apples Never Fall' as Christine Claire, Christopher Heyerdahl ('Under the Banner of Heaven') as Marius and Damien Atkins ('Slings & Arrows') as Magnus. It was also confirmed that fan-favorites Delainey Hayles and Assad Zaman will return to the series. The crew unveiled three minutes of footage from the new season, including a tense conversation between Louis and Daniel concerning the now-published book, a boardroom confrontation between Louis and Lestat, and of course, lots of blood. The panel also shed light on the new series 'Anne Rice's Talamasca,' including its release date of Oct. 26. Eric Bogosian, who portrays investigative journalist and author of 'Interview with a Vampire' Daniel Molloy, made a surprise reveal that he will reprise his role, guest starring as a crossover character in the new show. Screams and cheers echoed throughout the ballroom as his character appeared in screen in the brand new teaser trailer. 'Daniel has dealt with the Talamasca before,' Bogosian told the crowd. 'The Talamasca has been living on the edges of Daniel Malloy's consciousness, and now he's found out that the Talamasca is pulling him in deeper into their world.' The crew behind 'Interview with the Vampire,' including cast members Reid, Bogosian and Jacob Anderson, plus executive producer Mark Johnson and showrunner/executive producer Rolin Jones, stopped by the Comic-Con Variety Studio presented by Google TV to tease more details of the season. Assuaging fan fears that this season's POV shift towards Lestat could mean less Louis, Anderson shared, 'I can say that Louis is not hugely pleased with the book's existence, if that is a good tease. I'm here! I'm here.' 'No one should worry at all. There's way more Louis in our show than there is in the book,' Jones added. Reid, who learned the music for the rockstar Lestat before seeing the scripts for Season 3, also spoke to his experience in combining the two puzzle pieces to form a complete picture of his character's journey. 'It was deeply satisfying actually, because the songs are incredible pieces alone, but there's also a show that we shoot, and it's got story. There are scenes that exist within the performances, within the actual songs themselves. Layering Rolin's work on top of [composer Daniel Hart's] work is quite challenging. They're very different, but they both have a singular vision. Sometimes I feel like I get caught up in the middle of the whirlwind of the two of them, but I think that works perfectly for a start. He's all chaos, all the time.' Google TV is the presenting sponsor of the Comic-Con Variety Studio. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? Final Emmy Predictions: Talk Series and Scripted Variety - New Blood Looks to Tackle Late Night Staples
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3 days ago
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Sterling K. Brown Teases 'A Collision' Between The Outside World & The Bunker In Season 2 Of Hulu's ‘Paradise'
Sterling K. Brown couldn't feel more excited about how things are shaping up on Season 2 of his hit Hulu series Paradise. In a recent conversation with Deadline, the actor teased that principal photography on Season 2 of Dan Fogelman's political thriller is nearly done — and his thoughts so far include a lot of very gracious adverbs. More from Deadline 'Next Gen NYC' Goes Viral With Bravo's Most-Watched Series Premiere Of All Time In MP35 Sarah Michelle Gellar Teases Table Read For 'Buffy' Reboot Pilot Script 'Untamed' Rises To No. 1 On Netflix TV Charts After Debut Weekend As Audiences Also Revisit Amy Bradley Missing Persons Case 'We're block shooting Episodes 7 and 8 with Hanelle M. Culpepper [directing] right now. Very excited with what we have shot thus far,' Brown said during a chat about his other Hulu series, set to premiere Wednesday, Washington Black. 'We had a screening of Episode 1 for our crew, and we were all very, very, very, very, very happy. We'll have a screening of Episode 2 next week, because Dan likes to show people the fruits of their labor as close to real time as possible, and it sort of inspires people to make it through the finish line.' He can't say much yet about what to expect from Season 2, now that his character Xavier has set out to find his wife. He'd believed her to be dead due to a horrific nuclear attack that was expected to hit the U.S. in the wake of a natural disaster that wiped out most of the planet. However, he did say that his new Season 2 co-star Shailene Woodley 'is extraordinary.' 'She'll turn some heads with her performance,' he assured. While vague, it's some of the first details we've gotten about Woodley's involvement with the series since Deadline broke the casting news in March. Brown also gave a shoutout to Julianne Nicholson, who was recently Emmy nominated for her role as the conniving billionaire Sinatra. He says 'she's got some gorgeous things to do this year, because she's a gorgeous actor, and I would be doing a disservice to her if I didn't give her gorgeous things to do any and every time she's on screen.' Audiences can also expect more details on Nicole Brydon Bloom's Jane, whose backstory will unfold in Season 2, Brown says. On that note, Brown adds, even though Xavier has left the bunker doesn't mean viewers will leave it behind completely in the episodes to come. Instead, he says, the season will chronicle both the aftermath in the bunker as well as the outside world. 'The outside of the bunker gets explored, as well as what continues to happen inside the bunker with Xavier's absence,' he assured. 'There is a collision when the two worlds meet like: What has life been like outside? How has life changed inside? When those two worlds come into contact with one another, what kind of shamrocks and shenanigans can we get up to?' The only thing that could make Season 2 of Paradise even better? His Washington Black co-star Ernest Kingsley Jr. joining him on screen again. Brown teased that he plans to petition Fogelman to give Kingsley a small role when he visits set soon to see a few of the final days of filming. 'The guy's gonna be in full period costume,' Brown joked. A premiere date for Season 2 of Paradise has not been revealed. Brown and Fogelman recently gave a few more insights into the upcoming installment while speaking with Deadline's Awardsline, which you can read here. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More Everything We Know About 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' Solve the daily Crossword
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Shailene Woodley shocks Comic-Con crowd in surprise first appearance with 'Paradise 'cast
EW exclusively broke the news of Woodley's casting in the apocalyptic Hulu thriller, which also stars Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden. Paradise isn't ready for Annie. The crowd at Saturday's San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel for the new Hulu apocalyptic political thriller Paradise broke into uproarious cheers when creator Dan Fogelman and star/executive producer Sterling K. Brown welcomed a surprise guest onto the stage. Shailene Woodley, making her first return to Comic-Con in nearly a decade, strode in to a proper hero's welcome, embracing her costar and showrunner for the first time since her season 2 casting was exclusively announced by Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday. EW Editorial Director Gerrad Hall, who served as the panel's moderator, had just introduced a never-before-seen preview clip of the first episode of Paradise's upcoming second season. Titled "Graceland" and focused exclusively on Woodley's Annie, the episode flashes back to the moments before the extinction-level cataclysm that drove the characters played by Brown, James Marsden, and Julianne Nicholson underground and into the city-sized "Paradise" bunker. Fogelman explained that Woodley "'just saw" the "Graceland" clip "for the first time. She hadn't seen it yet." Woodley appeared overwhelmed her own character's predicament, saying, "I'm sweating! I did it and I'm sweating! That was crazy!" Woodley shared that it's "really exciting to be back" at Comic-Con. "It's been a long time. It's almost been a decade. Comic-Con still going strong!" The 33-year-old Big Little Lies star was a centerpiece of the Comic-Con schedule in the mid-2010s, when she was anchoring the Divergent film franchise. Her last appearance at the annual celebration of all things entertainment and fan culture came in 2016, when she traveled to San Diego to promote the biopic Snowden with costar Joseph Gordon Levitt, director Oliver Stone, and the whistleblower himself, who appeared via Zoom. The first few minutes of the episode show Woodley's Annie working as a tour guide at the famed Memphis home of Elvis Presley when disaster strikes. Phones start pinging with alarming news alerts, lights start flickering, and panic strikes. Annie and her coworker gather what supplies they can quickly grab and hole up in a secure bunker, hoping to weather an unfathomably large wall of advancing clouds and crashing rush of water. "The first episode introduces this new character that Shai plays. It's hard to talk about without giving away too much, but it is a real tour de force," Fogelman said. "A performance tour de force, and I don't say that lightly. She hasn't seen it yet but everyone backstage is already coming up to her and telling her." Woodley revealed she was "such a big fan" of the show's first season, and after a great introductory call with Fogelman, was delighted as she was shocked to learn that she hadn't only a landed a role in the follow-up season, but that she'd need to "travel in three days and you start filming in five or seven. It was a really fast turnaround." Paradise's stars and creator kept mum about what becomes of Annie following the disaster, but with Brown's Xavier Collins ending season 1 with a journey to exit the bunker and emerge topside for the first time since mankind as he once knew it was wiped out, there's high potential he may eventually run across Annie. "They eventually will meet," Fogelman confirmed. "But Shai's character lived in the world before, and so, I'm not going to say which characters will interact with her in the world, but eventually at some point, Sterling and her... we have filmed that. They've done scenes together."Brown told EW on Tuesday that fans can expect to "see how people have been surviving that didn't have the means and the planning that the people inside the bunker did" in season 2. "They've made a way. It doesn't look as organized, obviously, but it is a way. We meet people who are benign. We meet people who are nefarious." He also joined Fogelman in the chorus of praise for Woodley, remarking, "I made a friend, that's really the biggest thing. It's always great when you hire wonderful people that are good at what they do, but when you actually make a friend that's even cooler. She's sweet, honest, open, ready to play, and very professional. I expected all of those things of her. But to have met her and to have played with her in the sandbox, it was everything and more. She's outstanding." Check out more of . Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly Solve the daily Crossword
