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Locke & Key: Darby Stanchfield Shares Amazing Look at S02 Night Shoot
We mentioned it in an earlier post and it bears mentioning again here how because of last year's (and some of January's) COVID-related delays, a number of shows like Amazon Prime's The Boys, FX's American Horror Story, Netflix's Stranger Things, and The Umbrella Academy, and more are all getting back to work at the same time. And each of them has already started reaching out to the fans to bring them along for the ride as productions (safely) get the machinery rolling again. Now, we know we sound like a broken record when it comes to Locke & Key star Darby Stanchfield because she is truly one of those who likes to keep a connection with the fanbase (whether it was on this series or ABC's Scandal) and one of the ways she does that is by offering sometimes detailed and other times more mood-setting looks at how the work is going. Perfect example? The following look at their night shoot that has a warm glow to it (even considering the kind of things they'll be filming)- we're thinking it's the footprints in the snow that's working over our feels a bit.
During an interview from last year, co-showrunner Meredith Averill (with Carlton Cuse) detailed what she would change (and keep) if the series was assigned a second set of keys. Proudly preferring "suspense and tension" over "gory and graphic" when it comes to horror, Averill revealed that the second season would retain the first season's tone. But with the kids getting older and also more experienced with the keys and their powers, the topics, situations, and enemies they face will have to grow and deepen: "The first season, we always thought of as being the story of the kids learning that they're the new Keepers of the Keys. With season two, we want to explore what that responsibility means. What does it mean as they get closer to being 18 years old—the age when you age out of magic—what does that mean? What does that look like? We cover so much of the comics in the first season, but there's so much of the lore that we held back on and new keys we created for the show that we're excited to share."
Averill continued, "Tonally, I think we intend to keep the show the same, but we do want to deepen the characters' lives and the issues they're dealing with. The older kids are moving closer to their graduation, and while grief is something that you never fully let go of, the kids are going to be able to begin moving on because, at least for now, they know the truth of what happened to him. If you can believe it, the Locke kids are going to be dealing with things far heavier than the death of their father in season two."
Based on Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's popular comic book series, Netflix's adaptation of the horror/fantasy Locke & Key focuses on the Locke siblings – Kinsey (Emilia Jones), Tyler (Connor Jessup), and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) – who move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts with their mother Nina (Darby Stanchfield) after the gruesome murder of their father, only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Standing in their way is a devious demon who also wants the keys and will stop at nothing to attain them. The first season also starred Petrice Jones, Thomas Mitchell Barnet, Laysla De Oliveira, Kevin Alves, Asha Bromfield, Griffin Gluck, Steven Williams, Felix Mallard, Coby Bird, Sherri Saum, and Eric Graise. Aaron Ashmore and Hallea Jones have been promoted to series regulars for the second season, with Brendan Hines (The Tick)as a new series regular and Liyou Abere (The Boys) guest-starring.