{"id":8038,"date":"2022-03-20T09:06:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T09:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charmed-online.nl\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2022-03-20T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T09:06:28","slug":"charmed-bosses-on-who-kaela-is-how-bridgerton-influenced-harrys-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charmed-online.nl\/?p=8038","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Charmed\u2019 Bosses on Who Kaela Is & How \u2018Bridgerton\u2019 Influenced Harry\u2019s Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Charmed Season 4 Episode 2 \u201cYou Can\u2019t Go Home Again.\u201d]<\/p>\n

Kaela (Lucy Barrett), the newest Charmed One, may not want anything to do with Mel (Melonie Diaz) and Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) at the beginning of the latest episode, but by the end, she changes her mind.<\/p>\n

After Kaela\u2019s targeted for using magic around humans \u2014 she\u2019s still trying to gain control of her abilities \u2014 her best friend ends up nearly paying the ultimate price. But after Kaela gets a grip on her manifesting ability to save Harry (Rupert Evans) and Jordan (Jordan Donica) from a bomb and together the men save her friend\u2019s life, she decides to stick around.<\/p>\n

Showrunners Jeffrey Lieber, Joey Falco and Nicki Renna tease what\u2019s ahead.<\/p>\n

How did you want to go about bringing Kaela into the fold?<\/strong>
\nJoey Falco: Obviously we\u2019re doing something a little different this season and than the original show did, which is since Kaela\u2019s identity is such a mystery and her connection to the other two, what makes her part of the sisterhood, is such a mystery, something we\u2019ll be playing out through the whole season, it creates this really different dynamic where they have to decide, how do we all fit together? How do we work together as a team when we do not even know if we\u2019re sisters? That\u2019s the emotional story we\u2019re playing with. Mel is more welcoming [since] she\u2019s come a long way over the last four years after learning her relationship with Macy, but Maggie misses her sister so much.
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What can you say about who Kaela is and how she\u2019s connected to them?<\/strong>
\nJeffrey Lieber: We\u2019re gonna go down all the roads. There are a bunch of different possibilities, including something tied to Marisol, something tied to either of the fathers. That is the significant mystery of the first nine episodes. We will slowly unpack the possibilities and then turn them inside out, and with each dead end or with each twist, it changes the relationship between the three of them. We wanted to really do, as Joey said, something different from both the original show and from the first three seasons. They thought they had a family and they understood and now they have a new one. This is the other way around: They really need this third person to complete them, because they\u2019re coming back from tragedy. Solving this mystery is the first big step towards moving forward.<\/p>\n

Can you rule out that she\u2019s from another time or place?<\/strong>
\nLieber: We\u2019re not gonna rule anything out. That\u2019s the fun.<\/p>\n

The Tallyman and that nursery rhyme are both creepy. What can you tease about what we\u2019ll see from him and when the Charmed Ones will come face-to-face with or be more directly affected by him?<\/strong>
\nNicki Renna: One of the great things about the Tallyman is he\u2019s unlike any other villain we\u2019ve really dealt with. Not only are his tactics unusually cruel and he seems to be preying upon people in the magical world, but he\u2019s really starting to raise questions about the nature of good and bad, and good and evil. The things he\u2019s gonna do are really going to push us to the limits of not only what it means to be a hero, but also what it means to be a Charmed One and a witch and a magical person and even a person of the human world.<\/p>\n

Maggie\u2019s avoiding her grief by hunting demon. When will that backfire on her and then affect the others?<\/p>\n

Falco: Yeah, as you can probably guess it\u2019s not necessarily the most healthy coping mechanism she\u2019s using. It\u2019s gonna backfire quickly. By Episodes 3 and 4, she is gonna get a little bit of a comeuppance, and we\u2019re gonna take Maggie to a really dark emotional place. People will be shocked to see what happens to Maggie by Episode 3.<\/p>\n

Similarly, we saw Mel doing the same with her hookups. But she did choose to stay with Kaela at the end of this episode instead of go meet Hot Elf Girl. Will she be finding a better way to cope?<\/strong>
\nLieber: One of the mysteries we want to play is the interplay between Mel melting down and starting this hookup culture for herself and what happened with Ruby. One of her arcs over the course of the entire season is to clean up her serial monogamy over the first three seasons, which then runs into this promiscuousness in this season. Her real arc for the whole season is to finally come to some sort of integration between those two things and move forward. So by the end of the season, Mel really does have an interest we think is healthy and possible and forward looking, but it requires her to solve the sets of relationships she\u2019s had over the first three and a half seasons.<\/p>\n

Harry\u2019s grief is heartbreaking, and Jordan notes he hears him say Macy\u2019s name for the first time since she died. How\u2019s Harry going to be coping moving forward?<\/strong>
\nRenna: Harry\u2019s journey is really emotional and heartbreaking, but ultimately, he\u2019s gonna do the work on himself to come to a better place by the end. The journey is really what\u2019s gonna be so compelling for him. We\u2019re really pushing each of our characters to go to places we\u2019ve never seen them go and things you really wouldn\u2019t expect, reactions you wouldn\u2019t really expect them to have because they\u2019re really facing their own demons and they\u2019re figuring out how to move through their trauma and their grief, which comes up in all different ways. Sometimes it\u2019s two steps forward, and three steps back. Harry\u2019s going to specifically end up going down a different path I don\u2019t think anyone would ever expect him to go and they\u2019ll be pretty surprised what he does, the things he\u2019s going to give up and the things he\u2019s going to take on in order to find his purpose.<\/p>\n

Lieber: Between seasons, we said to Rupert, \u201cHey, grow a beard,\u201d \u2019cause we thought we\u2019ll have him have a beard [to represent] his grief, and then we\u2019ll shave it off at the end of the first episode. Then two things happened. One, he was really sexy in his beard, and so we decided not to shave it off. And two, the beard became a symbol of his being overwhelmed by grief and then moving on from it. So there\u2019s a very specific moment in the season \u2014 he doesn\u2019t move on ever, you don\u2019t ever move on from losing somebody you love \u2014 where he goes from the backward-looking beard Harry to the forward-looking shaven Harry. But we will admit he looks so good with the beard that we sort of did it reluctantly.<\/p>\n

Falco: Actually Rupert came to us because he did a little stint on Bridgerton, and he called us and said, \u201cI had to grow all this crazy facial hair for Bridgerton, is there anything we can do with that?\u201d And so we decided to work that into his character and his arc.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s going on with Jordan\u2019s whitelighter powers?<\/strong>
\nFalco: Because he didn\u2019t become a whitelighter the old fashioned way, he didn\u2019t go through the traditional process, his powers aren\u2019t quite the same. As you learn in 402, he can\u2019t orb. He\u2019s just a healer which means he\u2019s not really a whitelighter, but then in that case, what is he, and how does he find his place in the magical universe? That\u2019s his journey for this season: \u201cI didn\u2019t become a whitelighter the old fashioned way, that outdated subservient way like Harry. And so I have freedom in the way he didn\u2019t, I\u2019m not beholden to the elders. I\u2019m not beholden to this old system. And so how do I use these powers in a way that\u2019s gonna make a difference? And what does it say about who I am as a person?\u201d<\/p>\n

How much will Harry and Jordan working together continue?<\/strong>
\nRenna: A lot. We actually were really intentional about putting those two guys together. They\u2019re just magic together onscreen and everybody loves them. But we also wanted to embrace, in the same way our girls have a sisterhood, they really have a brotherhood and we wanted to really explore what that meant for different sides of male friendship, a healthy male friendship, where they show up for each other. They get in arguments, they have conflict, they forgive, they\u2019re drawn apart. We send them on a really cool, kind of beautiful, inspiring journey, of these two men and their friendship.<\/p>\n

Jordan talked about relishing every second he has with Maggie if he didn\u2019t die. What\u2019s coming up with them?<\/strong>
\nLieber: It\u2019s a rollercoaster ride, to say the least. This came out of watching the actors and their chemistry. It\u2019s been incredibly fun to watch what is a growing, lurching, changing, forward, backward relationship between the two of them that feels a little bit like a real relationship. A lot of times TV reduces relationships to on or off. We realized there\u2019s some real value in watching relationships that are neither on or off. They spend a lot of the season trying to figure out how to make it work in the shadow of what\u2019s happened, specifically because they get together between two seasons, which means they get together in the shadow of Macy\u2019s death. They have to figure out how to make that relationship work outside that shadow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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