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No Gemstone has changed their perspective on the televangelist family quite like Skyler Gisondos Gideon.
And if he needs to drive a monster truck through a group of militiamen to protect his family?
Get out of the way of Gideons redemption.
This interview with Gisondo, conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike, has been edited and condensed.
When we meet Gideon this season, hes wearing a neck brace that limits his mobility.
It wasnt really too much of a challenge.
The costume department was great; they made this neck brace supercomfortable.
Its always fun to have those physical things to lean into and play around with.
As far as workload goes, it doesnt get much easier.
Gideons parents then force him into being Elis driver.
But then, there is a fair amount where I am driving and its just me and John Goodman.
I did get to do some fun stuff.
Theresone shotof me reversing really quickly and slamming to a stop.
They had sandbags to mark the spot, and I could see our stunt choreographer in the rearview mirror.
That was the extent of the most dangerous stuff they let me do.
Lets see the stunt double.
He would do it once and it would look so much cooler, obviously, than I did it.
What was John Goodman like as a scene partner?
John is just the kindest, mellowest, easiest-to-get-along-with dude.
Angst and pressure and always moving forward.
I feel a little weird in the performance.
Especially with John as a scene partner.
Hes such a present guy that youre able to slide into these scenes and find it with him.
If I ever come into a scene having drastically overthought the moment, it ends up going poorly.
Gideon also drives theRedeemerthis season.
Then you show up and you see the thing.
Its modified with the exhaust, its shooting flames, its 20 feet in the air.
Id never been to a monster-truck rally, and I still havent, but Im jonesin to go now.
I never actually drove theRedeemer.
Theres no way hes gonna be able to look cool doing this or pull this off.
Whenever I would get in the cab, it was always on hydraulics and not in motion.
They constructed this crazy rig to get coverage of us when were driving theRedeemer.
But they hada professional monster-truck driver.Dude was getting to do his thing.
It didnt even feel like a set; it felt like you were at this crazy militia compound.
Theres definitely moments when you forget the cameras.
Theyre using these really big techno cranes, and the cameras are really far away.
Youre pulling up to 200 hard-core militia-looking dudes, geared up, staring at you with guns.
Even though you know youre in a show, its intense.
Theres been a few moments like that.
You read it on the page like, Jesse and Gideon run out of the hospital doors.
Jesse and Gideon duck for cover.
All right, I got it.
As Gideon is driving Eli, he starts reading Elis latest definitive autobiography,In His Kingdom.
But you gotta do something for it to read on-camera to get an idea of whats happening.
You always end up feeling like a crazy person.
Nobody reads a book with this much effort.
You start doing stuff you never do, like using your finger to follow the words.
Your line delivery of fucking Montgomerys is such a switch for Gideon, whos normally so even-keeled and mild-mannered.
Those lines always cracked me up, but Gideon is never the one saying them.
I always break specifically on the daddy thing Danny says.
I can never keep a straight face when Danny says that word.
In this season, Gideons younger brother, Pontius, has a very aggressive face tattoo of the wordBlessed.
I just recently got my first tattoo.
What was your first tattoo?Its Hebrew, itsGam zeh yaavor, which means This too shall pass.
It was something I was thinking about for a long time.
And sure enough, she loved it.
God, she almost cried; she thought it was beautiful.
And she was like, You know, its not as bad as I thought it would be.
