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We keep telling Paramount+, were here, we would love to do more, says Robert.
PerhapsEvilcant be so easily defeated.
maybe, possibly, the Anti-Christ.
Up until now, we thought he was fine becauseSheryl got him baptized.
What can you say about that?Robert King:Hes not fine.
TheresthisNew Yorkerarticleabout people who see demonic faces.
So much of the show is about whats in the eye of the beholder.
Everythings pleasant there in Rome.
The kids are in these beautiful outfits.
It all seems happy and sweet, and maybe there is even a future for Kristen and David.
Unlike, I would imagine, the average Anti-Christ, this one has a truly loving mother.
How much can that help?
That question alone opens up so many storytelling possibilities.
it’s possible for you to put in parentheses before that: firmly.
Do you see it being a movie later, or RK:I just dont know.
What we enjoyed was all the relationships and characters.
What we wanted was not to kill them off and put a period on the end of a sentence.
It was an ellipsis of what could happen.
Theres a way to do it as a series.
Theres a way to do it as a movie.
But there is a way to make it work.
We were going to go down that route.
David isnt sure how much he trusts the Vatican security.
We were going to go a little longer with the court case against Leland.
You still got a lot of those elements in there, just RK:We just shrunk it down.
Hes not supposed to be the same character, right?
Because the name is different.MK: Yeah, totally different.
Was it funny to you?
I gasped and then I laughed.MK:Yeah, its meant to be funny, too.
I wasnt expecting Richard Kind to do that.MK:And he didnt expect it.
He got the first episode and Why are they wanting me for this?
I dont do anything.
Then he got the second episode: Oh, I get it.
Youre always looking for that sweet spot, the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down.
Im also fascinated by Pope Francis because hes kind of a radical administrator.
The one thing he required of his cardinals is that they hear confessions.
But the assessor program is the workaday problems.
Its the way you see whats happening with people where they live.
Think of the people you helped on an individual basis.
Even right to the very end onEvil, youre not sure where it stands.
The scandals were always there, but now theyre exposed.
Where does the church go from here?
Evilalso feels like a cautionary tale about technology.
You start in the pilot with David saying evils no longer isolated because of social media.
What separates evil now from the time of Dante or after World War II?
There are probably fewer deaths in the world.
That was always fun to us.
The show makes the demons part of our world.
But are the demons part of our world because of something psychological?
Or is something technological allowing demons to be in our world metaphorically now?
It wouldve been relevant under any administration.
Its not as though evil is only around for certain parties.
RK:Its constantly about us being on screens.
Its a littleBlack Mirrorin that sense.
The added element is the exploitation of innocence.
Kristen is trying to keep them innocent in a world that doesnt want to allow them to be.
All four of them are real liars, by the way.
As soon as Kristen sits them down: Dont talk to Leland.
And theyre immediately onBumblebee Valleywith Leland.
In the editing room, we cut that very tight.
It was very hard to shoot those things.
The prop department gathered all the photos from those episodes and then we wanted to see them burn.
I think we even got all the guest stars we wanted.
The nun Fenna, for example.
We got her in there, which was very important to us.
But then it was weird: Well, why isnt Kristen here?
So we asked Katja to stay late that night so we could shoot it.
It did feel like there was always this attraction between Kristen and Fenna.
Attraction in the modern world means sexual, but I dont think you have to go there.
It felt like that was important.
Maybe we were nostalgic for that episode.
The Doppel app is a big running thread in these last episodes.
That is Asif with his real wife and his real son.
They had a lot of fun doing that.
Then they become mixed in with the thoughts of the writers room.
You start to build cases that hide that premise.
Everybody finds a way to play off the premise.
MK:And their own obsessions.
MK:I do not feel that the four-episode season is in some way less than.
We did the episodes we wanted to do.
Youre collapsing down and not allowing yourself to more intuitively explore the subjects.
When you were doing 22 episodes a year, you could create whole universes.
And then knowing you are going to have more seasons, you could play.
I am a little worried theres like,No, no, dont play.
Focus, focus, focus.
On a lot of shows, a movement like the 60 would have been defeated in the finale.
Good is very hard work, and evil finds easy ways to slip into peoples minds.
Then you open it up and it says, you.
SinceEvilshowed up on Netflix, it seems like more and more people are discovering it.
Does the great increase in viewership change the calculus for somebody buying the next season?
Thats a great question for a top executive at one of these platforms.
We keep telling Paramount+, were here, we would love to do more.
The actors would love to do more, and we think these are actors you should hold onto.
Not only that, it was a very good crew.
Whats never mentioned enough by showrunners is how important the crew is to the collaborative process.
Whenever you do a good movie, everybody goes their own way when its over.
With a series, you become much more of a traveling family.
A lot of that was devised on the set.
I cant tell you how much were going to miss this.
