COLLIDER: Anson Mount Talks HELL ON WHEELS Season 2, the Best Part of the Job, Walking the Line Between Hero and Villain and More
by Christina Radish
August 19th, 2012
The second season of Hell on Wheels continues its epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), a former Confederate soldier, and his dramatic journey West, as he struggles to leave his past behind. After a plot-based first season, Season 2 is focusing much more on the characters, their histories and their ambitions, where they come from and what makes them tick. The show also stars Common, Colm Meaney, Dominique McElligott and Christopher Heyerdahl.
During this recent exclusive interview with Collider, actor Anson Mount talked about how Hell on Wheels is really a show about ambition and where those ambitions come from, that his character starts in a more savage place this season, how the best part of the job is getting to be on a horse, on an almost daily basis, that Cullen Bohannon has both a hero and a villain in him, how he’s never had so much freedom, in film or television, where the relationships will be progressing this season, and what it’s been like to have such great directors on the show. He also talked about how he came to be in the ABC pilot for the mid-season drama series Red Widow, from Melissa Rosenberg (writer of The Twilight Saga franchise), about one woman’s (Radha Mitchell) dangerous journey into the world of organized crime, all in the name of keeping her family safe...
Anson Mount and Dominique McElligott
... Collider: Where are things headed with The Swede’s (Christopher Heyerdahl) obsession with Cullen?
MOUNT: "Oh, man, wait until you see! You haven’t seen nothing yet! Chris Heyerdahl really turns it on this year, and that character goes to some really interesting places. What I really like about what they’re doing with that character this season is that, from the beginning, he has this quality of being the devil on the shoulder. He does that for several characters this season, including eventually Cullen. He’s almost like the bad side of someone’s conscious. You see him influencing people, in certain ways, because he is so emotionally intelligent. And then, he, himself, starts to burst out of that guise and become his own evolving monster. Towards the end of the season, he’s becoming just such an interesting nemesis. I love where they started him out this season, being the muckraker of Hell on Wheels. It really puts him in a place where he has to fight and claw his way back to the top..."
Hell on Wheels airs Sunday at 9/8C on AMC.
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