Good Omens followers know what it means to pine for a couple to be together. Season two provides extra delivery to the combo with Nina (Nina Sosanya) and Maggie (Maggie Service), shopkeeper neighbors of bookselling angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen). If their names and faces are acquainted, that’s since you’ve seen them collectively earlier than: as Satanic nuns in Good Omens season one.
(This interview was performed previous to the beginning of the SAG-AFTRA strike.)
This time round, in fact, they’re utterly totally different characters who simply occurred to be named after the actors who play them. They have been “past thrilled” to return to Good Omens, Service informed io9 at a current press day.
Sosanya agreed. “There was a type of shock after we first heard that the second collection was taking place, an even bigger one after we realized that we’d be in it,” she stated. “Then there was the adjustment that it’s a must to make if you’re not going to be taking part in the earlier characters. After which, simply delight if you discover out you’re going to be taking part in one thing new and named after our personal selves, which is unprecedented, actually.”
With out moving into plot spoilers, we will say that Good Omens season two acknowledges the queer subtext that followers learn into Aziraphale and Crowley (David Tennant) in season one, and brings it out into the open with these new characters. Maggie, who runs a file store, has an enormous crush on Nina, who runs a espresso store and is sadly already partnered up. They’re lesbians, however Good Omens doesn’t make an enormous deal out of that reality; that’s simply who these characters occur to be.
“Season one [really] related with folks,” Service stated. “The Good Omens universe, it’s a spot the place you may simply be—you understand, you’re welcome, whoever you might be, nevertheless, no matter. If one thing makes you’re feeling ‘different,’ you’re not. You’re superb. You’re welcome. That response from the followers has painted into what they wished to put in writing in season two, to simply completely make that message greater than 100% clear and inform some extra tales. It’s not an enormous deal [that they’re gay] it’s simply who they’re.”
Added Sosanya, “I feel that’s what Neil does with lots of his writing and with lots of the graphic novels as properly. These characters, they’re not defined significantly, they simply are. It doesn’t need to be justified in any approach.”
Maggie and Nina are distinctive in Good Omens season two as a result of they’re each mortals—even when they don’t understand at first that they’re surrounded by characters who’re truly angels and demons. “They didn’t actually know significantly that there are ‘sides’ to be taken, in order that they’re type of working their very own ethical compass,” Sosanya stated. “Following instincts, and making an attempt to do the perfect they’ll and take care of the individuals who appear to be they may need assistance,” Service added.
Mentioned Sosanya, “After which, [once they do realize what’s going on], it’s not truly clear which aspect they might be on. They’re well-rounded characters—they may go both approach. They’re simply type of experiencing it within the second and seeing what happens as a result of nothing is because it appears.”
Each actors agreed they’d like to return for a hypothetical Good Omens season three, both as Nina and Maggie once more or as one other set of recent characters—“any likelihood to spend any time within the Good Omens universe can be a fantastic day within the workplace,” Service stated. And so they each assume the themes of Good Omens are necessary ones.
“In each seasons, the query of what makes a very good individual, what makes a foul individual is prevalent. I feel far more in season two, [also] one thing about authenticity. However plenty of events appear to be trying to find one thing and it could be inside themselves,” Service teased.
Added Sosanya, “I additionally assume that maybe as a theme about studying to belief one other particular person. You possibly can’t function as an island. No angel is an island, and no demon is an island.”
Good Omens season three arrives July 28 on Prime Video.
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