Corey Stoll Promises Full-On Vampire Apocalypse in The Strain Season 2
John Squires
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This weekend marks the return of FX’s fun vampire series “The Strain,” and though the show’s first season centered on the early days of the vampire apocalypse, Season 2 looks to be an all-out war between the humans and the blood-suckers. In fact, star Corey Stoll promises it will be!
In an interview with Crave Online, the actor who plays Dr. Ephraim Goodweather teased the season to come, indicating that we’re in for a whole lot of chaos this year.
“Almost through the whole first season there was this sense of this secret infection or conspiracy happening below the surface that most New Yorkers are only barely aware of,” noted Stoll. “Our team is seeing it face-to-face as they chase down this strain, but it hasn’t taken over the whole city. And from the get-go this season, New York is a war zone and there’s no denying The Strain has lept from this containable little outbreak to a full-on epidemic.”
“And society is already showing signs of breaking down a little bit and the skepticism that my character clung onto for most of the first season is really starting to slip away,” he continued. “I’m taking it as a given that there are vampires, and there’s this powerful creature called The Master who can control them.”
“In terms of scale, there’s just huge amounts of infected. And we’re getting better as fighters, so those fight scenes are becoming a little bit less clumsy. You see signs of this ragtag group becoming great vampire slayers. And there are other variations of fighters, which I’m not a part of. We get a lot of the backstory on a number of the characters, so it gives this incredible sense of scale where we can be in ancient Rome or in 1950s Vienna.”
“The Strain” premieres on Sunday, July 12th, at 10pm on FX. The battle has begun, and evil is spreading. Fight or die!
If you’ll be at the San Diego Comic-Con, don’t miss the FX Fearless Arena located between the Hilton Bayfront Hotel and the Convention Center, where “The Strain” will have a BIG presence along with “American Horror Story: Hotel.” “The Strain” panel takes place in Hall H on Sunday, July 12th, between 3:00 and 4:30 pm.
“The Strain” Episode 2.01 – “BK, NY” – Season 2 Premiere (airs 7/12/15)
Eph and Nora work on a biological weapon to kill the strigoi, and Setrakian risks the lives of the entire group to find information about a closely guarded secret text. The Master begins the next phase of his own plan, by creating a terrifying new breed of creature and placing them under the control of Kelly. Teleplay by Carlton Cuse & Chuck Hogan; directed by Gregory Hoblit.
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