11/9/2022 0 Comments James holden expanse![]() ![]() It has not always been pretty he’s had some really ugly turns. What’s been fun about playing him, to the best of my ability, is to portray a realistic ascent to heroism. Only through chance or fate, if you choose to believe in it, he gets pulled into this much larger world than he ever wanted or expected to be in and that he’s totally unprepared for. “We you meet him originally, he’s this cocky, a bit arrogant, naïve guy who has literally run from the responsibilities of his life and found himself in the middle of fucking nowhere. “What I’ve loved so much about playing Holden is just how vast his arc is,” he says. Holden’s past has also informed his current situation, and the character’s evolution to this point has been very satisfying for Strait. There’s always the fear of, ‘Am I relying on a crazy person, and he’s just been right in the beginning?’ So going through this gate, depending on somebody that he’s really close with but doesn’t really know 100 percent where his sanity is, is going to trust and be loyal to him and back him up in every way he can.” But he doesn’t necessarily know that he believes it’s Miller in there, and he doesn’t really know exactly what’s going on. “He believes Holden to a point, in the fact that everything that he’s said so far has been true and helped us, so he believes that. “He has somebody he’s really close to, that he relies on and leans upon, talking to dead people and ghosts,” says Chatham. For Holden, that’s where we find him at the beginning of season 4.”Ĭhatham admits that this normalization of Holden’s inner voice isn’t always easy for Amos. For him as a guy, he’s settling into the extraordinary circumstances that he’s found himself in, in a much more grounded way than we’ve seen in previous years… He’s finally at a place where the people around him have given him the support he’s needed over the years to actually become the leader he needs to be and they need him to be. There’s no terror or shock or awe to what’s going on with him anymore. “He’s accepted that this is part of his existence now. “For Holden, having this ongoing relationship with this ghost in his mind has become more normalized,” says Strait. Ostensibly, Holden and the Roci will be set on their diplomatic mission by Avasarala in The Expanse season 4 premiere, but it’s Holden’s visions of Miller, speaking on behalf of the protomolecule, that drive him to go through the Ring to find out what happened to the ancient civilization that made interstellar travel possible. This season, we will get a window and a glimpse of who he is beyond the external thing that he created to show the world and protect himself.” “As they go through this season, who he is and what’s motivating and what’s driving him is starting to come to the surface. “Being back in an atmosphere and the fresh air awakening things in him that he hasn’t felt in a long time, reminding him of Earth and where he grew up, and that’s kind of awakening dormant memories from his past,” says Chatham. That being said, Amos’ impoverished past has uniquely prepared him for roughing it on an alien planet. We’re on this planet, and we’re not bathing regular. ![]() Chatham adds, “It’s also a primal journey because we’ve taken a step back in our technology. “Our beard arc tracks how far away from civilization or clippers we’ve been for all these months,” Strait explains with a smile. “Ilus is the next hall over,” Chatham informs us, referring to the distant planet on which the Rocinante crew find themselves in season 4, mediating a dispute between Belter and Earther settlers who seek to profit from the resources beyond the Ring gates.Ĭhatham and Strait are both dressed in dusty, rugged clothes with mussed hair and longer beards than we’ve seen them sport in seasons past: a clear indication that the planet of Ilus is a frontier world, brand new to humans but long dead to the protomolecule-makers. It is here that we incongruously meet with Steven Strait and Wes Chatham, who play James Holden and Amos Burton on the show, neither of whom spend any time on Mars. Behind one flat is the UN situation room on Earth where Avasarala is briefed on military operations in deep space, and around a corner is a rocky underground public space on Mars, illuminated colorfully to break up the red stone walls. Walking across the set of The Expanse can be a fairly surreal experience in that distances between planets are compressed to a few steps. ![]()
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