Good Omens followers know what it means to pine for a pair to be collectively. Season two provides extra transport 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 carried out 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 latest press day.
Sosanya agreed. “There was a type of shock once we first heard that the second sequence was taking place, an even bigger one once we realized that we’d be in it,” she mentioned. “Then there was the adjustment that you need to make if you’re not going to be enjoying the earlier characters. After which, simply delight if you discover out you’re going to be enjoying 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 report 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 individuals,” Service mentioned. “The Good Omens universe, it’s a spot the place you’ll be able to simply be—, you’re welcome, whoever you might be, nonetheless, no matter. If one thing makes you’re feeling ‘different,’ you’re not. You’re high quality. You’re welcome. That response from the followers has painted into what they needed to write down 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 believe 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 notably, they only are. It doesn’t need to be justified in any manner.”
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 really angels and demons. “They didn’t actually know notably that there are ‘sides’ to be taken, in order that they’re type of working their very own ethical compass,” Sosanya mentioned. “Following instincts, and attempting to do the perfect they will and take care of the individuals who seem like they may need assistance,” Service added.
Mentioned Sosanya, “After which, [once they do realize what’s going on], it’s not really clear which facet they might be on. They’re well-rounded characters—they may go both manner. 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 latest characters—“any likelihood to spend any time within the Good Omens universe can be an awesome day within the workplace,” Service mentioned. And so they each suppose the themes of Good Omens are necessary ones.
“In each seasons, the query of what makes an excellent individual, what makes a foul individual is prevalent. I believe rather more in season two, [also] one thing about authenticity. However numerous events appear to be looking for one thing and it is perhaps inside themselves,” Service teased.
Added Sosanya, “I additionally suppose that maybe as a theme about studying to belief one other particular person. You’ll be able to’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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