But I know that, in the end, my job is to serve the character and the story. ( Laughs.) But on top of that, it’s this smash that families, young people love. Even if it wasn’t as beloved as it is by the public, that would all be true, and it would be hard to be going. I am torn because I love the show, and I love the people that work on it. You want to play somebody that has all these facets. So you don’t want to play anybody that’s less than that. They’re fascinating and interesting and maddening and glorious, in all these different ways. If he was being authentic - and that was always the question - well, he ends up proving it, which is really special and sweet to me because I love the human beings, man. Later, she says, “Remember when you told me you would do anything for me?” And Ward looks at her, and he says, “Anything.” It was just true in the moment. Sarah is telling Ward how much he’s hurt her, and he’s saying how sorry he is. It’s the first time they’ve seen each other since they were on the boat and the terrible fight at the end of that scene. There’s a spot early on - in fact, in one of the ads - where Ward is with Sarah. Sometimes things just work out, and a lot of it is the writers being utterly available to what’s gonna work in that moment and what’s gonna really make the audience feel something. To my mind, we landed on the one that is by far the most meaningful and the most interesting. There were different outcomes of that scene. But the scene itself came very, very late in the game. It’s hard for me to know the time because we overlapped episodes so much.
At what point did you know where his path was heading? This season ends with an emotional moment as Ward gets to redeem himself, but then we see him fall off the cliff.
It was just an interesting line to follow of, is he authentic? Is he feeling this? Is he using this to get the other gold? Why should anybody trust Ward? The answer is, they shouldn’t, but that doesn’t mean things can’t happen within him.
The other thing is, not only does the audience not really know to the end, I don’t know how soon the writers knew how it was gonna go out. Not only that, he’s walking away with these horrible memories of laying his hands on his daughter, choking her. ( Laughs.) We’re all chasing this gold, but in the end, they walk away with that, and Ward walks away with nothing. They have the family that Ward has supposedly always been fighting for, and to my mind is the real treasure of the show. And meanwhile, the Pogues have nothing - literally the shirts on their back, and they’re on a deserted island - and they have everything.
It was gratifying to get to explore that, but it also made total sense to me because, at the end of season two, Ward has everything - all the gold, the cross, he got away. But from the very beginning, they put it in the lines, and they allowed me to run wild with it, is that other side of Ward that makes people not exactly sure they hate him ( laughs) - where they might just see a human being under there. It’s been very gratifying to me because it’s not often that the bad guy gets any kind of emotional arc. How did you feel about season three and the ways in which Ward got to evolve? Charles Esten on ‘Outer Banks’ JACKSON LEE DAVIS/NETFLIX
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