WebProNews

Tag: SOA

  • Maggie Siff Talks About SOA Season Finale [Spoiler]

    Fans of the popular Sons of Anarchy witnessed the tragic death of another character during the finale for season 6. Tara’s decision not to participate in the witness protection plan ultimately influenced the events that led to her untimely death. Through a series of tragic events, Tara’s mother-in-law (who is played by Katey Sagal) attempts to fulfill a protective motherly role when she kills Tara after incorrectly assuming that her daughter-in-law had betrayed her son, Jax.

    Maggie Siff spoke with TV Guide about the process of preparing for the death of her character. “I had a lot of time to mentally prepare and to think about it and ponder what it meant for me and my life. But Tara’s always been somewhat of a tragic character. In most of her efforts to change her life or to get them to leave Charming and create a safe environment for her children, she’s mostly failed time and time again. So, the feeling of being kind of heartbroken for the character is familiar to me. There’s something almost imponderable about imagining your own death. It’s a very strange and surreal thing to contemplate. It didn’t feel real for a long time, but it got very emotional when it was supposed to.”

    Creator Kurt Sutter explained the reason why characters undergo such heartbreak, and why fans are gripped by the story. “The show is an epic tragedy and a tragic love story,” Sutter said.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEjH5X8zJOo

    Maggie Siff recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about her initial reaction to the script for this season. “My eyes sort of rolled back into my head. My first concern as an actor was how to make it believable, that she [Tara] would do this and go to these lengths. If you want to see the full bloom of Tara living in this world, it’s that she becomes Gemma [her mother-in-law] and this is the most Gemma-like she’s ever been and the most Gemma-like she’s ever behaved in terms of how intricate and how manipulative and how thought through it is. Ultimately, the difference is that she’s doing it for the good of her children, which I think is an important distinction.”

    While fans will miss seeing the talented actress, 39-year-old Siff announced in October that she is expecting her first child. Siff explained during an interview with Us Weekly, “I haven’t really announced [it] yet. I’m past the nausea so I’m feeling a lot better, a lot more energetic. We just finished shooting the season, which is good.”

    [Image Via Wikimedia Commons and Courtesy of Joella Marano]

  • Sons of Anarchy Kills Major Character

    Sons of Anarchy Kills Major Character

    Before you read on, be wary that this article contains major spoilers and plot point discussion for the FX series Sons of Anarchy. If you haven’t seen the show, or the most recent episode, I recommend you stop reading… now.

    Leading into this week, the boys of SAMCRO were prepared to end their gun-dealing relationship with the real IRA by liberating ex-president Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman) from an in-transit prison truck. Morrow was going to take over position of “supervisor of Irish gun distribution” on the West Coast.

    Well, that didn’t really go as planned. When the Sons liberated Clay, they executed IRA gun-dealer Galen O’Shea, and staged a firefight in an airport office, where a slow-paced scene showcased the emotional execution of Morrow’s character.

    EntertainmentWeekly caught up with both showrunner Kurt Sutter and Ron Perlman.

    When asked about the decision to kill Clay now, Sutter said, “Ultimately he made choices that hurt a lot of other people, that came back to hurt him. And for me, the betrayal of Gemma at the end of last season was the thing that broke him. Once she broke that connection, once she said okay, you’re too despicable for me and to the point where she betrayed him, then it really became the beginning of the end for him.”

    Sutter added, “I didn’t suddenly expect people to turn around and have compassion for this guy, though I think a lot of people were wondering, oh, yes, it’s all a plan. It’s all a play. He’s got something else up his sleeve because that’s who Clay is… He really does want to do the right thing by Gemma. And so, that by [the 10th episode] when you think okay, they’ve done everything they could to keep this guy alive and they’re going to keep him alive … when you have some sense that maybe you don’t hate Clay as much as you used to … that’s when we kill Clay.”

    Perlman likened the role to that of Claudius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a story Sutter has admitted he borrowed from. “Claudius doesn’t make it to Act 5,” Perlman said, “so I was ready for this.”

    When the interviewer asked Perlman about the Hamlet connection, he said “Anything you’re going to assume about Sons of Anarchy is pure speculation. We’ve already seen that Hamlet is the superstructure … the guy who kills the king and marries the queen and takes over the crown. The stepson who’s trying to put all this together with the help of these voices that are visiting him in the form of the manuscript.”

    “When you put on that crown, some sh– happens and it ain’t pretty and it ain’t ordered and it almost controls you,” Perlman said of Jax’s ascension. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the seventh season is going to really shine a light on the price that Jax Teller plays, simply because he’s risen to this level of power.”

    [Image via YouTube]

  • ‘Sons of Anarchy’: Robocop Joins For Sixth Ride

    Sons of Anarchy is one of those television shows you just can’t look away from. Writer, producer, and creator Kurt Sutter was a writer for FX’s hit cop drama The Shield, which effectively cleaned house each year at the Emmy’s, so it was hardly surprising when the retiring of Michael Chiklis’ anti-cop Vic Mackey brought a new series of twisted characters to traverse our televisions in search of fortune and glory. Sons has certainly done that over the years, and while the season five ratings were strong enough in the target demographic, season six is shaping up to knock it out of the park.

    Peter Weller, known for his iconic voice and portrayal of Robocop in the late ’80s, will be joining the fray as a former cop who works at the Stockton port, the Hollywood Reporter says. Already a featured director of several episodes in the series as well as episodes of Monk and Hawaii Five-O, Weller makes the opposite journey of Adam Arkin, who joined the cast as a white supremacist character and eventually became a featured director.

    AMENDED: As to where the plot of the new season might take the enigmatic motorcycle gang, we can expect the story to center around Jax solidifying political control within the club for his presidency, Tara’s experiences after being imprisoned by the police for Gemma’s manipulation, the expected fallback from Bobby’s resignation as vice-president, and possibly a final end to Clay Morrow. The recently released season six promo video seem to hint at an excessively violent season, and Sutter himself has been quoted as saying upcoming episodes will be some of the “most violent” in the history of the show, a bold claim indeed.

    If you’re interested in watching the latest episode of Sons of Anarchy as soon as it airs, season six will premiere on September 10 at 10 P.M. EST on FX.

  • SOA’s Katey Sagal Has Little-Known Talent

    SOA’s Katey Sagal Has Little-Known Talent

    The insanely popular and bloody FX show “Sons Of Anarchy” starts back up tonight, and while hardcore fans probably know most of what there is to know about the cast, many might not realize a few things about one of the show’s more badass characters: Gemma, played by Katey Sagal. Namely, she’s an amazing singer.

    In fact, several of her songs (mostly covers) have been featured in episodes of the show, and not just because she’s married to the executive producer and writer, Kurt Sutter (who also plays Otto, the long-suffering one-eyed inmate); the lady has legit singing chops. Check out her stuff below and tune in to the new season tonight on FX.