![]() There's none of this bullshit about taking it home or living the part. No, I was lucky I went to a drama school where they teach you that there's a switch and you turn that switch on and you turn it off. So we're all sitting with our fingers crossed hoping we'll get the call saying it's on like Kong, but time will tell.ĭoes that take a lot out of you during the course of shooting for the season? We're sitting squarely in the lap of the HBO gods. Are we going to get a third season? I don't know. ![]() GQ talked with Rhys about what’s next for Perry, why he loves playing dark characters so much, and if we’re getting a season three.įirst things first. If the show gets renewed, the writers have a clear runway to not only work with a new, improved Perry Mason, and more of some of the most immaculate noir vibes on TV right now. ![]() Last night’s season finale wrapped that case, but left some dangling burning questions: an anxious feeling for an underrated series skating on the bubble.īut even if we don’t get a third season, at least the ending leaves the tormented Perry in a stronger place spiritually, putting him closer to the self-assured hero lawyer you may remember from the original series. The second season of the HBO Max show pitted Perry and his trusted legal team against the wealthy elite of Los Angeles, in a racially charged murder case that put two seemingly innocent Mexican young men on the hook for killing an oil tycoon’s (dipshit) son. “It was tailor made for me, just full of piss and vinegar,” he tells GQ. So when a reboot of Perry Mason that reimagined the character as a haunted lawyer amidst a hard-boiled noir setting, he leapt at the chance. Matthew Rhys loves to play complicated characters-the Welsh actor previously thrilled TV audiences as the tortured undercover KGB agent Philip Jennings in FX’s Cold War drama The Americans.
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