Unlocking the Characters with Cast Members of Netflix’s ‘Locke & Key’

A while back, we here at BNP got a chance to talk with the folks who help forged the magic of Locke & Key. There are no spoilers for season 2 (which you can watch right now and read our review here), so feel free to take a read as we attempted to use the Head Key to learn a little more about the series. Actors: Connor Jessup & Darby Stanchfield BNP: At the start of Season 2 of Locke & Key, all of your characters are in a much better place, given everything that happened in Season 1, and there’s sort of a confidence about it, as we were talking about with the producers beforehand. Did that confidence carry over your portrayal of the characters as well? Connor Jessup: I think so. I think so much of Season 1 was about either… It was about, on the plot side, it was about discovering what the hell these keys were, the fact that they even existed, what they did. There was a lot of like, “What is going on?” And emotionally, there was a similar dynamic, it’s like we were really all in the fallout of Rendell’s murder. And now in Season 2, time has passed, we’ve settled in Matheson, we’ve settled into our various relationships, and the family dynamic is better, and we are comfortable with these keys. We know what they are, we know what they do. We feel like we can start having fun with them, and that confidence is the note that Season 2 starts on. So, I think that yeah, the confidence that we felt behind the scenes, that we knew what show we were making, that we kne…