Ron Perlman who plays Clarence “Clay” Morrow on the series, told us that, like most hit shows, it all starts with the writing:

“Yeah, I think it all starts with the writing. I think (series creator) Kurt Sutter always set out to depict a world that is kind of exotic, because I don’t ever think it’s been explored in such a multi-dimensional and nuanced way. I don’t think it’s ever been explored as, essentially, what is a family drama, where the motorcycle club aspect of it are the accessories and accouterments. They define the world, but they are not the world. The world is the interaction between this alternate family, off the grid, trying to keep their heads above water and trying to stay autonomous and independent and away from the things they’re rejecting in the rest of society.”

Charlie Hunnam discusses “Jax” Teller, the character that is at the center of the main conflict this season:

“There’s a lot of resolution for Jax. It’s really the season of the baby, I’ve got to go find my baby and that takes a little bit of time to do. I think for me, playing Jax is a really interesting thing. I’ve always been really determined and clear in my desire and goal to form the club and the ideals that I see for it. I think I kind of realized that it is the way it is for a reason. I don’t deal with the missing baby very well and, as a byproduct of that, we really explore the love that these guys have for each other, which I think is really the key to the motorcycle club, the brotherhood and that they love each other. It’s been a lot of fun.”

Kim Coates plays the always colorful Alex “Tig” Trager and he told us on the red carpet that Season 3 will see Tig back to his normal self: 

“Tig still has issues. He’s probably going to have issues until this thing is over, but he really gets his mojo back this year. I’m having a lot of fun playing this stuff this year. He kind of gets naked, he kind of gets drunk, he kind of gets sober, he kind of gets tough, he kind of pulls triggers, the knife is coming out easier. He’s getting his mojo back. He really is. It’s been a lot of fun for me this year.”

Read the full interview here.

HitFix’s Alan Sepinwall sat down with Kurt Sutter. Here is a preview of the interview.

It’s been awhile since we’ve seen the whole group in action and it’s weird how with each passing year all of you begin to adopt more and more sort of SAMCRO character traits. (On “The Shield”), did you ever get the sense the Chiklis was starting to think he was a little too Vic Mackey?

Well it was very interesting. The strike team, they just ultimately bonded over the years, and I always talk about when it just got weird when Kenny (Johnson) wasn’t around anymore. They didn’t quite know what to do anymore. I think it’s hard being creative people and to not have that stuff sort of influence you. And it does. It trickles down. You spend so much time with these people that they do become in a lot of ways a surrogate family. And it’s happened with our guys, you know? And they do. They give each other shit and they are truly like a club. The interesting thing is Charlie is a street kid from Newcastle, and he’s like the closest thing we have on-set to being a real outlaw. Him and Tommy. Tommy grew up in Glasgow in the fucking ghettos. Those (scars) on his face? That’s all real shit. So, those two guys understand this life, you know what I mean? So for them, I don’t think it’s the show leading into their lives as much as their lives leading into the show.

Now, the jackpot that Gemma gets into at the end of last season, some of it is Stahl framing her, but she does murder someone right in front of Stahl. When you wrote that scene, did you already have in your head like this is how we will ultimately get out of it?

I knew that we would have to. I really had no idea what we were going to do, though. I wrote myself into a bit of a corner, but because of who Stahl is and because of the extreme nature of that relationship and her obsessive need to succeed which she’s really shown us, that will ultimately be something that we use to help unravel that. And we’ll find out early on that they found a gun with Polly, so that could potentially be self-defense, but that the other one was clearly murder, you know? So we started setting up potentially what some of the moves might be but it’ll ultimately be about Stahl that helps us sort of get Gemma out of that box.

See the full interview here.

Season 2 DVD is available as of today, August 31st. Happy shopping!

Sources: Yahoo, Zimbio and GettyImages.

Actors Charlie Hunnam and Katey Segal arrive at the “Sons of Anarchy” season premiere on Monday, August 30th, 2010.

Ryan Hurst

Actors Tommy Flanagan and Jamie McShane

Mark Boone

Series creator Kurt Sutter and Actor Katey Sagal

Actors Theo Rossi and Sarah Jones

Kim Coates

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