Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal On Season 3

Maggie Siff Talks About Season 3

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

Tara also seems to get the strength to tell Jax that she’s not going to accept him telling her to go. Does she continue to show that strength throughout the season?

Maggie: I think so, yeah. What I’ve been playing with, and what Kurt’s been writing, is that she has a lot more conviction and certainty about her place in the world there. Her reactions to things are more visceral and immediate. There’s an emotional intensity to the character that had a control around it for the first two seasons, but that’s also fear-based. In this season, there’s a little bit less control over these knee-jerk reactions that she’s having to things. That’s strong, but it’s also more like these people who don’t censor what they say or check their violent impulses. In a way, she’s letting herself revert to something she’s probably been before, in her past, and that more resembles the world around her.

How did you see Tara in Season 1 when you first started playing her, as compared to how you see her now?

Maggie: I’ve always admired her, as a person. I like the character and I liked her from the start. I never saw her as timid. I saw her as someone who made brave choices to leave the world that she knew and get a serious education and become a doctor. She doesn’t have family. Everything she’s done, she’s really done on her own, even coming back to Charming. I guess I’ve always been attracted to characters who are incredibly strong, intelligent and self-motivated, but who have a real soft center. Most of her life has been dictated by other needs and other desires, and I feel like she continues to be her own, strong person. I’ve always thought of her as being incredibly self-guiding

What was it like to act with Stephen King?

Maggie: It was great. He was awesome. He had the best attitude. He’s a huge fan of the show, so he was like, “I can’t believe I’m hanging out with Gemma and Tara!

What was it like to act with Stephen King?

” And, we were like, “We can’t believe we’re hanging out with Stephen King, what are you talking about?” He played a really funny, creepy guy, and he just did it so well. I feel like, of anybody, who would understand the sensibility of our world.

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Rossi Shares Advice on How to Pick Up Biker Chicks

HAVE A BADASS BIKE (AND RIDE IT).
Theo says: You gotta ride ride—you gotta be riding all the time, not like a dentist riding on Sundays. You gotta ride a lot more on a bike than you’re in a cage, a cage being a car. Don’t let her even see you have a car. The bigger your bike, the louder the pipes, the better. It can’t be some Nancy-boy, candy-ass bike. You can’t be riding up on a Vespa! [Laughs.]
 
SHOW OFF SCARS AND TATTOOS.
Theo says: Biker chicks want the bad boy. Scars show toughness, that you’ve been through it and you’re still standing. And the more tattoos the better—but tattoos that mean something, that represent who you are, not some cheesy-ass Tasmanian Devil or Woody Woodpecker you got on a two-day bender.

PUT IN WORK.
Theo says: [Customization] speaks volumes about who you are. The more you care for your bike, she’ll see you’ll care for her. Take time with the bike, she’s gonna realize you’re gonna take time with her—in the bedroom! [Laughs.]

HANDLE YOUR LIQUOR.
Theo says: You better know how to drink, and not frozen margaritas and Sex on the Beaches. You gotta drink. Bet your ass they do. Buy a couple of whiskey shots and beers and don’t get drunk under the table by her. She ain’t gonna respect you if you’re passed out in a pool of your own vomit.

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Kurt Sutter Defends his Decision to Kill Off a Character 

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** If you don’t want to know who died, stop reading now. Otherwise, read at your own risk! **

Sons Of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter has defended his decision to kill off Hale.

Hale died in the third season premiere last week when he was hit by a van.

Sutter has now told TV Guide that the storyline was originally conceived in case contract negotiations with Taylor Sheridan, who played Hale, were unsuccessful.

“Ultimately, we all creatively fell in love with Plan B, and that became the decision and we moved ahead,” he explained.

Sutter added that the death will create new opportunities for Unser (Dayton Callie), saying: “What happens when Unser actually has to be a cop? Everything he does, even his relationship with Sons, has been about protecting Charming. He really has to decide this season between Charming and the Sons.”

Source: digitalspy.com.

FX, Sons of Anarchy Team Up with the Uproar Festival

In addition, Seattle radio station KISW is giving away 10 pairs of tickets to the September 25 Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival, along with 10 pairs of passes to the Sons Of Anarchy BBQ. For details, tune in to 99.9 FM in Seattle or go to www.kisw.com.

As usual, if any of you are in attendance, we’ll be happy to receive your reports and photos

Source: antimusic.com and kisw.com.

by Tim Surette TV.com Staff Writer

Here’s some inner dialogue I had with myself while watching the season three premiere of Sons of Anarchy.

Me: “Alright! Nice to see the gang again! I remember why I liked this show so much!”
(moments later)
Me: “Okay, this is a bit slower than I remember, but it’s still good. Solid character building, I can deal with that.”
(a bit later)
Me: “Jax, seriously, stop being such a wuss.”
(even laterer)
Me: “Well this didn’t have the fireworks I was hoping for from the season premiere. Not like last season’s shocking finish to the premiere.”
(Five minutes before the end)
Me: “A good episode that sets everything up, but I’m a bit disappointed that we didn’t get the violence that we’ve come to expect fr–OH MY GOD!” [ducks under couch] “What’s going on! Is he… he… dead!? Holy crap Jax what are you doing!” [sobbing, tears. screams of "Whyyyyyy" with my arms stretched to the sky]

Yes, Sons of Anarchy delivered again, leaving viewers panting with final moments that came from nowhere. But it was the road there that gives the series the legs–or wheels, I guess–to become named one of TV’s best dramas. Is it too soon to start talking about this show in the same sentence as The Sopranos, The Shield, or even The Wire?

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Kurt Sutter talks to Kristin Dos Santos

** Some of the information could be considered spoilers so read at your own risk! **

1. Will Jax and Tara Survive? “It definitely gets pretty contentious and we get some distance between us.” So says Mr. Charlie Hunnam when asked about the obvious animosity between Jax and Tara in tonight’s premiere…and beyond. But why are things so bad, when season two marked the start of a beautiful thing between the two? “Jax blames Tara [for Abel's kidnapping] and resents that she’s not more like his mom,” Charlie tells us. “Gemma would have died herself before she let him take the child, so he does blame her and is a little resentful.” But don’t fret, because there’s still hope. Adds Charlie: “Jax always knew that that’s not who Tara was, and that’s why he loved her so much, so he blames himself a lot for putting her in that situation.” Based on what we’ve seen of season three, Jax and Tara will not have an easy go of it, but she’s fighting to stick out the bad—and deep down, so is he.

2. Baby or Bust! The name of the game this season is Find That Kid, but the search for Jax’s son, Abel, will not be an easy one. The Sons follow many a red herring as they track various leads to his whereabouts, more times than not coming up empty-handed. And according to show runner Kurt Sutter, we won’t see any resolution to this storyline until much closer to the end of the season

3. Someone Dies! It’s sad, but true. A player in the world of Sons of Anarchy is not long for season three. It’s sad and sudden…and that’s all we have to say about that.

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4. Katey Sagal: Need we say more? Katey is once again beyond incredible as Gemma Teller Morrow, and this season she’s back with a vengeance. When we first see her, Gemma’s still on the lam after being framed by “ATF bitch” Agent Stahl (Ally Walker) in last year’s finale, and the running leads her straight into the arms of her Alzheimer’s-stricken father, played to perfection by Hal Holbrook. With the addition of Gemma’s dad, Nate, we’ll see a slightly softer side of everyone’s favorite badass biker chick—but that only lasts for so long…

5. Daddy Dearest Is Back…Kinda: We’ve known about the SOA‘s deceased Teller patriarch since the beginning, but get ready for all sorts of daddy drama this season, says Charlie. “We spend a little bit of time in Ireland and a lot of information about who John Teller was comes out,” he tells us. “John gets knocked off his pedestal a little bit for Jax. He realizes he wasn’t as ethically and morally righteous as he had perceived him to be, which in a lot of ways lets Jax off the hook. Jax has been feeling that he’s falling short of honoring who his father was and he realizes that he’s actually doing a little bit better than his dad was, which is a really nice epiphany for him.” And to that, we give a big ol’ amen, because Jax is way too hard on himself!

Source: E Online.

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The MC matriarch talks to Ian Cullen.

M&C: One thing that had a lot of play in the first season, but not so much the second. Was Jax having come across his late Father’s Journal, and during the first season, and a little in the second. I’m just wondering if you could give us a little insight as to why Gemma is so conflicted about the Journal?

Katey Sagal: You’ll find out as the series goes on, and this is where I can’t talk too much because it speaks to the historical nature of the club, it speaks to what happened before we even got to where we are in season one.

So it’s all the back-story, but that journal… there’s a lot of secrets tied in with this world, and a lot of things that she’s trying to protect her son from.

She looks at her son a little bit like his father who was sort of an idealist. He felt the original vision of the Motorcycle club was to be free, but not necessarily to walk down such a dark path.

Jax’s conflict in season one was all about reconciling where they are now with this new knowledge found in his father’s journal. What the original vision for the club was. Gemma’s conflicted in how far she wants him to realize that because she knows. I think I can say this without giving away anything.

John Teller who was Jax’s father started to kind of come away from the workings of the club. Because he wanted to see it go in a different way and Gemma did not agree with that. So, she’s protecting her son from walking down that same path.

M&C: A relationship that really evolved as a result of Gemma’s rape was your onscreen friendship with Tara.  Where do you think Gemma is now with Tara?

Katey Sagal: Gemma’s very smart. In that she loves her family, her first motivation is always to protect her son, and to keep her family safe.

I think at this point in season two she realized that Tara is here to stay, and if you can’t beat them. You might as well join them. Gemma’s tact is that she will now teach Tara how to be in this life, and she’s kind of moving beyond the historical part of her relationship with Tara, which was really that Tara was Jax’s high school sweetheart, and she broke his heart. She left. She left this world.

So that’s why Gemma at the beginning was very trepidatious about letting her back in. You know it’s sort of like, “Your back!” Now in season two we start to see them bonding, plus we see that Gemma with everything she’s going through needs an ally. She needs help. She reaches out, and Tara shows up. She steps up to it. So, right there I think a woman like Gemma that it just shows, you know.

The alliances, and that’s what’s most important to Gemma is that kind of loyalty. She’s slowly starting to embrace Tara.

M&C: Do you think that Gemma is grooming Tara to maybe step up as the Matriarch at some stage to succeed her?

Katey Sagal: I don’t think she’s thinking of it like that because I don’t think Gemma has any concept about getting older [Laughs] or time marching on.

I think Gemma really likes her position, and doesn’t think in terms of handing it over to anybody, but I think she does realize how serious her son is about Tara. So she needs to learn a few things, which is why Gemma is teaching her those things.

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