Spoilers for Westworld Season 1 below!Watching Westworld can sometimes feel like being a host in the show`s titular wild west park: You`re not entirely sure where (or when) you are, and you`re powerless to do anything about it. Westworld fans don`t obsessively comb through each episode for clues to stoke their theories out of love alone; we do it out of necessity, too. It turns out some of the show`s actors feel the same way.`Every script I get I have to read three times, just understanding what`s all happening, but even then, I think I don`t really understand it,` Luke Hemsworth, who plays Westworld head of security Ashley Stubbs, told GameSpot during a group interview recently in Los Angeles. `It`s been so long. I`m always surprised, I think. I`m always like, `Oh yeah, I remember! And that leads into that, and that`s going to move that. Oh, yes!``The first episode of Westworld`s second season will air next Sunday, April 22. Without spoiling anything, it`s safe to say it picks up the story near where the first season ended. Jumping right back into this hosts-versus-humans fray after so long--Season 1 aired back in 2016--will feel like whiplash if you haven`t revisited the show recently.The last time we saw Stubbs in Season 1, he was ambushed by the Native American warrior hosts known as the Ghost Nation. We`ve known for some time that Stubbs isn`t dead, but it`s still a bit jarring seeing him in the opening scenes of Sunday`s Season 2 premiere. Hemsworth wouldn`t say how his character survived, but he did tease that Stubbs is `pretty stoic. He`s resilient. He finds a way.`Angela Sarafyan, who plays the host Clementine, said we`re going to see new sides of her character in Westworld Season 2. Clem was out of the loop for most of Season 1, but began to gain more agency by the end. In the final episode, she shot the Man in Black (AKA old William) in the arm as the hosts rebelled.`You`ll get to see elements of Clementine that are a bit different,` Sarafyan said. `Y ...
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