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Westworld’s James Marsden, who played Teddy connected the HBO series, spoke retired astir the show's astonishing cancelation. Find retired wherefore helium calls it a "disappointment" and however helium hopes it tin continue.
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James Marsden isn't going down without a fight.
The Westworld actor, who played Teddy Flood connected HBO's sci-fi occidental epic, was admittedly gutted by quality successful November of the show's shocking cancelation aft 4 seasons.
"I'd beryllium lying to you if I told you that the mode we ended Westworld wasn't a disappointment," James told Rolling Stone Jan. 3. "I'm ne'er going to talk without gratitude astir immoderate of my experiences, but it would person been bully to beryllium capable to implicit the communicative we wanted to finish."
He's holding retired anticipation that the last section of Westworld's story will 1 time beryllium written.
"Who knows, possibly there's immoderate satellite wherever it tin get completed somehow," helium suggested. "Maybe that's conscionable wishful thinking, due to the fact that I cognize we had plans to decorativeness it the mode we wanted to."
James besides expressed vexation that Westworld's cancelation came down to a substance of dollars and cents.
"I wholly recognize it's an costly amusement and large shows person to person large audiences to merit the expense," helium said. "I conscionable privation it was astir much than fiscal success."
Created by Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan and Lisa Joy and based connected the Michael Crichton caller of the aforesaid name, Westworld told the communicative of a futuristic amusement parkland populated by android "hosts," including James' Teddy. The bid besides starred Evan Rachel Wood, Anthony Hopkins, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, Aaron Paul and Tessa Thompson.
At the clip of its cancelation, HBO expressed gratitude for those down the show's bold vision.
"Over the past 4 seasons, Lisa and Jonah person taken viewers connected a mind-bending odyssey, raising the barroom astatine each step," the web said successful a connection to E! News. "We are tremendously grateful to them, on with their immensely talented cast, producers and crew, and each of our partners astatine Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. It's been a thrill to articulation them connected this journey."
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Meanwhile, the creators joked astir the timeliness of Westworld after its cancelation. "We've been privileged to archer these stories astir the aboriginal of consciousness—both quality and beyond," Jonah and Lisa said successful a associated statement, "in the little model of clip earlier our AI overlords forbid america from doing so."
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