Spoiler alert: Details are part of season 3 of “Gangs of London”.
After saying goodbye to some of his best known characters of season 3, the “Gangs of London” team is ready for more.
“The challenge is the same challenge that we have every season: continue to offer more surprises for the public, and we always have a discomfort of wealth in the distribution, obviously, with those who have survived,” said the producer of laughter Hugh Warren.
“We have great things in mind, because we do not want to disappoint people. I think it is really important for the public to understand that killing these main characters, there is no predict what is going on.”
This included Sean Wallace, played by Joe Cole and Ed Dumani (Lucian Msamati).
“It’s always a shock. It was a shock when Sean died, it was a shock when Ed died – people really didn’t expect it. But I think they learned through three seasons to expect the unexpected,” he said.
“The temptation is to hang on to these characters, because they are great, but it is also exciting to continue to invigorate the show and to regenerate ”. In this way, each season is different and feels fresh. There is a clue in the title:` `gangs de London ” is plural. Said, mentioning the addition of season 3 zeek ( Koji).
“We are always looking for ways to expand this world, and its background, obviously, has a real link with the Wallaces [he’s Finn Wallace’s illegitimate son]. We hope to explore this a little further. »»
So far, each season has been supervised by another director.
“More than any other show I have produced, it is designed as a directors’ program. Pulse Films had never made television before, so their network was all directors, like Gareth [Evans]. Each season, we had a strong author of an author: Gareth, then Corin Hardy and Hongsun Kim [in Season 3]. It was also very interesting that everyone has the outspect of Hongsun of Outsider. He certainly wanted it to feel more visually commercially. »»
And as for the director of season 4?
“We have confirmed no one, but we have some ideas. There are conversations in progress. ”
Whoever ends up taking up the universe, violence will always be an “integral part” of the show.
“Gareth is famous for very bulletic and extended violence sequences in” raid “films, so it’s part of the DNA in the series. We have to maintain it. Sometimes there is humor in there, and everything is very high. It’s almost a comic strip, and it allows us to go a little more.
Warren adds: “During season 2, Corin Hardy witnessed a very violent fight in London, and he was completely shocked. He told that it showed him how far we are distant from all this.”
At the Monte-Carlo television festival, Warren was joined by actors ọpẹents dìrísù-playing an ex-cop that has become gangster, Elliot and Narges Rashidi.
Warren also talked about another cliffhanger of season 3, the mayor of London (T’nia Miller) announcing a drug legalization plan.
“We do not explore it as a political argument as much as the impact on the world of gangs. One of the largest industries in the world is an illegal operation that is given to gangsters – if you delete this and transform this into a legitimate world, like that in the United States [after Prohibition ended]What happens to these people?
“This prospect of legalization would be incredibly threatening for them. All this money which, for the moment, is appreciated by highly affluent gangsters, would be appreciated by governments by taxation. Of course, the two worlds can always coexist, but it was an interesting thing to explore in terms of psyche of our characters.”
The show continues to portray London as a diversified and varied city.
“When I started and I went to the first meetings, I heard: there are so many roles for you – so many terrorists. It literally made me cry, I had depression, ”recalls Narges Rashidi during an interview in the round table. Born in Iran, she grew up in Germany.
Dìrísù adds: “This [multiculturality] has always been part of the show, also when it comes to people behind the camera. Sometimes you walk in the street in London and in the period of 100 meters, you will hear 16 different languages. People are allowed to express themselves in languages they speak at home. »»
Rashidi learned to approach the violence of the show as “playing an imagination”. “You feel a child again and you can play more, but it is not real. It helps for sure. It’s fun, because it is fictitious. It would not be in real life.”
“There is this moment in one of your combat sequences where, well, organic equipment has been used as a tournote. Let’s be real. There was a group of people in the area, going:” It cannot work.
In the future, Rashidi would like to see his character, Lale, “in a worldly situation”.
“And if she found a dog all of a sudden? You know, like a little puppy. And she has to face it. How is she going to shop? How would she choose her grocery stores? I would like to see her do this,” she said, with Dìrísù let’s please: “Forget the season with a dog, everything that is really long.
But finding a way to sympathize with their imperfect and criminal heroes is essential.
“We understand their motivations because similar things motivate us, although we do not hope to the same extent. People understand how violently Sean was willing to defend his family because they would like to do the same if their family was in similar situations, “he notes.
In the end, in “Gangs of London” – just like in real life – the family still comes first.
Warren adds: “When I came for the first time to the series and told him for the first time to Gareth, I said very clearly:” It is not my type. “But I was absolutely seized by the family saga.
