The first trailer for Umbrella Academysecond season made it clear that the Netflix series is turning towards a markedly different direction than the Dark Horse comic series it’s based on. When the opening comic arc left Vanya (Ellen Page in the series) quite incapacitated by a shot, the TV show ended its first season with Vanya without shooting.
But with this new direction for The umbrella academy A new kind of freedom is coming for at least some of the Hargreeves brothers who spent their lives being manipulated by their father in different ways. ‘ Although Vanya, the devastatingly destructive white violin, stumbles across the second season in a particularly chaotic way, Page explained to io9 during a scheduled visit last winter that transported to the past it actually ends up being a healing experience for your character.
Unlike her siblings, who enter the 1960s fully aware of their history as world-famous superheroes, an unexpected accident leaves Vanya without much of her memory and needs assistance to get her back. In the comics, it is Vanya’s sister, Allison, who takes care of her until she recovers health after her brother Five shoots her in the head to prevent her from destroying the world. Here, however, it is a woman named Sissy (Marin Ireland) who comes to Vanya’s rescue inviting her to stay on her farm together with her family. Although Sissy is married and has a child, the relationship between her and Vanya soon grows more than platonic for a variety of complicated reasons.
Page explained that for Vanya, this is all a consequence of her new freedom to organically discover what kind of person she is.
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So Sissy and I fell in love. We’re having an affair, call it that, while I’m living with the husband and the child, ”Page said. “In terms of being the basis of Vanya’s story this season, and creating this amazing world around that part, having such an important part of the show and Vanya’s life was exciting for me.”
Similar to Vanya’s amnesia, inadvertently making it easier for her to harness her strangeness in a way she could never have while living under her father’s control, Page described how Vanya’s new situation also leads her to win a different and more nuanced relationship. with its once destructive powers. Although Vanya has no idea how she is able to do the things that she can, she knows that it is natural for her and she is not willing to fear that fact.
Between Vanya’s resurgence of powers and her relationship with Sissy, Page said the new season gave her an opportunity to deliver a much more complicated dynamic performance.
“So this season is very different because she is livelier, more present and living her life,” Page said. Whereas before it was extremely dull, isolated and obviously deeply repressed. This is like a complete starting point and an opportunity for someone to just feel and explore exactly who they are. “
The umbrella academy premieres this Friday, July 31.
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