Carnival Row Season 2: Andrew Gower on Ezra’s Turning Point & His First Modern Character in You

Three years after the Season 1 finale of Carnival Row, the steampunk fantasy is finally coming to a close with Season 2. Based on Travis Beacham’s 2005 Blacklist screenplay A Killing on Carnival Row, the series is set within a Victorian-like fantasy world filled with fantastical creatures filled with prejudice, murder, and betrayal. The story mostly focuses on the faerie Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delevingne) and Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) who are caught up in the political intrigue in the Row, but it also features a harrowing look into the star-crossed romance between Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) and Agreus (David Gyasi), who are on the run from her cruel and controlling brother Ezra Spurnrose (Andrew Gower) in Season 2. During the 1-on-1 interview with Andrew Gower, he spoke about Ezra’s evolution between Season 1 and Season 2 of Carnival Row, when he reached the point of no return, and what the most difficult scenes were to film in his final season. He also spoke about his first