EXCLUSIVE: Angelique Cabral & Constance Marie Talk What’s to Come in Season 2 of Undone

Season 2 of Undone is now streaming on Prime Video and to celebrate the release, we sat down with two of the stars of the show, Angelique Cabral & Constance Marie, to talk about the new season.

During our chat, we talked their characters, the series title, what they are hoping fans get from the season, and so much more. Check out what these lovely ladies had to say below.

Is there something either of you learned about your character this season that really surprised you?

Cabral: “I think this season for me, I was obviously shocked to find out that Becca had these powers, obviously. Right? That’s the first thing that I was like, ‘Yes.’ And then the rest is history, the whole sea just went from there. But we are not given any heads up. We don’t know thing about the arc, we don’t know what’s happening episode to episode. So each episode, I was more and more excited about Becca’s abilities and how she was leaning into her power and kind of standing on her own two feet and doing things for herself, not for her mom, not for her family, and just kind of becoming her own woman.”

Marie: “I was excited because we all knew why Camila finally was the way she was. Why she was so tough on Alma, why she wanted to do denial for Rebecca to just kind of erase her past which was so traumatic and so controversial at the time and how she had to endure so much from the legacy of her mother and what happened to her and what I was passing on down to my daughters. I was just so happy to have such a compassionate point of view of my character. It answered a lot of questions for me.

As you said Constance, we learn a lot about Camila’s past this season. If you could revisit your past, what would you say to yourself?

Marie: “I think I would say, ‘Don’t be so afraid. You’re going to be okay.’ That’s all I would be able to say.”

What about you Angelique?

Cabrel: “Weirdly, I feel like that’s the exact same thing I would say to me.”

Angelique, is there something particular about Becca that you yourself relate to?

“Her desire. I think her desire to be perfect, her desire to be a fixer, her desire to kind of compartmentalize her life and not mess it up, right. But then understanding that she’s way more powerful than she even knows and even wants to know. And then once she accepts that and leans into that, she becomes this full woman. I think that as a mother with two young children and in this business and in this industry, I’m learning that in real time. I’m stopping kind of worrying about what everyone thinks and just doing me and being with my family. That’s the crux of this industry. And I think it’s going to elevate my work and my life.”

The series title, Undone, how do you think that plays to the stories of your characters?

Cabrel: “I feel that within the series, we are all becoming Undone and it’s about the undoing of our perceptions of time, our perceptions of ourselves, our family, or our history. It’s the unlayering and undoing of that and a kind of shining a light and a taking a microscope to the inner workings of every character within the show. We all go through our own journey of that.”

Marie: “Right. And you almost have to become undone to get to the core of the humanity of each of these characters and it’s so appropriately title. It also is less scary in the rotoscope world because if we all did that in reality to the extent that these characters do, we’d be quivering masses on the floor. But in rotoscope, we can come undone and find some answers to maybe generational questions.”

You both have played these characters now for two seasons. How was your approach to the character different this season than last?

Marie: “I think that I had a lot more trust. From the first season, I didn’t know what it was going to be like. I had no idea what I was going to look like. I had no idea what the world was going to be like. And so this time I had a lot more trust that the high minded vision of what this show, what Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Hisko Hulsing envisioned this show to be, was what was it was going to be. I had a tremendous amount of trust in going to some very emotional places in my work and my character. And especially during COVID, because we shot the second season right when we started to open up.”

Cabrel: “Two years ago, we shot this.”

Marie: “Yeah, after lockdown. And so we had a lot less to work with than we even had in season one, which we didn’t have much to begin with. But because of COVID, we had even less. But there was a tremendous amount more trust that I had. And I knew that the writing had my characters back and I loved her so much more. And it was a wonderful gift to be able to flush her out. That was wonderful.”

Cabrel: “I feel like for me, going into season two, similarly, the trust of the team, but also coming out of this scary time of COVID, I feel like we brought with us so much like pathos, or we just wanted to like act. And we were really wanting to express ourselves. We kind of had been locked up. We had been kind of uprooted, right. I had been in production on this pilot that all of a sudden stopped and this just felt sure, and it felt safe, and they took care of us. We were really able to create these incredible scenes. I weirdly think that the COVID of it all kind of helped it. And so I think that we just came into season two, just so excited and so honored to say these words.”

Let’s go back to the first season. Can you describe what it felt like to shoot the season and then to see the finished project?

Cabrel: “Well, we were just like, ‘What is this?’ It was so incredible. And I think that the beginning of season one, we were rotoscope? It’s anime? We just had the scripts. No experience, and we all come from a world of scripted television that’s very high production value, primetime TV for years. This was very out of our comfort zone, but it takes a certain type of actor to lean in to do this, I think. And right away, we were like, ‘Oh, this is what this is, this is a family. We’re doing this.'”

Marie: “Right. We had the bare bones and we all were willing to go there on the bare bones. But I remember the minute I was like, ‘Can you just show me what we’re going to look like?’ So they literally said, ‘We’re going to draw lines and we’re going to show you what you look like.’ Your brain needs a certain amount of information in order to keep taking the leaps. I remember sitting in the office and the first time we saw, and it was just black and white, my mind was just, ‘How can they capture this many micro expressions and the emotions and the connection and the humanity just in a little black line on a white background?'”

Cabrel: “But then it allowed us to even go further. Because once we saw what they were doing, our trust was there, right. And we’re like, ‘Oh, we get it.’ And then by the end of season one, we were in our groove. Then when we saw season one, when it finally was released, we were like, ‘Oh, this is amazing.’ I was so proud.”

Marie: “It touched my heart because I was like, ‘This is a work of art and I am so blessed to be a part of it.’ And to just be a little tiny part of this magnificent show that also has such amazing themes that are important lessons, I think. So it just was a giant blessing. Every single level was a new discovery.”

Were there any fun moments from set this season?

Cabrel: “So much of it was fun because we had no one else to hang out with except each other because of COVID. We would just have so much fun. Yeah. I would say the stuff with Rosa [Salazar], anything to do with the playing the piano, those scenes, the sisterly stuff there, the falling, the door, the baby, all of that kind of stuff was just so intimate And really fun. And we just found such levity even though it was such serious work. Our like relationship was really formed during the season, I think, so much. Or solidified, I should say.”

Marie: “For me, I was jealous of their [Angelique and Rosa] connectivity because they had a lot of scenes together. I had scenes with Bob Odenkirk who was not there a lot of the time. So my fun part was that, because there was no wardrobe and because we got to go back in Camila’s history, I got to be pregnant and put my own pregnancy belly on. Thank God I had been a mother before, but I mean, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, this feels appropriately uncomfortable.’ And so I got to see myself young. I got to see my children young. It was just this wonderful exploration and do my hair in the ’80s, do my hair, the outfits. It was almost my own private little show I was doing. And then of course you put it all together and I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s just magnificent how it comes out.'”

To wrap up with one final question, what are you guys hoping fans get from this season?

Cabrel: “Oh, we hope that they take away this idea of what communication and introspection and looking at people with compassion, maybe just understanding that everyone has a history, everyone has a reason why they do things and a way that they got to be how they are. And I think as we’re coming out of this, well, it’s not over, but coming kind of out of this pandemic, if you will, just having compassion for people. We’re reconnecting, maybe understanding, take time for the people that matter and kind of get rid of the ones that don’t.”

Marie: “I also think it’s a wonderful opportunity to look at your own history and things that you wish that did differently. Some things you cannot change, but you can learn the lesson from them, and mindfully moving forward as to what you want your timeline to be and your relationships to be. The mental health aspect of it, I hope it takes a lot of the stigma off a lot of these, the social, emotional, and psychological trappings that we all are either born into, live our lives in. And to look inward with a lot more courage or just even curiosity, I think that’s wonderful. And to be more present, I think that would be a wonderful gift for everyone.”

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