Michael K. Williams is very positive about Lovecraft Country‘s prospects of getting a second season.
Williams spoke with Collider about the series while promoting his latest role in film Body Brokers, which is now available digitally and on-demand. Williams, who played Atticus'(Jonathan Majors) complex father Montrose, talked about how he feels like the series has a good chance of coming back to HBO.
“Whatever the outcome will be, I’ll have to be all right with it because I have no bearing on that aspect of the world, but I feel very hopeful that there will be a Season 2,” Williams said. “I know that show took a lot out of me, so I can only imagine what the writers must have gone through for three years. I came in for eight or nine months, and that was the final part of the process for that.”
“In actuality, Lovecraft Country took about three years to get it to the point where they were ready for the actors to come on set,” he continued. “It’s heavy stuff. It’s heavy lifting and a lot of that lifting is done in the writers’ room. I do believe that there will be a Season 2, but when? Who knows.”
Williams said that if the second season comes through, he’ll be thrilled to see how the show continues the story without using Matt Ruff’s book as a guide.
“Yeah, it is exciting, honestly, because it’s a reveal,” he said. “It’s a big surprise. I guess I can speak for my castmates, we’re like, ‘What are you gonna do now?’ We don’t know. It’s exciting to wonder what they’re conjuring up in the writers’ room. It’s very exciting.”
Williams’ excitement for the series could bode well if we count HBO head Casey Bloys also said how he’s “hopeful” creator Misha Green and her writing team can create a viable season pitch.
“Misha is working with a small team of writers and they’re coming up with a take,” he said, as reported in February. “She had a book to go on in the first season, she and the writers wanted to go off and take some time to go out and figure out without a book with these characters, what’s the journey we want to go on.”
“We all want to be sure she’s got a story to tell,” he continued. “That’s where she is right now, working on those ideas. I’m very hopeful, as is Misha, so we’re giving them to work.”
