Evan Rachel Wood on Creating Westworld’s ‘Dolores 2.0’
Dolores Abernathy gets an upgrade in the second season. “This is Dolores 2.0, times one thousand,” Wood told Vulture at premiere of the new season at Hollywood’s CineramaDome, about how radically her character evolves, and – thanks in large part to the show’s notorious built-in storyline secrecy (many actors rarely receive more than their immediate scene pages each episode) – how little she had to go on while rethinking her approach to Dolores.
Wood added that the creative leaps had big payoffs – for her, the creative team and, she hopes, the Westworld faithful. “You really get to act on this show,” she said, “and it’s rare that we get called upon to do these things.”
