Thandie Newton Explains Why ‘Westworld’ Season 2 Threw Her for a Loop

TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I felt like those dreams when you’re running, but really slowly, and you just can’t get there,” the British actress says of new season

Thandie Newton
Photograph by Elisabeth Caren for TheWrap

A version of this story about Thandie Newton appeared in The Race Begins issue of TheWrap Emmy magazine

Thandie Newton was a little frustrated at the beginning of the second season of HBO’s drama “Westworld.” She’d won a Critics’ Choice Award and received Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe nominations for her first season as Maeve, a “host” madam who used to run the brothel in Westworld’s Mariposa Saloon.

Maeve started her own personal rebellion during Season 1, and was ready to embark on a search for her android daughter as Season 2 began. And Newton herself was ready to hit the ground running — but, she told TheWrap, the slow start to Season 2 for Maeve threw her for a loop.

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