What will House of Cards‘ last season be like? Recently, star Michael Kelly spoke with Variety about the final season of Netflix TV show.
As reported earlier, Kevin Spacey has left the political drama amid accusations of sexual misconduct. As a result, production paused on the show’s sixth and final season until recently. The cast includes Kelly, Robin Wright, Diane Lane, Greg Kinnear, Jayne Atkinson, Patricia Clarkson, Cody Fern, Constance Zimmer, Derek Cecil, Campbell Scott, and Boris McGiver.
In the interview, Kelly said returning to the set of House of Cards without Kevin Spacey was strange:
t’s such a mixed bag of emotions because I was with that guy every single day. Almost the majority of my work other than the Rachel (Brosnahan) stuff, most of my stuff was with Kevin. To go back to the same stages, to the same sets, slightly altered with a new President obviously, but to go back to those sets and all of a sudden be with completely different people, it was a strange feeling. I don’t even know how to put it into words because you know one thing for so long and then all of a sudden it’s a completely different world you’re living in. There’s obviously a million emotions that I went through, that I processed during this whole thing. I don’t want to talk too much about it because it was heartbreaking in so many ways.”
And what about the last season? Kelly revealed it the Netflix series will focus heavily on Claire Underwood (Robin Wright):
The crew was out of work for a long time, and when everything went down, it was sort of like, “How do we do it? How do we keep it going?” Thank God she was President at the end of last season or else we might have found ourselves doing pretty badly. But it all worked out, and Robin is so frigging talented. I don’t want to say effortless because she works her a– off, but the way she portrays that character, it just … you work with her, and now the two of us have a lot together, where everything before was with Francis (Underwood). Now everything is with Claire, and it’s really been an interesting time. To have all those years to have learned from Kevin, and now all this time to learn from Robin, it’s just like as an actor, you can’t ask for anything more than that, to learn under those two people. (It’s been) the greatest acting classes for the last six years.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of House of Cards? Will you watch the last season?
I’ve just watched Episode 8 of Series 6 & as it has now ended, with no comments about the actors or their acting, which was superb, Series 6 was pants. Without Kevin Spacey, the storyline didn’t work & the ending was atrocious! Why couldn’t Netflix just have used another great actor to take his place; someone equally acerbic & commanding such as, Paul Giamatti, JK Simmons, Robert Redford, James Woods, Harvey Keitel, John Travolta, to name a few.
Come on Netflix, please continue this excellent series for us!
I not going to watch there is no show without Kevin house of cards will always end at season 5 for me
I’m not going to be an eager beaver about it, but might catch up after it’s ALL DONE!