Sterling K. Brown Reveals How That ‘Paradise’ Death Changes Everything in Season 2

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains major spoilers from the fourth episode of season two of Paradise , “A Holy Charge.”] The Paradise writers didn’t want to kill Shailene Woodley ‘s character. But the death of Annie in episode four after she was introduced only one week earlier, in the first episode of season two’s three-part release , was something that had to happen in order to tell Xavier’s story. “We didn’t set out saying, ‘Let’s go kill Annie.’ A lot of this comes from, ‘What does Xavier need to go through?'” executive producer/writer John Hoberg explains to The Hollywood Reporter about Annie’s fate and the impact her death will have on the hero of Dan Fogelman ‘s series who is played by Sterling K. Brown . Not to mention that killing off Woodley after only a few episodes wasn’t an easy call. “It was hard to have Annie die,” he says, “and that’s why we had to do it — as terrible as that sounds.” Related Stories TV Shailene Woodley on Her Big 'Paradise' Episode: "Primal and Deeply Rooted" TV 'Paradise' Is Already Raising Big Questions With Season 2 -- and Will End With a Season 3 Hoberg says they needed an actress tough enough so viewers would believe she could survive these past post-apocalyptic years on her own at Graceland, but also someone who had a vulnerability, and who had the ability to play both of those things at the same time. “Shailene is a rare actor who can do that perfectly,” he says. Annie dies in childbirth , and her last act is to charge Xavier with bringing her daughter to the Paradise bunker and reunite her with her father, Link (Thomas Doherty). Hoberg says Xavier and Annie had to bond deeply enough so that he would carry on that mission to take care of her child. The fourth episode then ends with Xavier, carrying Annie’...