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\n [The following story contains spoilers from season two of Netflix\u2018s The Diplomat<\/em>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n There\u2019s a new president at the end of season two of The Diplomat<\/em> and Kate (Keri Russell) and Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell) have just made a \u201cvery powerful enemy,\u201d as the actors themselves tell The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n In the closing seconds of the season two finale of the Netflix political thriller, Kate and viewers learn, as Hal relays to her over the phone, that President Rayburn (Michael McKean) got so upset when Hal told him that his vice president, Grace Penn (Allison Janney), was behind the attack on the British warship that kicked off the series<\/a> that the president died.<\/p>\n

\n As the vice president\u2019s staff swarms onto the back lawn at the ambassador\u2019s residence to protect the new commander-in-chief, the camera closes in on Penn.<\/p>\n

\n Speaking to THR<\/em>, both Russell and Sewell indicate that their characters are likely still so shocked that they haven\u2019t thought about what the White House shake-up means for their political future, including Kate\u2019s vice presidential ambitions.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think this is one of those rare occasions where Hal has not game<\/a>d this one out,\u201d Sewell says, with Russell agreeing and both saying they thought they were being \u201csuper clever\u201d with their plans prior to the president dying. \u201cIn this moment, he is absolutely like a child in terms of he\u2019s helpless, and she is walking this lost man through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Russell adds, recalling how before she gets the news<\/a>, Kate and Penn were arguing about the vice presidency, \u201cI mean, the real, immedia<\/a>te battle is Grace Penn. I mean, we have just had it out. It becomes very complicated, but fun and rich and exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The two have already had a roller coaster dynamic including a contentious early interaction where Penn criticizes Kate\u2019s appearance<\/a>, saying that if she really wants to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, she should spend a little more time on how she looks.<\/p>\n

\n The Diplomat<\/em> showrunner Debora Cahn says Penn\u2019s speech, in which she calls out Kate\u2019s hair, bra and the paperclip holding up her pants<\/a>, came from discussions with people who worked on Hillary Clinton\u2019s political campaigns.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cJust talking about the level of granularity into your life, yourself, your body that happ<\/a>ens when you are being crafted into a product for the public, I just found it so striking that I had been waiting for two seasons to find a place to put it in and finally did,\u201d Cahn says, adding that the comments about Kate\u2019s hair and bra came from things people had really said.<\/p>\n

\n As for that shocking moment at the end of season two, that idea, Cahn says, came up in the middle of the season and was connected to knowing that Oscar- and Emmy-winner Janney, who Cahn previously worked with on The West Wing<\/em>, was boarding the series.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cOnce we knew that Allison Janney was coming, it became clear that we wanted her to be a strong center of gravity in the story. And at that point, it sort of seemed obvious that that was that that was the move,\u201d Cahn says. \u201cBut for me, that\u2019s really the fun of it, is you have an idea for where the story is going, but something changes. There\u2019s a casting change, or there\u2019s a way that a story hits you when you see it on film, and perhaps you didn\u2019t read it that way on the page, and that gives you an idea that just changes the whole direction of the series.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The Diplomat <\/em>has already been renewed for and begun production on its third season, likely welcome news for fans disappointed that season two only had six episodes and still reeling from that shocking finale.<\/p>\n

\n And Sewell indicates things only get more complicated and thrilling in season three.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe end of season two is one thing, but very quickly even more extraordinary things happen,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat I loved that made me take the job was the relationship. Now what I realize was that the more extraordinary the surroundings are, the more context there is informing that relationship. Allison Janney coming in, the dynamics of the story after what happens at the end of season two really gives us some extraordinary things. Also it changes dynamics that might have been in danger of playing out. And it\u2019s getting really complex, the dynamics, the billing, is changing, which is always so rich when you\u2019re acting in a relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Penn coming up with the attack on the British ship, which viewers and Kate learn from Hal in the closing seconds of the penultimate episode of season two, with Penn explaining her rationale to Kate with a piece of coal and a world map in the season two finale, was connected to Cahn\u2019s initial ideas for the series.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI always knew that I wanted to kind of come back to a position of American responsibility,\u201d she tells THR<\/em>, adding that the development reflects the more nuanced portrayal of political officials she\u2019s aiming for with the series. \u201cAnd the idea behind that was that something happens, our first move is we have a like Islamophobic reflex, and we immediately blame Iran, and then we blame Russia. And then it turns out, we had this idea of the call\u2019s coming from inside the house, and that we were learning that our closest allies and best friends have perhaps inflicted this one upon ourselves. And how do you investigate your host country? How do you kind of make an intelligence investigation in a place where you share all intelligence resources, as we do in the U.K.? But the goal was ultimately to bring it back to us, to start with something that we quickly see as something that we can blame on bad people. And then it turns out that you dig all the way around to the end, and there\u2019s the involvement of this person who we don\u2019t think is bad. We think she\u2019s really smart, and she did her best in a hard situation. That\u2019s what I am looking for always. I think that it\u2019s sort of a cop out to say that, well, like a bad person and a bad country did this thing, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re all getting hurt. It isn\u2019t that easy, and it\u2019s, I think, way more compelling and way more complicated if you say, OK, good, smart people who care about their own families and care about other people\u2019s families all did their best, and we\u2019re still in the middle of this shit show, and we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Cahn says that this objective of good people taking actions that might still result in negative consequences is something she wants to portray with all of the characters, including Kate, as viewers this season see her facing the unintended consequences of some of her decisions, including her call to Margaret Roylin (Celia Imrie) at the end of season one that ultimately leads to the car bombing that kills embassy staffer Ronnie (Jess Chanliau) and wounds Hal and Stuart (Ato Essandoh) and Kate and Hal miscalculating how Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) will react to the news of Roylin\u2019s involvement in the ship attack.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI want to show everybody in that way,\u201d Cahn says. \u201cThe idea was that we talk about this person who is absolutely evil and untrustworthy. And then we meet them, and we feel like, well, they\u2019re kind of personable. But we still think that this is a bad actor. And then eventually we sort of wrap our way around to understanding the situation that she was in and feeling like, \u2018Oh God, I might have done the same thing.\u2019 And that was the plan in the beginning. And that\u2019s absolutely the plan with Kate. Everybody who we sort of meet and we think is bad, ultimately, hopefully that opinion flips, and then it flips again. And the same thing with Kate, the kind of things that we would ascribe to villains in a different kind of narrative, Kate is absolutely making those moves and making those choices and mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The season also sees Kate and Eidra, working as \u201cco-conspirators,\u201d as Ahn puts it, to investigate who\u2019s behind the ship attack, pushing each other to do some questionable things.<\/p>\n

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Ali Ahn and Keri Russell in The Diplomat<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n \u201cEidra is being asked to break some rules that she wouldn\u2019t normally but because she trusts Kate, she\u2019s kind of stepping out on a limb for her,\u201d Ahn says. \u201cIt\u2019s basically a testament to how much she respects Kate and Kate is basically asking her to trust her. And probably they don\u2019t have a lot of options and they don\u2019t have a lot of time. She\u2019s making the best decision she can with the information she has and it means doing something she\u2019s not comfortable with but because of the security nature of it, there\u2019s really not a lot of flexibility that she has so it\u2019s sort of their only shot and I think she knows that she\u2019s risking her job but it seems important enough to take that risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Hal characterizes the fatal car bombing as \u201cthe cost of doing business,\u201d which enrages Kate, but Russell admits she thinks her character is starting to understand more of the difficult choices that her husband had to make when he was an ambassador.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI do, yeah, of being a boss and being in charge of people and having to make hard decisions, and sometimes you make the best decision you can at that time,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I think the world is full of those decisions, in a family, in a relationship, in politics, I mean, we make them all the time, and you\u2019re usually making the best decision you can with the information you have at that moment. But, yeah, I think there is a reckoning. I think she understands him a little bit more. I do think she\u2019s still super judgmental of him. I just, I don\u2019t think that will ever go away. That is who she is, and she makes no bones about it, with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Despite the ongoing judgment, season two finds Kate and Hal more committed to their marriage than in season one, when she was ready to divorce him and a mutual attraction with British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi) was teased.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think having a tragic event like that really does turn the volume down on personal like desires and wants. I mean, it\u2019s just such a wake up, and I think things get really focused, and I think that\u2019s what happened. I think you reevaluate everything, and you go in close and remember what\u2019s important,\u201d Russell says. \u201cTo me, this season is such a different temperature for them as a couple. It, for me, it becomes kind of heartbreaking and real and and mature, you know, kind of in the way that really long-term relationships do, or long-term marriages do. I think also story wise, there\u2019s so much turmoil going on, giant things going on in Kate\u2019s station and in the country and affecting the world that I think she needs help from someone that she knows she can trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n And Kate puts Hal to work more, investigating her theory about who was behind the ship attack.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere are certain things that she cannot know, and as a kind of independent body, I can now perform the function of taking on the weight of information that she needs to have the benefit of, but she can\u2019t actually officially know it herself legally, so she needs me in that regard,\u201d Sewell explains of Hal\u2019s increased involvement.<\/p>\n

\n And though viewers might think Hal has ulterior motives, Sewell sees it as him just supporting her and himself as they achieve their ambitions together.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s being duplicitous at all. I think he is genuinely trying to help,\u201d Sewell says. \u201cHe is personally ambitious for himself. He\u2019s he is hugely ambitious for her. And as far as I\u2019m concerned, I don\u2019t think he is someone who\u2019s secretly maneuvering himself, maneuvering for advantage, for himself at someone else\u2019s Kate\u2019s expense. I think they, both of them, between them, have developed a keen eye for what the play is. The play being what do we do to achieve the things that we believe are important in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n While Dennison ends the season strongly shutting the door on him and Kate expanding their partnership, as he allies himself more with Trowbridge, partly in a bid for \u201csurvival,\u201d Gyasi suggests the feelings between Dennison and Kate might still be there.<\/p>\n

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David Gyasi and Keri Russell in The Diplomat<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n \u201cI think in their heads they think this can\u2019t possibly happen. But I think the problem with human beings and human emotion is you can\u2019t just switch it off like that. It\u2019s quite interesting to have to say those things and then have those feelings. So I don\u2019t know. At the end of season one there\u2019s this massive explosion but instead of all of the pieces being blown apart, they just get separated, but they\u2019re still whole so I think you get these pieces starting to land again but I think that relationship gets hidden in a box somewhere and we\u2019re not going to look at that. But what happens is that starts to fester and grow and then we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Another romance that fans may have been disappointed to not see revived is the one between Stuart (Ato Essandoh), dealing with a \u201closs of innocence\u201d and \u201cjagged,\u201d \u201cvolatile\u201d PTSD from surviving the car bombing, and Eidra (Ali Ahn). And Essandoh and Ahn seem to share their characters\u2019 differing views on whether they should get back together.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m a romantic and I\u2019d love for them to get together,\u201d Essandoh tells THR<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t know what Debora\u2019s going to cook up. I kind of like how all of these relationships interact and change and how they change based on the circumstances. I think they\u2019re a great couple. but who knows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Ahn, meanwhile, just doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s \u201cthe right person for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of love, but I think Stuart\u2019s still not respecting her when she\u2019s at work,\u201d Ahn says. \u201cI think for Eidra, I think there\u2019s a lot that she likes about Stuart but I think ultimately she feels like he doesn\u2019t understand and respect what she\u2019s doing. He compromised her at the end of season one and in season two he\u2019s still not respecting her boundaries. It\u2019s a very adult relationship in that even though she recognizes that she has feelings for him, she recognizes, at least at the end of season two, that he\u2019s not the right person for her as much as she might want him to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Going forward, Cahn says she has \u201cideas for a long, long time,\u201d and seemed confident the series could \u201ckeep going\u201d beyond season three.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI know some of the way that the story could continue or end. There\u2019s some of it that I don\u2019t know,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd, you know, to be completely honest, I have to say a lot of my favorite stuff was not in my plans in the very beginning. It\u2019s great that what we see from the actors could be the inspiration for that or somebody else on the writing staff. I have ideas but I want them to be outdone, like just blown out of the water by something else that\u2019s even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n All six episodes of the Diplomat<\/em>\u2018s second season are streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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