Evan Rachel Wood says she still doesn't know how 'Westworld' was supposed to end, and it keeps her up at night. Last November, HBO canceled the series after its fourth season. When Wood recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of her New York stage debut as Audrey in the off-Broadway production of 'Little Shop of Horrors,' the actress shared that the abruptness of the cancellation was tough for both the audience and the cast due to the nature of how 'Westworld' creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy revealed the story.
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00:00 Evan Rachel Wood says she still doesn't know how Westworld was supposed to end,
00:03 and it keeps her up at night.
00:05 Last November, HBO canceled the series after its fourth season.
00:09 When Wood recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of her New York stage debut
00:12 as Audrey in the Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, the actress shared
00:17 that the abruptness of the cancellation was tough for both the audience and the cast,
00:20 due to the nature of how Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy revealed the story.
00:25 Wood said, "It was devastating in a lot of ways, because first of all,
00:28 they don't tell us where the show is going. We were just always told,
00:32 'We know how the show ends,' when we started. They weren't writing it as we went along.
00:36 They had an idea, and we were all just on a bed of nails waiting to see and hear what
00:40 the conclusion of this was, what it all meant." She continued, "We didn't get to have that.
00:44 And so after building an arc and a character for almost 10 years and not getting the payoff
00:48 at the end to see where it was all going, I think for us and the audience, it was awful in a lot of
00:53 ways." "The world out there is in trouble. It needs our help."
00:58 With the story seemingly at the end of the road, Wood said she reached out to Joy and Nolan to see
01:02 where they might have taken the show, but neither would reveal their endgame. Wood said, "I asked
01:06 the creators after we got canceled, 'Can you please just tell me how you're going to end?'
01:10 And they wouldn't tell me. I think because, I don't know, maybe somehow, some way, in some
01:15 iteration we'll get to finish it. But I still don't know. It does still keep me up at night."
01:19 For more on this story, head to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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