After the third season finale of Westworld, we have a lot of questions about what to expect from the fourth season. One of the most important parts of the Westworld puzzle has always been Jeffrey Wright's Bernard, a robot host who spends a lot of his time trying to understand what's happening. At a recent press event, io9 and other outlets got a chance to speak with Wright about what's in store for Bernard. The actor who plays Bernard in The Batman, What If, and No Time to Die was able to explain a bit about why Bernard has become an audience surrogate.
Evan Rachel Wood has this insight as well, but Bernard was created to be an engineer and the most technically savvy of the hosts. Wright said that his role has been to mine down into the unknown and solve the mysteries. It's a chance for the audience to explore the technology, and perhaps not so much to explore the park, but just explore the inner workings of Delos. Bernard was the person who helped us through that. I think it makes sense to travel through multiple timelines. He is the only one who is traveling in this way with a flashlight, shining it into the corners of the rooms by the nature of his responsibilities.
Even though Wright plays one of the key characters on Westworld, he doesn't know a lot about what's going to happen He told the Roundtable that he has never seen an entire script for a show at the beginning of filming. It's a very fast process. For the entire scope of the show, they have the overall arcs for any season. One of the challenges to working on our show is that it is constantly evolving and morphing, and at the beginning of any given season, not all the episodes have been written.
I didn't know where Bernard was going in the fourth season. I knew how Bernard was going to navigate through it and what kind of new updates to his system he had been given at the beginning. He said that the first season where he didn't know anything at all was different. I came back to Lisa Joy's office just prior to the start of the first season to find out Bernard's secret. It was necessary because things wouldn't have made sense without it. If they don't make sense, I will trust the process. Don't let the journey get you down. Our writers, led by Lisa and Jonathan Nolan, should be trusted. We relaxed a bit and gave in to the mystery.
The fourth season of Westworld will premiere on June 26th.
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