Siloseason 2 returns to Apple TV+ on November 15, picking up right where the cliffhanger ending left off. Based on aseries of novels by Hugh Howey, the acclaimed sci-fi show follows Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) as she investigates the mysterious discrepancies between what she was raised to believe about her closed-off community and what she sees with her own eyes. After she was sent to clean, her friends all expected her to die upon breathing the toxic air outside, like all those who stepped outdoors before her. But thanks to a small change in the heat tape used to secure her hazmat suit,Juliette survives and learns there are several more Silos surrounding the toxic wasteland.
Theevents of theSiloseason 1 finalehave left Juliette’s friends shaken and authorities scrambling to pick up the pieces, but one thing is for sure: her actions have ensured that whispers of truths withheld lead to rallying cries for rebellion. Her mentor Martha Walker (Harriet Walter) took the first major step, literally and metaphorically, by asking her ex-wife Carla (Clare Perkins) to switch out the heat tape. Now that other members of Mechanical are getting involved and asking questions, Juliette is no longer in danger of being the last Flamekeeper with knowledge of the world before the Silo.
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ScreenRantinterviewed Walter and Perkins about the tentative rebuilding of Harriet and Carla’srelationship inSiloseason 2. The actors also discussed how each of their characters perceived the rebellion brewing in the Silo, and whether they expected to ever see Juliette again or not.
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“We don’t know enough of their history to know who’s the dominant one.”
Screen Rant: Clare, we only just met Carla at the end of season 1, but she has so much history with Martha. Can you talk about where their relationship is now that Walker has made her way to you again?
Clare Perkins: Yeah, I think that their hearts are tentative. I think they both know there’s a lot of feeling, but there’s also been a lot of time. I wouldn’t say there’s a lot of water under the bridge because they haven’t seen each other. They’ve been apart, and I think Carla has had to just get on with life. It’s 25 years, so after a while, she just gets on with life.
She’s obviously heard that Martha doesn’t come out of her workshop, so when she does come at the end of season 1, that’s a big thing. And I suppose it’s one of those moments where it’s like, “Do you dare to hope, or do you not dare to hope?” But she’s not out there and she’s not gushy, so all the hope is inside. She’s keeping herself at a distance, reluctant, waiting for Martha to disappear again. She doesn’t want that to happen, though.
Screen Rant: Harriet, what was it like for you to play the moment when Martha makes a choice to finally leave her workshop because she has to help Juliette? How does that change her as a person?
Harriet Walter: Well, it’s extraordinary, really. It takes an active imagination because obviously I’ve never been in that situation. One of the hardest things as an actor to imagine is time. you’re able to just about imagine a situation, but to think of it multiplied by 25 years is really hard for the imagination to take on board. I think she can’t imagine it either.
She’s sort of living day-to-day, and there’s this huge motivation from the only person in her sphere that she really cares about like her own daughter. She curses herself for her own timidity, for her own caution and her own fears, and she’s fighting herself. She’s just fighting herself. And then, of course, there’s the commensurate excitement that she’s managed to do it, which I think gives her a confidence that drives her through season 2.
Claire described the sort of tentativeness about the relationship with Carla. I’m obliged to open that up again for the sake of Juliette and the Silo, I think. But I also think that what’s interesting about the relationship between these two women is that we don’t know enough of their history to know who’s the dominant one. Who broke it up? Who wants who back? I feel that Martha needs Carla a bit more because Carla has been very operative within the community, whereas Martha’s been very locked down.
Now she’s opened that up, she’s opened up all her feelings — not just her engagement with the Silo and Julia, but all her feelings and the history between them. What we like is that it’s not explicit. It’s implicit, and we have these little secrets we can hold. We don’t quite know what the other one’s thinking, which means during the whole story that’s played out in season 2, neither of us quite knows who to trust and that plays well into the storytelling.
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“Whether Juliette’s alive or not, the vital component is the curiosity and the courage to find out more.”
Screen Rant: Speaking of being operative, Carla has been launched headfirst into the growing rebellion after making the world aware that there is something going on outside by switching the tape. Can you talk about how Carla feels in this new situation? How is she going to participate in the return of Flamekeepers, if you will?
Clare Perkins: Whereas everybody else in the Silo is probably living day-to-day, probably hoping that one day the outside will be safe, Carla knows exactly how much hardware there was to support the infrastructure of the Silo. [She knows] how much was in Supply when the Silo was built, and how much there is now. She’s more aware of the fragility of their world, of the need to provide for the future, and what they can provide in terms of the things that we need. Daily parts for construction, parts for the mines, parts for the farms, parts for clothing — all that. She knows about everything that’s needed.
I think without her going out there and going, “Guys, this is what’s happening.” Even though I think it’s something that’s not at the forefront of her mind, part of that links with her natural passion to say, “We need to take control of our world. We need more answers. We need things to change. So yeah, I think that’s what drives her, in terms of the rebellion.
Screen Rant: I imagine Juliette’s exit from the Silo is what is driving Martha right now. But can you talk about how she hopes to carry on Juliette’s legacy?
Harriet Walter: I think Martha is keen to spot the people who might carry Juliet’s legacy forward because she doesn’t know for sure at all that [she’s alive]. She actually suspects Juliette must have run out of good air and that her life is finite, but she feels that her spirit lives on.
It’s not religious, but it’s the same idea behind having an iconic figure who you keep alive in some way, spiritual or otherwise, to give courage and incentive to other people. I think she really does feel that in Shirley and Knox and other people she feels have caught the Juliette spirit. She’s relying on that to carry people forward because we’re both nearly out of it, in terms of our age group. The future’s in their hands, and whether Juliette’s alive or not, the vital component is the curiosity and the courage to find out more.
Screen Rant: Claire, do you think that Carla believes Juliet is dead as well? Or is there any chance she thinks she’s made it?
Clare Perkins: Yeah, I don’t think Carla’s a dreamer. I think she would like to have hope, but she’s of a certain age. Every single person that’s gone out there, they’ve watched die. She saw her go over the hill, but they’ve seen nothing else. I don’t think she would allow herself to think that she was alive, even though in the back of her mind, it’s like that’s probably one of the tiny things that sparks the revolutionary passion.
Something has happened that has never happened before at a time when people are seeking answers; they’re being blocked from those answers, and those answers are being denied. Something has changed, but I don’t think she’s thinking that Juliette’s alive. In that respect, she’s keeping her alive. The idea of Juliette is alive in her because something different has happened. If you think that they’ve been down there for generations and that has never happened before, she’s alive in that way. She’s alive as an idea of change.
Screen Rant: Finally, the show is ultra popular, so I have to imagine it will go on as long as they can make it go on. Should your characters make it to a potential season 3, what would you like to explore for them?
Harriet Walter: I’d love to be reunited with Juliette, obviously, if she’s out there. I think we should.
We’ve got the insoluble problem of, if [Martha and Carla] carry on our relationship, where do we live? Because I’m deeply embedded in my little workshop, and she’s deeply embedded in Supply. We’re both going to get more and more romantic, and it’s going to be harder and harder for us to climb those stairs with our old knees. Unless part of our rebellion is that we devise a way of creating some kind of elevation system with a lift, or I hand over the toolbox to somebody in Mechanical and retire and become her dog walker.
Clare Perkins: It’s like they’re not worlds apart because that is the world. But being flors apart is being worlds apart, isn’t it, within the silo. So, yeah, it’s like a long-distance relationship.
Silo is the story of the last ten thousand people on Earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and any who try to find out face fatal consequences. Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer, who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will.
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Siloseason 2 premieres November 15 on Apple TV+, with new episodes dropping every Friday.
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