The secret is out: Jace is the Owl. Shadowhunters revealed Jace’s secret (even to him) identity two weeks ago, though no one inside the world of the show is aware just yet. While everyone else sleeps, Lilith has been using Jace to do her bidding, and according to star Dominic Sherwood, things are only going to get worse from here.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you prepare to play the Owl, such a different character from Jace?
DOMINIC SHERWOOD: It was hard. We had a huge discussion, especially because at the beginning, this character doesn’t say anything, so everything we tried to do was about a physicality and a movement. What we tried to do was make him move as much as possible like Will playing Jonathan, not only for the red herring but also because of the connection with Lilith. We thought the physicality of this character would be mirrored by Lilith’s interpretation of who Jonathan is. So we worked very hard and I talked to Will about this a bunch, and then went back and watched what he did with his physicality and how he walked and talked and held himself, and I tried as much as I could to mimic that as the Owl.Is the Owl face all CGI?
It’s not CGI at all. It’s a mask. That was an exploration. They do the face mold which is no fun — you’re in a warm room, and they put this goo on your face, and you have to sit there for like an hour breathing through a tube. It’s a pretty rough day. Then they give it to you and it feels funny wearing it, and then you can’t really breathe properly and you can’t see. The first scene I did, we had these rain towers up, and I couldn’t see through the lenses because they’re foggy. They’re also tinted, and it was night so everything was really dark. Then what we found out is that the masks leaked and the lenses started to fill up with water. That was difficult. And the pants ripped, too, literally from my belly button all the way to the small of my back. That was fun. Because every time this creature possesses someone, he kneels over them and holds their face. And sure enough, I kneeled down and [my pants] ripped all the way through. Thank god I chose to even wear underwear that day, but I chose to wear bright orange underwear, which everybody saw. All around it was a pretty difficult day, and we all learned a lot about changes we had to make to the Owl’s costume. [Laughs]How is Jace going to react to finding out he’s the Owl?
Jace doesn’t find out until late in the season because he’s still possessed. He still has no idea what’s going on. He’s the last person to find out, and as far as his reaction, it’s not good. We also haven’t seen the worst of the Owl yet. We haven’t seen the worst of this creature, we haven’t seen the depths of depravity that Lilith is going to make this creature go to. It gets much, much worse. This is about revenge for Lilith more than anything. She wants to use this creature for his abilities and to get what she wants, but at the end of it, she’s going to destroy him. She’s going to take a mean swing at it, trust me.How does being the Owl affect his relationships?
The relationships are tricky. It’s difficult, like when Alec approached him about losing his mind, he snapped at Alec. That kind of snap to aggression isn’t something that we see in that relationship very often, especially when Alec has come to him with such concern. In the next episode, we see them come together and discuss Jace’s situation a little bit more, which is nice. But what Lilith is trying to do is going to have an effect on all of them because what we’re going to find out more and more is that this creature has Jace’s memories, so he knows how to get to Alec and how to get to Clary and how to get to Izzy and how to get to Magnus. It’s this creature trying to destroy Jace through his friends. It’s really quite awful.Shadowhunters airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Freeform.
SOURCE:EW
GALLERY UPDATE
SHADOWHUNTERS > SEASON 03 > EPISODE STILLS > 305 – Stronger Than Heaven
April 17 (8:00 – 9:01 p.m. EDT) – Episode 3005 – “Stronger Than Heaven”
Someone is out to get Simon and Jace is on the hunt to find out who it is, meanwhile Clary turns to Luke to find a way to help Jace. Alec worries about the future of his relationship after learning more about Magnus’ romantic past. (Guest starring Anna Hopkins, Chai Hansen and Lisa Berry)
GALLERY UPDATE
SHADOWHUNTERS > SEASON 03 > EPISODE STILLS > 304 – Thy Soul Instructed
April 10 (8:00 – 9:01 p.m. EDT) – Episode 3004 – “Thy Soul Instructed”
Jace’s concerns grow about his mental state and turns to Luke for information on his family’s past. Clary and Izzy go after a rogue vampire and Simon hunts for a new apartment. (Guest starring Anna Hopkins, Chai Hansen and David Castro)
This Week’s Exclusive Secrets from Set: Finding out the Jace is, in fact, the Owl is a pretty big trip. What’s even trippier is that Dominic Sherwood has actually been under the mask this whole time instead of leaving it up to a stunt guy. Talk about going the extra mile!
“That costume is not an easy thing to fight in,” Sherwood reveals. “The mask is quite heavy. There are solid black lenses that are out of focus, so I can’t really see 100 percent, but at the end of the day it looks sweet, so it doesn’t really matter that much.”
At least Clace fans can be kind of happy to know that McNamara confirms the big choking scene is all for show and Sherwood’s hand was “barely” on her throat.
Shadowhunters airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Freeform.
Shadowhunters is finally back for its third season, and the mother of all evil is headed Clary’s (Katherine McNamara) way.
The events of the Season 2 finale left several balls up in the air, one of which was the arrival of Lillith (Anna Hopkins), brought out of her hell dimension Edom by Jonathan (Will Tudor). Covered in what looks to be black blood, Lillith is definitely the most horrifying villain we’ve seen the Shadowhunters face this far.
She won’t be the only problem Clary and the gang have to contend with though. Clary’s wish from the angel to resurrect Jace (Dominic Sherwood) after he was killed by Valentine (Alan Van Sprang) will have both supernatural and political consequences in Season 3, and there’s also that matter of the Seelie Queen (Lola Flanery) shoring up her allies in the Downworld to deal with.
It sounds like The Clave will have its hands full this season, so we called up Katherine McNamara to find out which problems will be a priority for Clary when Season 3 premieres.
Where do we pick up in Season ? How much time has passed?
Katherine McNamara: There’s been a couple of days I think, but not much time has passed since… we’ve seen Valentine’s death on the beach and Jace’s death and resurrection, if you will. And now Clary is receiving her Angelic rune and officially becoming part of the Shadow World, and diving head on into this life that she was once thrown into.Where’s Clary’s head at after killing her own father and using the Shadowhunters’ one wish to bring Jace back to life? Those are two really huge things to happen in her life.
McNamara: It’s very true. A lot has happened to Clary. And from the beginning of the series, it’s only been a few months if you want to think about timelines. So to go through all this, to be thrown into a new world, discover that you have these powers, lose your mother, your best friend becomes a vampire, you find and lose a brother, kill your own father, the love of your life dies and comes back to life, it’s a lot. It’s a lot to go through… She’s gone from this little girl who looked at the Shadow World with a sense of wonder and magic to a woman who sees the world for what it is, which is a cold-cutting, dark, deadly world that has consequences for any seemingly harmless action. And she understands that now, and she understands that she has a responsibility to atone for everything that she’s caused up until this point, and to fix any problem that’s still occurring because of her.Clary’s finally, officially joining the Shadowhunter ranks, but she’s doing so under terrible circumstances. She’s hiding this huge secret from The Clave that she used their one wish. How long can she keep that up?
McNamara: You know, things only stay secret in the Shadow World for so long, and when there’s one wish that’s a failsafe for all Shadowhunters for all time and it gets used to bring your boyfriend back to life, there are some pretty dire consequences coming, let me put it that way. But what it does for Clary is it binds her and Jace together in the sense that they know that when the consequences come, it’s going to be the two of them that are held responsible, and they have to be there for each other, and they have to be completely on the same page. But also, Clary feels the responsibility for what Jace is going through because she knows something’s wrong with Jace. As much as he tries to hide it from her and put on a brave face, she knows that there’s something going on, and she knows that she’s responsible.Like you mentioned, Jace is suffering some serious side effects from the wish. How does that impact Clary’s relationship with him?
McNamara: She’s always seen Jace as this powerful, angelic warrior, and he’s come back from this broken. And she feels responsible for breaking that powerful spirit that is in him, and what it does is because she can’t turn to anyone without making them culpable, is it inspires this wonderful initiative in her to really take matters into her own hands and to handle things in a way that she will finally take responsibility, and she will finally forge her own way into the Shadow World and really take action in a real way.It seems like this might be a major obstacle for them?
McNamara: It’s true. There’s a huge block in their relationship at the moment, unfortunately. This is the first time that the two of them have had a chance to really let their relationship grow… and for them to love each other the way they’ve always wanted to. So moving forward, yes, you do see a few moments of light romance and a few times where they can actually behave as a couple without dealing with the world ending around them. But it does put a damper on things because they feel the weight of this secret and they feel the responsibility, and Jace too is struggling with these hallucinations that he’s having that are rather violent, if you will.Shadowhunters: Here’s Your First Look at Malec in Season 3!
Alec (Matthew Daddario) is obviously very suspicious because he felt that Parabatai bond disappear. How’s he going to feel knowing Clary and Jace are hiding something from him?
McNamara: It’s kind of an unfortunate situation. More than kind of an unfortunate situation. Alec has not trusted Clary for so long, being the new one coming in, and she’s really had to prove herself to him. And finally, he’s starting to accept her as a Shadowhunter, and they’ve really started to become friends, and he started to give her responsibilities and see her as part of the team, but now there’s this secret, and it’s really putting an obstacle in their way. Alec being Jace’s Parabatai of course knows there’s something going on, even if he doesn’t know what it is, he knows. And Clary was the only other person on that beach, so obviously she’s the one with the answers, and she can’t lie to him very well because she sees how much it’s hurting him and she sees how painful it is for him to know that his Parabatai is struggling and not know how to help him. Ultimately, she’s stuck between a rock and a hard place because she can’t tell him. She can’t turn to Alec. She can’t turn to Isabelle because it will make them culpable as well, and she refuses to let anyone else be hurt because of what she did.We got our first look at Lilith in that trailer, but what can you say about her agenda and what she’s planning?
McNamara: Lilith is probably the most fierce evil that we’ve seen emerge from the shadows here. We’ve seen demons, we’ve seen greater demons, we’ve seen rogue vampires and evil Shadowhunters, but we have yet to see a Queen of Hell. We have yet to see the Mother of all Demons, and she is quite a fearsome foe. And also, Jace and Clary in particular have a huge target on their backs because Lilith — the closest thing Lilith had to a child was Jonathan, and we’re responsible for hurting him. She’s out for vengeance, and to put it lightly, forgiveness and reconciliation are not high on Lilith’s priority list.Lillith sort of alluded to maybe trying to bring Jonathan back to life. How do you think Clary would react to that if by some miracle he did come back?
McNamara: This is the one dilemma with this relationship. The relationship with her brother is the one that has been left unresolved up until this point, and she will always feel his loss, and she will always feel that hole that’s there because it’s a relationship that never got given a chance… We saw that last season that as soon as she found out that she had a brother, and that Jonathan was alive and that he was out there somewhere, the first thing she wanted to do was find him and help him because to have that chance at finding a blood relative, to have that chance at having a piece of your biological family still alive and still there for you, of course you’re gonna want to push through that … I don’t know, all I can say is that it will always be something that she feels responsible for and feels like was a missed opportunity.
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For those of you who need a refresher, Shadowhunters ended its second season with a lot of death (and resurrection). After Valentine killed Jace, Clary returned the favor, killing her father and then asking the Angel to return Jace to the land of the living. The Angel did just that, reuniting Clary with her love. But Jace wasn’t the only person who cheated death. After fans thought they’d seen the last of Jonathan, he opened a portal to hell and brought “mother” — a.k.a. Lilith — into things.
EW talked with star Katherine McNamara about what to expect when season 3 returns.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Does this show just keep getting darker?
KATHERINE MCNAMARA: It really does. But that’s one of the most exciting parts about it because we keep building on what we’ve done so far. We want to get better and darker and scarier and more intense, and somehow it just keeps happening, and it’s wonderful.When season 3 picks up, are Clary and Jace in a real relationship?
I’m pretty sure from the moment that Jace said “I love you” and then died — that’s kind of the most twisted way to ask someone to be your girlfriend [laughs] — from that moment, they know how they feel about each other. It’s through that dire circumstance that they realize that they can’t be apart, and they literally cannot live without each other. This is the first moment we have to see them have a real relationship and to really love each other the way they’ve always wanted to and to really let that relationship grow, even though there’s this giant secret that’s weighing heavily on both of them. And the after-effects of Jace being resurrected are also coming into play.How will Clary’s decision to resurrect Jace affect them?
Clary made a rash decision, a decision of passion and adrenaline in the moment. I don’t think Clary will ever regret the decision to bring Jace back to life, but she definitely understands that it might not have been the most responsible choice. That’s going to have a huge effect moving forward because it’s this big secret that she knows she can’t confide in anyone at the Institute because then that makes them culpable. So what it does is it spurs on this initiative in Clary to move forward and take responsibility for her actions and really atone for everything, as well as trust her instincts as a Shadowhunter and do everything she can to help Jace.Jace and Clary are always busy saving the world, but do we get to see them be a normal couple at all, maybe go on a date?
It’s really lovely because you do see a few brief moments of that. They do find their little pockets of time when the world isn’t ending and someone’s not about to die and they don’t have to rush off to some mission, where you get to see them behave as a couple and you see those awkward moments and the sweet moments and the romantic moments. But ultimately, the Shadow World takes precedence over happy couple time.Let’s not skip over the fact that Clary killed her father. Are there any emotional or mental side effects from that for her?
Absolutely. Clary’s fighting so hard against being a Morgenstern and against that darkness that she inherited from her father, but ultimately that was the key to defeating him. You saw her snap. You saw her go full Morgenstern, if you will, and take out her father. But moving forward, what that develops into is a maturity in Clary. It’s only been a couple months that she’s been a part of this world and she lost her mother, she found and lost a brother, she found the love of her life and had him die and come back to life, and ultimately she had to kill her father. That changes a person, so whereas once she was this little girl who came into this world with wide-eyed wonder, she’s now a woman who sees this world for what it is, which is a dark, deadly world that has no forgiveness.On another note, how will Clary react to Simon’s deal with the Seelie Queen?
This is I think one of the biggest tragedies of this season is that Simon and Clary are stranded alone, away from each other, for quite a while. Because Simon has so much to deal with with the deal he made with the Seelie Queen and the effects of that. And Clary is so engrossed in dealing with Jace and trying to help him and figure out what’s wrong with him. They’re left without each other and without anyone to turn to for a long time.Shadowhunters returns Tuesday, March 20 at 8 p.m. ET on Freeform.
SOURCE:EW.com
It takes a LOT of work to kick butt on Shadowhunters Katherine McNamara and Dominic Sherwood take us behind-the-scenes of their killer fight scenes!-via Access Hollywood
Clary is embarking on an exciting new journey in Shadowhunters‘ third season, but thanks to all of Jace’s baggage, she won’t be traveling lightly.
TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek of next week’s long-awaited premiere (March 20, 8/7c), in which Clary finally becomes an official Shadowhunter. But as you’ll see in the video above, it isn’t a happy day for everyone.
Jace, for example, is dividing his time between mourning his parents — you know, the ones he didn’t know about until way after their deaths — and drowning in guilt over Clary’s decision to resurrect him in the Season 2 finale.
“If the Clave ever found out what we did, they’d lock you in the Guard for the rest of your life,” Jace tells Clary in our sneak peek. “No one can know.”
SOURCE: TVLINE
