Catch Up With the Cast of 'The Umbrella Academy' At the LA Premiere!

Gayety

Gayety spoke with the cast of the iconic Netflix series "The Umbrella Academy" about filming, super powers, and saying goodbye!   The Umbrella Academy season 4 is now streaming on Netflix.

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00:00My name is Patrice Goodman and I played Dot on Umbrella Academy.

00:05Hi, I'm Victoria Sawal.

00:06Yeah, I'm Jordan Claire Robbins. I am lucky to play Grace on the Umbrella Academy, aka Mom.

00:11My experience with the Umbrella Academy has been absolutely phenomenal. A dream come true.

00:16My experience with the show was one of change and evolution because I,

00:21you know, I played this character for, you know, I went in for a couple of days and then they kept

00:26on calling me back and it was just watching the character evolve was a delight.

00:31It was my first real big television job. I grew up on this show. I learned really how to act on

00:38the show. And I made a family on the show. It's meant everything and it's very, very sad to say

00:46goodbye.

00:47It's changed my life. Honestly, it's been one of the most beautiful experiences. It's

00:50seven years of my life. It feels very surreal that it's over. And I just feel very honored

00:55that I got this. I got to be a part of this.

00:58Really great. You know, I love these guys. I love every single one of them. Like, you know,

01:02they're my family. So to come and get to celebrate this together is epic, actually. Nothing short of.

01:08If you could wake up tomorrow with superpowers, which one would you want to have?

01:14Teleportation, so I can come here more often.

01:17This spot specifically?

01:18This spot specifically, because it's going to mean tons to me.

01:21Yeah.

01:22I say flying just because it seems so fun, but I think teleportation would probably be the most.

01:26Efficient.

01:27Yeah, I think I would. I would finally be on time if I could do that.

01:33Instantaneously wash and dry my clothes. Yeah, like, boom.

01:38I was thinking the same like fashion, like I was like, pick out my clothes,

01:41like wake up and it's just on.

01:43It's just folded right next to your bed.

01:45We did so good today.

01:46But this was an effort, right?

01:48The superpower question comes with good things and comes with bad things.

01:53So you don't want to fly because, you know, you get bugs stuck in your teeth and you don't want to,

01:57you know, you don't want to be like do telekinesis because

02:01that can just be, you know, tired after a while.

02:04With great power comes great responsibility.

02:06You have to have the responsibility. So maybe I'll pick a minor superpower,

02:11which is to always have the cold side of the pillow.

02:14What are you most excited? We're going to be with a live audience tonight reacting

02:18to the first episode. So what are you excited for everyone to kind of see tonight?

02:23When we all get back together. Yeah.

02:26I think that's when it's going to be, you know,

02:28hopefully someone doesn't throw a firework at the screen, you know?

02:32Yeah, the excitement, you know, metaphorically.

02:36It'll be me. Don't tell them.

02:38It is. Hopefully it is.

02:39It's been six years since the end of season three and kind of get introduced to each of

02:44the characters and where they're at. And then, boom, they're back together.

02:47And I think when the family's back, magic happens.

02:50Yeah. You know what?

02:52Although I can't say much, I know that everybody's going to be really pleased

02:55with what this season has to offer. It's going to answer so many fan questions.

03:00I am telling you, watch every bit, savor every bit because it's the finale.

03:06Yeah. What was your reaction to reading the

03:08scripts for this final season and get to read the script?

03:12The scripts are very secretive. And as a minor character or as like as a

03:18recurring character, I didn't get to read them.

03:22Watching the show is always the most fun because I had no idea which scenes I were,

03:27you know, what was helping and what was happening in the rest of the show.

03:30So it's delightful.

03:32I was overwhelmed, I think, as you're meant to be as someone reading the final

03:37episode of a show you've been working on for over four years by a long shot.

03:44Yeah, you never know when reading the scripts how it's going to turn out

03:48because making movies and television is such a collaborative art form.

03:53It's really no one person.

03:55The director or showrunner has like the most sort of control over how things go.

03:59But if a show is good, it is because of everyone.

04:02So you never know how it's going to turn out.

04:05I can say, though, that when I saw the final episode, it sent me into a state of gratitude

04:12and the sort of euphoric looking back at everything and happiness and sadness

04:18because it's change. I don't think anyone really likes change.

04:24You know, you feel a lot of things.

04:26You know, I wasn't surprised. Steve had already told us that

04:29it was going to end.

04:33So when I got the pages, I was just kind of hoping that it was a joke.

04:37I was kind of hoping that he was like, psych, here are the actual pages,

04:40because he gives us the last three pages pretty much the day before we shoot it.

04:45Yeah. But, you know, when we shot it, I just felt like closure,

04:49you know, at least for the storyline.

04:51For me, I don't even it doesn't feel like it's over yet.

04:54When do you think that will really set in?

04:57I think when Netflix comes out with the next show,

04:59then it'll be like, oh, man, everyone forgot about us.

05:01It's time to, you know, move on.

05:04So I'll be honest, I don't actually know a whole lot about season four.

05:07What I do know is where I came in, which is a really beautiful

05:12ending that I think honors the journey of everyone.

05:17And was there anything that was difficult to film this time around for this season?

05:21My striptease.

05:23Just emotionally, emotionally difficult.

05:26What do you think makes this series so special that it gets such a big fan reaction?

05:33I think humanizing superheroes.

05:35It's one of the first shows that did that for me.

05:37And I'm a big superhero movie fan.

05:40So I think the human aspect of the relationships and the dysfunction.

05:45I don't think it takes itself too seriously.

05:48I think family, I mean, even though it's superheroes,

05:51what's so beautiful about it is that it's not really about the power so much as it's about

05:54the struggle of being human, the struggle of embracing who you are, of owning who you are,

05:59of connecting with difficult family members, of letting go of control.

06:04They're all very human things that we struggle with day to day.

06:06So I think it's the humanity.

06:08First of all, I believe it stayed really close to the spirit of the comic book.

06:16And I think that I think they were really careful to

06:26really reproduce that and honor it.

06:29It was always amazing for me to go to set and see what they had built up in Toronto.

06:35Our Toronto crews worked so hard and so diligently

06:38to make every little detail perfect and watchable.

06:43And they were just as careful on the set as they were with the actors,

06:47as they were with the script.

06:48So I think it was the love and passion.

06:51What are you most upset to see after closing this chapter?

06:55What are you going to miss the most?

06:58I fell in love with Toronto, really.

07:00You know, that city.

07:02I love Canadians.

07:03They're really nice.

07:04I love our crew up there.

07:06They've been with us for six years.

07:07And again, this cast is like family.

07:09So I think just laughing on set every day.

07:12This is such a sad song for this interview.

07:16Like, come on.

07:18Yeah.

07:19Just all the laughs we had on set and just hanging out with each other outside of set.

07:24Yeah.

07:25The show is so much about family.

07:26And I know that the fans really feel the love.

07:28Do you have like a certain fan interaction that really sticks out from your journey here?

07:33There's been quite a few, really.

07:34Yeah, there's ones that have really connected to the show and ones that have like,

07:38I think there's been a couple that I've connected with when I've seen them that

07:42it was like a huge shift in their life where they were in, you know, in a bad place.

07:45And then the show brought them out of that.

07:47For me, that's always really special, you know.

07:50I think just being surprised by how well the show did and how passionate all of our fans are.

07:56Like we have a really emotionally invested core audience.

08:00So I think that's a beautiful thing.

08:03Do you have a message for them, you know, after closing this chapter?

08:08Honestly, it might get sort of lost in people thinking about the show or not,

08:13but it really is because of them that we get to do any of this.

08:18So the only words I thank you.

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