SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Season 3 finale of FX’s Atlanta“We wanted to end this season or end that episode with the feeling of some things have been addressed, but not necessarily solved,” says Zazie Beetz of tonight’s very Parisian finale of Atlanta’s penultimate season. “I think in Season 4, there’s a continuation of identity searching,” says the actress who plays Van of the Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry and LaKeith Stansfield co-starring FX series.“That is a lifelong journey I think, and it takes on a bit of another context.”A delicate weave of whispers of 1960’s Breathless, 1993’s Killing Zoe, 2016’s Raw and more than a dollop or two of 2001’s Amélie, literally and figuratively, the Glover helmed and Stefani Robinson penned “Tarrare” was a feast of a finale for the March 24 premiering third season.
With a paid “piss kink,” cooked human hands, a “local” POV of Paris, a debauched Alexander Skarsgård as Alexander Skarsgård and a battering baguette, the visceral and agonizing exercise in cloaked identities and vulnerability will certainly loom over Atlanta fans for a while, especially leading into the acclaimed series’ fourth and final season coming this fall.Though some might get stuck on the ghostly post credits scene with Glover’s Earn, a returned bag, a Deftones t-shirt and a chilling photo, at the center of all of it is Beetz’s splintered Van on her own Grand Tour, internally and culturally.
The Emmy nominated Joker and The Harder They Fall alum spoke with me about the enigmatic Season 3 ender and taking Van into a reality of her creation.
Beetz also talked about what to expect for Season 4 and what it was like to say goodbye.DEADLINE: So many things to ask, but first of all, what
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