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Jacob Anderson on Armand

Source: Polish youtube channel Serialowa

Jacob Anderson brings up some great points about the character of Armand, and why he is the way he is, given his traumatic past. And he talks about why it's reductive to reduce characters to just good or evil.

Transcript:

I do want to say something about Armand quickly, because I give Armand so much shit when I talk about the show all the time. And he is probably the character that I'm like, Jacob, I watch, and I'm like, that guy gets on my nerves. Like he just seems to kind of get things wrong at every stage. But I think something that this season goes into in a really powerful way, and I think kind of reframes a lot of what you see of him before is that like, he's almost… he's what happens if you go through some of the worst like personal atrocities from a very young age. Like, so much cruelty is inflicted on you, and then you're just alone. And he tries to… I feel like Armand is continually trying to find community. And in one way it like it manifests in like religious fundamentalism and like you know, this really dark sort of cult kind of thing, that he tries to like control people. And then he just sort of tries to find… like Louis becomes like a bit of a weird sort of religious figure to him at some point. And then he's trying to recreate this… this horrific dynamic that was inflicted on him from a very young age. And so I think there is a way that you can look at Armand and be like that guy's evil, his behaviour's not cool on any level. But I think something that our show does really well is that all of these… there is a version of every single one of these characters, including Claudia, including Madeleine even. They would be the villain in a lesser story. But we spend the time on getting to know all of these characters and understanding why they make the decisions they make. And I think it's quite easy to sort of pin the 'villain pin' on Armand. And I am guilty of doing it myself. But actually like between Assad and Rolin and Hannah, I think he becomes, in this season, an even more fully formed, fully understandable character.

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