Paradise: Explanations after episode 7 and this end of the world

James Marsden confirms that even the shooting was hard. “People will watch and say to themselves: ‘Oh, shit. And what would I do in this situation?”

This is what really happened! This week, Disney Plus posted episode 7 of Paradise. Entitled “The Day”, he plunges spectators into the intense drama that rocked the White House, this day when … when it is necessary to remember and what should we understand for President Cal?

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While the world collapses, two key characters, Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond (Julianne Nicholson) and Dr. Gabriela Torabi (Sarah Shahi), guide a group of survivors to the security of this bunker city, Paradise. The episode reveals the catastrophic moment which changed the course of the world, revealing the extreme decisions that led CAL and the others to save only 25,000 people. At the cost of an insurmountable moral dilemma.

During an interview with Variety, Sterling K. Brown (who plays Xavier) and James Marsden (Cal) have returned to this tragic day of Paradise. Brown first explains that Xavier has never known all the extent of Cal’s efforts to try to save his wife:

“If Xavier knew everything that Cal did to make sure that his family could be together, to make sure that the world is saved, I think he would have found thanks to his eyes. I think his lack of recognition towards him is linked to mourning. He lost his life partner, and he had the impression that the president was doubtful compared to that …”

And Brown confirms that the emotional turmoil and the mourning of Xavier obscured his judgment, leading him to misinterpret Cal’s actions. However, he stressed that over time and hindsight, Xavier should end up understanding the president’s sacrifice: “The guy did everything he could. The fact that he even helped build this complex, he saved a lot, from people and potentially the world, which could have stopped existing. If (Xavier) took a step back, he would see it all. “

But why has the president never revealed the truth about “The Day” to his friend and bodyguard?

James Marsden has a theory: “Does he want to become a martyrdom himself? I had this thought too … There are moments when he begins to want to speak to him, and especially in this scene of the first episode, when they are in the room, and Cal asks Xavier if he can forgive him … I think that at that moment, Cal is about to tell him, but he does not want to interrupt the first time when Xavier speaks to him honestly, with fury and passion. “

This episode 7 of Paradise Long said, in any case, on everything that was played that day. A tragic moment, impossible to survive morally. The atmosphere was necessarily heavy during filming and James Marsdenin particular, tells these moral dilemmas that history raises so well:

“It was really intense. It was hard to turn. We felt it on the set, that we really lived in real time. And so much the better. Because that’s what we want, we want the public to feel that. But I would lie if I did not spend every moment asking myself what I would do in this situation, in place of Cal, in front of this moral dilemma: who is very difficult to know? apprehend. “

The episode insists on the need for choice and the weight of survival in a world in ruins. And for the president of Paradise,, “The public is living this in episode 7. People will watch and say to themselves: ‘Oh, shit. And what would I do in this situation?”

Season 1 of Paradise Will end next week on Disney Plus.