Jennifer Connelly Interview: Snowpiercer Season 3
Warning: This Interview Contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Snowpiercer Season 3, Episode 9 — «A Beacon For Us All»
Melanie Cavill (Jennifer Connelly) returned toSnowpiercer in season 3, episode 9 and she immediately derailed Andre Layton's (Daveed Diggs) dream of taking the passengers to New Eden. Believed dead for most of Snowpiercer season 3, Melanie was miraculously rescued and reunited with her loved ones, including her daughter Alex (Rowan Blanchard) and her love interest, Bennett Knox (Iddo Goldberg). But when Melanie realizes that Layton lied to Snowpiercer about New Eden, she takes matters into her own hands and sabotages her frenemy to save the train in a jaw-dropping twist.
Screen Rant interviewed Jennifer Connelly about why she and her character were absent for much of Snowpiercer seasons 2 and 3, working with Rowan Blanchard, and why Melanie turned on Layton, which sets up Snowpiercer's season 3 finale.
Related: Snowpiercer: How Melanie Could Still Be Alive?
Screen Rant: Before we talk about episode 9, I want to ask you how you reacted when you found out you and Melanie would be gone for most of seasons 2 and 3?
Jennifer Connelly: It was more of a conversation that we had together. So it wasn't a revelation, it was more the result of a process of conversation about what would happen with Mel and the storyline.
Was it purely a creative decision or did you have scheduling conflicts?
Jennifer Connelly: I think it was a creative decision.
How did it feel to be officially back as Melanie, not just a dream version of Melanie? To slip back into her skin after so long?
Jennifer Connelly: I really enjoyed [episode 4] where she comes and she helps push Alex towards confronting this part of her past and sort of walks beside
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