Star Cherry Jones of “Foundation” on the most surprising twinning of season 3

Quent ambassador (The history of the servantCherry Jones) is one of Foundation The most intriguing new characters in season three. As an ambassador of the Foundation on Trantor, she spent decades to live alongside the Empire – which is technically her enemy, but she has become quite close to the Cléons, especially brother Dusk (Terrence Mann).

In the episode of last week, “Foundation’s End”, Quent – His first name is Felice, we learn twilight – was horrible while the native planet of the Foundation, New Terminus, fell on the bad mule. Feeling overwhelmed and vulnerable by looking at destruction at a distance, she gave in to her longtime feelings for twilight. She first agreed to settle in the palace to be under her protection … Then things took an intimate turn.

If you thought it may not have been the most politically clever decision for her, well, the winning actor of Tony and Emmy who plays Quent agrees.

“I have my problems as an actor with her having never left the foundation after the explosion of the new terminus,” Jones told IO9 in a recent interview. “I had a little trouble justifying it to leave the herd to enter the palace. I was not particularly comfortable with that as Quent, or as an actor playing Quent. ”

Quent is introduced in season three, which resumes 152 years after the end of season two, so several generations have passed and the relationship between the Foundation and the Empire has become more diplomatic. During a previous season, the foundation idea having an ambassador on Trantor, regularly meeting the Cléons – a little less to have quiet dinners with them – would have been difficult to imagine.

“I think she probably started in politics at the age of 24 and is (has become the assistant of the trantor ambassador,” said Jones, contextualizing the background of her character. “And she was simply incredibly adept. She grew up with the twilight, while he grew up one day at dusk, she was growing in her career. government leave their country of origin and never really come back, and yet remain faithful to the politics of their own country.

As for the Quent and Dusk link, Jones tackled it as something that was forged a long time ago. “I think she probably always had a little crush, probably for her damn, the day of the brother, now twilight,” she said. “She was probably such a fantastic ambassador and such a good Schmoozer that the twilight appreciated his company, and I think that Quent is very clever and well informed about the other billions of planets in the galaxy, and so they had fun with each other.”

She continued. “There are probably not many ambassadors which he was so close to. And it is just the familiarity of having aged together, having lived so together, even if we were on the opposite sides. But she must be a rare woman for having survived so long on Trantor with this group of boys.”

Despite everything – its feelings for twilight, chaos within the foundation even before the new terminus is taken up – we have the impression that Quent is always extremely faithful to the Saldon plan.

“She is only one of those human beings (committed) to make her life count for something bigger than her.” She must be so furious at what’s going on, but she knows what her mission is. “

Quent may not want to realize it, but the spectator knows that twilight is not the tender guy he claims to be. He will Tomp a small animal to death without reason, in a horrible moment, only the spectator can see. Anxiety by his imminent death, or “ascent”, surely plays a role in his actions, because his end is only a few days from the moment we arrive at episode seven.

“More than her own sorrow – whatever the level that is for her with him, which must be great because she knows him forever and has obviously had feelings for him forever – I think his concern is how he takes care of her, because it is he who must enter the center of this large circle and cook,” she said. “The world will continue; it will get out of it, but Quinn will always be in it, trying to understand what in the world do about the mule. So she has a lot on her plate.”

Jones is a great presence, but his stage partner throughout Foundation is up to it.

“For me, working with people is only the net profit. This is camaraderie. And Terry and I have a very similar context,” said Jones. “He was in musical theater all his life, and I was in the theater almost all my life, both in New York. So we had a similar vocabulary and we knew many people in common. So commander and that voice … But watching him become so bad was simply horrible. »»

Foundation Returns this Friday with a new episode on Apple TV +.

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