The Westworld Season 2 trailer revealed during the show’s San Diego Comic Con panel is terrifying. You see the chaos Dolores has unraveled and the body count that's piled up. You don’t know who’s a host or a robot.
The trailer begins with the piano playing at the saloon from Westworld ’s first season. Soon after we see Bernard staring at a tiger’s dead body by the water. Maeve looks over the dead bodies at the Westworld facilities. Dolores and Teddy ride horses and shoot at people, more dead bodies, and finally, a bloody Man in Black smiling at the camera.
It’s gonna be a good season.
Anthony Hopkin’s character, Dr. Ford, wasn’t in the teaser so it’s possible he won’t be returning in the show’s second season. But Ford wanted Dolores to kill him; we think he’s playing some sort of game. If he wasn’t, old man William wouldn’t be sticking around for Westworld Season 2.
Simpson, who plays young William in the show, told the panel audience he desperately wanted his character’s romance with Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) to be real. Wood added it was an emotional day when they found out that the Man and Black and William were the same person. Wood and Simpson couldn’t even look at each other on set. Simpson later commented on older William’s mindset and why he’s so cruel.
“Being a slave to one’s own emotions is something only a human can feel. Dolores will never know the way a broken ego-destroyed man will be grasping and reaching for ways to cover up his own anguish,” Simpson said.
However, we’re more interested in what will happen to Bernard this season. He’s aware he’s a host, but the other Westworld employees don’t know his secret. Dr. Ford made sure no one would ever fire Bernard, so he must have an important role to play in Ford’s game. Jeffrey Wright, who plays Bernard on the show, was in attendance at the Westworld panel. Even he didn’t realize what his character would mean to the show until much later on in the production.
“I didn’t appreciate at that time what it meant, but going through the course of the season and into this season I’m starting to understand the opportunity there as an actor and existential metaphor,” Wright told the crowd.
Wright also admitted he trawls Westworld forums on Reddit to figure out what’s going on the show just like the rest of us. Watch the Westworld Season 2 trailer below. Westworld returns to HBO some time in 2018.
