Warning: This article contains spoilers forMayfair Witchesseason 1, episode 8.
Showrunners and executive producers Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford say she’s just getting started.
With her newborn baby in hand, Rowan’s final words of the season cut deep.
Alexandra Daddario as Dr. Rowan Fielding in ‘Mayfair Witches’.Alfonso Bresciani/AMC
All of these different spaces and the generations that came in.
And of course we cut away from it.
So we’re hopefully implying there are others, we couldn’t see them all.
Harry Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair in ‘Mayfair Witches’.Alfonso Bresciani/AMC
That was a real thrill.
MICHELLE ASHFORD: I think it was absolutely thrilling to see where she landed with that.
It felt like a real culmination of eight episodes of her dancing around this thing.
Jack Huston as Lasher and Alexandra Daddario as Dr. Rowan Fielding in ‘Mayfair Witches’.Alfonso Bresciani/AMC
“What is it?
Who am I?”
And then all of a sudden she seems to really land in a very powerful way.
Which scene from the finale was the hardest to film?
We were filming in New Orleans in August.
It was incredibly hot.
There were weather warnings, lightning, and rain most days.
It’s revealed in the finale that Cortland is Rowan’s biological father.
Why was it important to you to save that reveal for the finale?
ASHFORD: It’s also really fun to take a character…
When it’s played by an actor like Harry [Hamlin] who you immediately love, right?
What do you have to say about the debate over Ciprien vs. Lasher?
There were a lot of people who thought about it in the writer’s room as a romantic triangle.
I always thought about it as a power triangle.
Lasher is saying to her: Fulfill your power, take it, own it.
And she’s torn between those two versions of her power.
And ultimately she reaches for the version that Lasher offers.
But we know there’s gonna be a cost to it because Lasher is not all good.
SPALDING: Although it’s really fun to watch people go back and forth.
ASHFORD: Yes, yes, they do.
They get very invested.
The show is renewed for season 2.
What can fans look forward to seeing in the upcoming season?
That’s kind of really the tease more than anything.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
