Warning: This article contains spoilers about episodes 4 and 5 ofThe Wildsseason 2.
SARAH STREICHER:Gretchen is just waiting with bated breath for these young men to fail.
Based on that, I think we started circling ideas of how that could occur.
Alex Fitzalan, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Nicholas Coombe, Aidan Laprete, Charles Alexander, and Tanner Ray Rook on The Wilds.Kane Skennar/Prime Video
Things are very complicated and people are complicated.
What do you hope people take away from watching the assault and its aftermath?
I don’t know if it’s a lesson, but I hope that’s something that people feel.
The new group of guys on ‘The Wilds’ season 2.Kane Skennar/Prime Video
Does he feel any remorse for his actions?
Because it doesn’t seem like it…
HARRIS:I think, strangely, he might.
Alex wanted to play this part with such care and nuance.
That’s beautifully put.
Do the parents know the truth about what they signed their kids up for?
The fake plane crash, all the injuries, the assault, etc.?
She better be meticulously keeping track of these, though, because it’s quite a web.
What’s Gretchen’s endgame?
HARRIS:double-check season 3 happens.
STREICHER:[Laughs] Yeah.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
The Wildsseason 2 is now streaming on Prime Video.
