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Interviewer: Has it been difficult for you to keep this secret for a
while? You being here and Joe will return?
James Purefoy: No, not really. You know, whenever anybody asks me if I'm
coming back on Twitter, I just say, "Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe." You know, I
don't engage with it too much.
Interviewer: Now, when did you know you were coming back. When you
actually [inaudible 0:00:18]
James: I've always known I was coming back.
Interviewer: Always known? Okay.
James: Yeah.
Interviewer: From day one?
James: From day one.
Interviewer: Fair enough. Does it impact the way you played the role,
knowing that -
James: I don't think so. I do know there's one word you would attach
to Joe Carroll is he is prepared. He's prepared for any eventuality. He
kind of knows what's going to happen or he figures that if that happens,
then I'll do this. If that happens, I'll do that. He works, he's very
manipulative, and he's kind of, he's got a very far-reaching mind.
Interviewer: The word I was going to use was going to be confident, as
well.
James: And he's supremely confident. There is no doubt about that.
Interviewer: Yes. But his plans do not always go according to plan.
James: Yeah.
Interviewer: Well, when we see him again in whatever capacity will he
be a changed man?
James: I think so. I mean, this show, that what happened was that
things stopped going to plan. And you know, and he is mad, so it's kind of
difficult to apply a normal person's logic to Joe Carroll, because he is
criminally insane; a sociopath, a psychopath. He is mad. So, it's very
difficult for us to apply logic to that. But within his own matter and his
own logic, his own world, he thought he had it figured out, and then things
stopped going according to plan. And I think we pick the show up a year
later now. And he'll have had time to reflect and time to acknowledge where
he went wrong and time to meditate on that. And like a phoenix, he will
rise.
Interviewer: With the same point of view regarding Hardy and
everything?
James: Oh yeah, for sure. I think, you know, perhaps less that it's
Hardy-centric, you know, and more about ***, mischief and mayhem.