The new time of year of Person of Interest plunge us into a dystopian A.I.-monitored populace . And all of a sudden , Root is the linchpin of everything , as she avail the clandestine Machine Gang . We spill the beans to Amy Acker about Root ’s newfangled part , her flirtation with Shaw , and whether Root will be meeting Samaritan ’s right - hand woman Rousseau .
We were lucky enough to have a one - on - one earphone audience with Amy Acker in the first place today , and here ’s what she told us .
Now that Finch has stepped back a bit , is Root the new leader of the Machine mob ? Is she ring the dead reckoning now ?
Well , I believe she ’s definitely the Machine ’s champion , so at least now while everybody ’s in concealing , and just come out to figure out the Machine ’s still aware and still has a plan , I guess she ’s there to check that everyone knows that we have the Machine , and we still have to fight for her .
Is her relationship with the Machine evolving ? Is she still her own person , or is she just becoming an extension of the Machine ?
It ’s interesting , because I recall you may see that we ’ve all had to lay low for a minuscule bit , and I think that it ’s exciting to find out what ’s Root having to do without having all of the information she was once give . She ’s having to make decisions on her own as well , so how does that shape up ?
She still has the Machine in her ear , proper ? She still hears it verbalise to her all the time .
Yes . She ’s still implanted with the Machine .
So plainly the Machine exit too far for Finch when it said they had to drink down a Congressman . Could it ever go too far for Root ? Could it enquire her to do something she ’s not willing to do ?
You know how it seemed like , with the speech that I gave [ Finch ] at the get-go of the season … I do believe that biography is worth fight for . But also , I keep differentiate him that sacrifices have to be made if we ’re going to win this . There ’s really no other alternative . So I think that would be an exciting thing to explore , as the season goes on — if something were to come about that made Root question that . But as of now , she ’s staying impregnable [ and believe ] that the Machine can do no wrong .
In fact , the Machine had to pull Root back , when it put her in the mental institution and tried to learn her that cleanup is wrong .
Yes . We really showed the transformation and what had happened with her last season — the journeying , and everything that being faced with the Machine and learning the lessons the Machine was trying to instruct her [ meant ] . It seems that that really come full circle , and Root … started to think about [ the ethics of killing . ] And it fundamentally say the opponent of what I ’d always believed . It was like , ‘ Oh . People do switch . ’ She ’s in spades learned something from this … .
There was a turning pointedness , probably around sequence 17 last year , when she has to resolve between stopping Decima and preserve a guy ’s life , and she in the end chose to save the guy ’s spirit . And I recall any fourth dimension before that , that would not have been the choice she made . And I sort of was tattle about [ Root ’s past tense , and how she ’s ] unquestionably done bad affair … So I think now that [ Root ’s ] recollect about not bolt down , that ’s a enceinte remainder .
So in the season premiere , we fill Martine Rousseau , the blonde cleaning lady who seems to be work on for Samaritan . Is she the anti - Root ? Are you guys going to forgather at some dot ?
I hope so , yeah . From what I have gathered , especially from what she did in the fender , it seems like she is sort of the one - military personnel army of Samaritan right now . She is Samaritan ’s eye on the ground , and the human activeness of Samaritan seem , at this stage , to have been passed over from Greer to her .
So you do n’t know if Root and she are go to meet ?
It seems like they should . I hope so . [ Laughs ] I sense like they ’d have a good conversation , unless one of them obliterate the other one first .
Does Root still have her own work party , like with the hacker she rescued and material ? Are they still out there ?
We have n’t talked about them yet this time of year , but it seemed like at the ending of last season , they were being station somewhere to make certain they were good . So if we necessitate them at some period , they would be available . So I desire they hail back . That was really fun , having all those unlike characters .
Is Root going to keep go to the make - up counter to get makeovers from Shaw ? Or is Shaw done with the makeup counter now that she ’s a criminal ?
I think we have some more make-up coming . Yeah . And [ Shaw ] ’s at workplace , so she ca n’t leave when I come to get her .
It seems like it ’s gotten more and more flirtatious every time you guys are on covert together .
We have had a lot of play with it . Even during that first scene where we met , where I ’m like obtain an branding iron to her , and we were like , “ How did this reverse into a flirty sexual thing ? ” I do n’t know — we made it come about , or it was directed that way . So then , it ’s been a fun thing to play with the character … Especially for me , getting to flirt with Shaw , because I know that she hates it , or there are time when it seems like she almost wants to express joy , but she ca n’t because she ’s Shaw . It ’s just a sport dynamic to playact with .
Do you guys ever interest about going too far with the romantic / sexual tension and having to be pulled back ? Do you ever get tell to dial it back ?
No … A lot of times , we ’ll do [ a scene ] a distich of different way . And it seems like they usually go with the flirtatious [ translation ] . They make that their choice .
Are you going to be back on Agents of SHIELD at some point ?
I have no idea . They have n’t attain out to me . But I plainly screw all those hoi polloi , so that would be fun .
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