Rueben's Ramblings

Two weeks ago at Comic Con 2014 the entire cast and creative team behind the Lifetime drama Witches of East End took to the stage at the San Diego Convention Center to talk about the show’s second season that has taken on a much darker this year from last season.

The panelists included Julia Ormond (Joanna Beauchamp), Jenna Dewan-Tatum (Freya Beauchamp), Rachel Boston (Ingrid Beauchamp), Madchen Amick (Wendy Beauchamp), Daniel DiTomasso (Killian Gardiner) and Eric Winter (Dash Gardiner) along with executive producers Richard Hatem and Maggie Friedman, who is also the series creator.

After seeing a sneak peek at the first two arcs of this coming Sunday’s episode, the cast and creative team took to the stage and had the following to share about the show:

• As the season progresses, the mysterious romance between Ingrid and the Mandragora (guest star Anthony Konechny), the magical creature that came through the Asgard portal at the end of season one, will be further explored;

• The relationship between Freya and Killian will not get any smoother;

• Julia will still deal with a lot of changes especially with Ingrid moving out;

• While Wendy has a soft spot for her nephew Frederick (new series regular Christian Cooke), she doesn’t trust him and she will work hard to bring the truth to everyone in the family;

• There may be more just friendship between Dash and Ingrid as the season rolls out because, according to Rachel, they have an “interesting connection”;

• The executive producers teased that there will be some deaths, there will be more twists and turns in Freya and Killian’s relationship, there will be more Frederick, the history of the Beauchamp will be explored including more flashbacks; and,

• With Dash and Killian now aware of their powers, there will be “fun twists to explore the dynamic of their abilities,” according to Eric.

During the Q&A section of the panel, Madchen shared that now that Wendy has only one life left she will “have to grow up a little” and perhaps her budding relationship with Tommy (recurring guest star Ignacio Serricchio) will help her along that path.

When asked what storylines they like best to write, Maggie shared that she “loves writing the past life stories” while Richard “enjoys writing for Killian and Eva (recurring guest star Bianca Lawson).

The cast was then asked what it is like to film the spell scenes with the cast all joining that it takes a lot of imagination to visualize the CGI that is added in to the scenes, but sometimes it doesn’t always work out right for them. Madchen, of course, chimed in to joke “so you guys don’t know how to do magic?”

When asked what their favorite scene has been, each cast member shared the following:

• Eric – Blowing up the car
• Daniel – The boat scene from episode two
• Madchen – Any scene where the four witches are together
• Rachel – The storyline with Adam (recurring guest star Jason George)
• Jenna – The boat scene
• Julia – Any scene between Joanna and Wendy

And they also talked briefly about the type of scene they would love to film:

• Rachel – she would love to see Ingrid fly
• Jenna – would love to see a witch fight or Freya kicking some serious ass
• Madchen – she Wendy do some dark voodoo magic
• Daniel and Eric – they would love to see a warlock fight
• Julia – see Joanna struggle with her environmental footprint

To see what happens next on Witches of East End, make sure to tune into Lifetime this Sunday, August 10 at 9/8c.

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