Peacock’s Twisted Metal is heading towards its absolutely bonkers titular race in season two. Who will survive Calypso’s chaos and get their wish? Well, you’ll have to follow this wild ride when Twisted Metal season two returns on July 31. But, before you do that, let’s take a trip back to August 2024. Nerdist and several other outlets went on a mission to Toronto, Canada to check out Twisted Metal’s delightfully gnarly set. The cast and crew were right in the middle of filming several scenes, some of which are related to the Twisted Metal competition itself.
Things were built with meticulous care only to be set ablaze or crushed. It was loud, frenzied, and absolutely fun to traverse through a taste of this apocalyptic world. In season one, we met John (Anthony Mackie), an extremely chatty and witty milkman with amnesia, and Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz), an initially reserved yet hyper violent woman who cannot forget her trauma.
The pair developed a friendship turned pseudo-romance as they go on a long journey to achieve John’s mission to retrieve a package in exchange for a more stable life. The end of season one doesn’t give them a happily ever after, with Quiet forcing John to leave her outside of New San Francisco while he later discovers that he will have to race in a tournament that he didn’t sign up for.
Twisted Metal Season 2: College Level Confusion and Missing Madness
Twisted Metal season two will bring John and Quiet back in each other’s spheres after seven months apart as they face a variety of individual internal and external challenges. John aims to connect with Dollface, his raucous sibling whom he cannot remember, while Quiet has her own noble reason for getting into the tournament and winning it all. And, we all know that nothing will stand in the way of her goal, including John.
The reunion between this loveable pair will probably be a little more bitter than sweet. “I think their partnership kind of gets tested over and over again in season one,” Beatriz told us during a roundtable interview. “You’re sort of seeing them actually become partners and not sure if they can trust each other. And then there’s a moment really in season one where the trust is solidified and season two starts to explore well, what happens when, for lack of a better parallel, what happens when you go away for your first semester of college and you and your sweet high school love are like, ‘Let’s stay together.’ And then you see each other for the first time on Christmas break and you’re like, ‘You’re so different… Are you still the one?’”
The “high school to college” comparisons extend even further when it comes to John’s personal evolution. As we all know, he wasn’t the most emotionally mature dude in season one but he did experience a bevy of changes. From caring about someone other than himself to integrating into a city with structure and rules, the John we will see in season two is still struggling to adapt in season two.
“He was like an adult in a playland that just happened to be the world and now he’s in a structured complex,” Mackie affirms to the group. “That’s his new reality. So it’s almost like when you left for college and then during those holidays, you would come back home and lose your f**king mind… That’s kind of become John’s life right now. He’s moved into this structured world, but he still yearns to be the old John. The fun of being the milkman, the wide open space. So it’s just learning the two ways of existing and conforming to the new while craving the old.”
Twisted Metal‘s Practical Stunts With Lots of “Tom Cruise” S**t
Well, John will get a taste of that old and thrilling life back with the Twisted Metal tournament. With a bevy of new characters, demolition derby ready vehicles, and elaborate sequences, this season will take things to a new level with high-octane action that isn’t CGI-driven.
“The car team is really going above and beyond and a lot of the stuff, amazingly we use CGI as little as possible,” Mackie affirmed. “I feel like it gives it a really cool, interesting look. It gives it a feel that you normally wouldn’t get in something like this… last year we had a really great cast and this year I feel like we kind of stepped up and got really good new actors. I’m excited for them and their performances. To get [Calypso actor] Anthony Carrigan was a huge coup… It was just a great opportunity to pepper the cast with new, interesting, fun, and really good actors.”
Mackie partners with his stunt driver and stunt man to bring things to life in the safest way possible. He would do them himself but, well, he was told to basically sit the f**k down. And honestly, he’s okay with sticking to the script and looking cool in scenes where everything isn’t on fire.
“I have a great stunt man and a great stunt driver and, as a team, the three of us work really well together,” he said. “We look out for each other and make sure none of us are blown up. They’ve made it very clear to leave Tom Cruise sh*t to Tom Cruise. There’s no reason to be out here flipping cars… Last week, we were doing this stunt and my driver Aaron did his first roll and he literally just blew up a car and rolled down the street. So I was like, ‘Man, I can do that.’ …He showed me a video. He is like, ‘Look at my kids. Do you love my kids? Remember the gift you sent my kids? Okay, sit the f**k down.”
Quiet Kicks A** and Runs Naked in Diesel City?!
Beatriz, who also listens to her stunt team like a sane person, says there will be plenty of bombastic moments for fans to witness. And yeah, there’s more sex, too. But that’s not the focus here. Quiet is a sharper and more efficient driver and we will get to see how her skillset matches up against her opponents. Beatriz said, “There’s maybe five or six really heavy action episodes this season, and the stunts are really insane. It’s a lot of practical stunts this time around. It’s a lot more time spent in the cars, and it’s a lot of time seeing Quiet as a driver and kicking a**. A lot of a**. It’s pretty cool.”
If you’re a Twisted Metal game fan, then you know about Diesel City. It’s an Extra Large Map with large, dilapidated, and often gutted buildings near Los Angeles. That locale will come to life in season two and it is going to involve a bats**t heist, according to Beatriz.
“Diesel City is… I don’t even know how to describe it,” she began. “It was absolutely manic, f**king ridiculous. Bananas. Off the wall. How do I even describe it?!? I’ll say this. There was probably a day and a half where I was mostly naked, which was highly embarrassing… So there was shit blowing up. There was a vault on fire. There was just running through mostly abandoned buildings trying to not get hit over the head with missiles. I mean, it was shenanigans… Before the tournament, you sort of need to level up your car… You want your car to be as ready to go as possible. But how do you get weapons in this world if you don’t have money? How do you get them? Why, you steal them!”
So, there you have it. Awkward relationships, naked heists, a** kicking, Tom Cruise s**t, and so much more come together to create the weird world of Twisted Metal season two. Let’s see how John and Quiet rise to the challenge and maybe work together to demolish the competition.
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