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After his brush with death, Runaways‘ Jonah is a new man. Since the very first episode, Jonah has laid decrepit and comatose in Leslie Dean’s private mediation facility at the Church of Gibborim. Now, his youth and vigor have been restored thanks to the lives of young people the Pride sacrificed on his behalf. As it turns out, the Pride’s series of ritualistic sacrifices were all for him, but it’s unclear why the Pride went through the trouble of saving him. Or, for that matter, what he himself wants.

According to Julian McMahon, who plays the mysterious character, we’ll learn more about Jonah’s motivations soon enough. Speaking with CBR, McMahon offered some insight into the character’s personality and explained how his near-death experience will radically alter his outlook on life. He also teased Jonah’s history with the Pride, his interactions with the Runaways and more.

CBR: That was quite an entrance you made at the end of the last episode. Now that we’ve officially met Jonah, what can you tell us about him as a character?

McMahon: You know, Jonah has come into the show specifically, I think, to shift the already kind of moving structure of the show in a direction that we kind of were not anticipating. Inside of the Jonah character, I think we see almost two different characters, because we do a couple flashbacks. I think you saw one last [week], which would have been twenty years earlier, eighteen years earlier or something, where he comes into contact with the parent characters for the first time. So we get to see a few of those different colors, which is really the genesis for the character. He’s very charismatic, kind of brash, kind of businesslike. A “need to accomplish my goals and will do no matter what the cost” type of guy.

Then we get to see the Jonah we travel with through the rest of these episodes, which is the current guy. After going through this near-death experience that he had… he’s had this experience, this kind of rebirth type experience on a pretty consistent basis, and it worked without any issues or whatever. The close call changes this character, who was sane and who we kind of flash back to see from earlier times, to a much more… let’s say conscious, maybe thoughtful, maybe inwardly-thinking kind of guy. However, there is still the guy who feels like he’s meant to accomplish what he sent out to accomplish. You’re getting someone who’s also being challenged emotionally, and that’s kind of the current day character that we get to see in the show.

As seen in the opening sequence of this episode, Jonah has been around for quite some time. How will we see his story unfold over the rest of the season?

So you’re going to get both. I think the show has a few flashbacks. It certainly jumps around time-wise, even the stuff I’m not in, but certainly with my character. The way they wanted to establish who he was originally, particularly in regards to his relationship with the parents. Most of that stuff comes through flashbacks. Obviously the best way to do it! So you get that guy, but then you get the current guy, and as I said he’s I think a different individual, but he’s still coming in to shake up the dynamics of the show and he does that. We also get to reveal different elements of who he is and what relationship he has to everybody. That evolves per episode and kind of gets fuller and deeper as we get into the latter parts of the series.

Which character are you most excited for fans to see Jonah interact with?

Whoa, that’s a tricky question. That’s very tricky. You know, he has a connection with all of them, and they’re all in completely different manners. There’s some moments where you think it’s heading in one direction, then all of a sudden it flips around and heads in the other direction. That, to me, is kind of the most exciting part about it, is playing something that’s — not just character-wise, but storyline-wise — playing something that’s so unpredictable.

For me, it was every episode I got to play with somebody else and all the different characters. There’s some great scenes, actually, I love where we got all the parents and the Jonah character and the dynamics of that is really cool. And then I have the kids! I have this great stuff with all the kids, so I wouldn’t single out any of it. I thought it all had its own place and all had its own dynamics. It was all cool and kind of prevalent to what was propelling the storylines.

Jonah seems to have a special bond with Leslie Dean. What was it like to work so closely to Annie Wersching?

Well that was my first scene on set. I just come into that environment, everybody’s been working together for a while, and she was just an absolute professional. Just completely helpful and supportive and lovely. I couldn’t have asked for a better co-star at that moment in time. We had a great time doing that and obviously that continues throughout the series. She’s just a beautiful and lovely doe, and she was very giving to me. I really appreciate it.

How would you describe his connection to Pride?

So Jonah has had a connection to Pride for a long, long time. His mission has varied, but at the same time stayed reasonably consistent. What happens now, because of this near-death experience and because of his kind of elevated or heightened sense of… I don’t know whether it’s of himself or it’s the necessity to do things until life passes us by. Whatever that is, it kind of possesses him. It makes things a lot more necessary. It makes things a lot more current. Everything becomes elevated by his desire to accomplish what he needs to quickly, and that kind of propels him to the end of the show.

Jonah is at least partially responsible for the sacrifice of fifteen or more young people. How does he view those deaths?

They’re not good. I mean, that’s kind of funky territory, isn’t it? Like, it’s kind of just weird. How does he look at it? I guess I’ve got two different things, and that is how I look at it, and how does he look at it. I guess he’s been doing it for a while. As he said, there’s so many things going on that I think he looks at it like a necessary evil for survival.

Well, then, how do you look at it?

I think it’s pretty disturbing! [Laughs] You know, it is Marvel and it is from a comic book. You get away with these things a little bit more easily once you put things under that proviso. He’s a character that’s evolving, and all of that kind of stuff adds to the depth of the character and also the depth of the piece and what that means. They’re obviously willing to go to these lengths to have him survive, and that means something. If that means something, who are these people? What does that mean? Why would you have to do that? I mean, what on Earth would make it that necessary, first of all, and secondly, that that’s kind of okay with anybody.

Can you describe a favorite moment or scene from an upcoming episode?

Yeah! I mean, I’ve got to be careful, because I don’t want to give anything away, obviously. There’s two things that I really, really enjoyed. There’s some scenes with Jonah and all of the parents that are just so well written. I haven’t seen the cut of them, so you never know, but it was just so dynamic and funny and sad and interesting. All these kind of things were all written in these couple scenes that we all did together. All of the parents are just such great characters unto themselves that I really… I just remember watching them all when we were performing and thinking, “Oh, this is really fun and interesting and different.” I enjoyed watching it on set, so I’m hoping that it kind of translates to the screen. I’m sure it will.

The other was stuff I did with the kids. Later on, I do have a few scenes with all the kids. Once again, they’re different to the parents, obviously, but they’re all unique individuals, completely different personalities and different looks, different styles and different things. It’s kind of the cover of the comic book, in a way, which I always thought was interesting. It’s kind of that dynamic that I really enjoyed playing with, with the kids.

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