| Sydney Bucksbaum 31. Oktober 2014 – 08:00
Constantine is going to look very different in tonight’s episode.
Gone is the wide-eyed, damsel-in-distress Liv (Lucy Griffiths). Taking her place is the mysterious, unpredictable Zed (Angelica Celaya), and when John Constantine (Matt Ryan) meets her in episode 2, he won’t know what hit him.
“We got a little tiny glimpse of her at the end of episode 1, but episode 2 is going to be really fun,” Celaya told E! News with a laugh. “She’s just insane. She’s going crazy. Zed is tormented by so many visions and she draws to get them out of her head. There are so many things that she has questions about. And one man starts answering them, Constantine.”
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When executive producers Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer decided to replace Liv with Zed as Constantine‘s new leading lady, they also decided to make a few tweaks to the Zed that comic book fans all know and love.
“The creators behind this decided to make Zed Latina,” Celaya said. “I’m giving her a little bit of sass and attitude. She cuts the B.S. I’m bringing in the sarcasm that I read in Hellblazer, definitely. But I’m making her more street smart and more ‘hood. It’s not very easy for Constantine to manipulate me, and I throw him for a loop.”
But there’s a reason behind Zed’s tough exterior, and that will be explored in later episodes.
“Anybody who is this tough in real life, it’s usually because of something,” Celaya said. “There are layers to her and walls are going up because she’s trying to hide some things. She has to be tough because she’s running away from something really deep and personal.”
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When Constantine and Zed first meet and Zed finally starts getting some answers about who she is and what she can do, Celaya promises that major sparks are going to fly.
“It’s a crash!” she said with a laugh. “It is a crash. A crash of emotions, a crash of thoughts, a crash of everything. It’s like a big WTF moment for Zed. Everything starts making sense, all the dots starts connecting. And Constantine is such a master of talking his way out of things and manipulation, so of course he’s going to think he can manipulate Zed as well. Just give her a second and then bugger off, but Zed is not prepared for that. She’s going to hunt him down like a dog and not take no for an answer.”
Will that turn into anything romantic? “There’s big tension there,” Celaya teased. “They can’t keep their eyes off of each other! But I can’t say more than that. With everything that’s going on with both of them, Zed feels protection and camaraderie and admiration for Constantine as they fight the rising darkness and evil. Within that, of course it’s tough when you’re battling life and death and heaven and hell to have something going on there!”
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Hey, we wouldn’t put it past these two powerful souls, especially since both Celaya and Ryan told us that Zed and Constantine are going to have a confrontational relationship.
“They both believe in the greater good of humanity and they’re going to team up to go against the rising darkness but because Zed believes in mankind and believes that people can be good and they deserve a second chance, that’s when they butt heads,” Celaya said. “That’s when Constantine is more practical. Zed feels more than she should because she knows people’s true emotions, whether they’re lying or telling the truth, things from their past or future just by touching them. That affects how she sees a certain situation vs. John who is very practical. John thinks with his head while Zed thinks with her heart, and she will stand up to him for what she believes in.”
Constantine airs Fridays at 10 p.m. on NBC.
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