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And this whole season we all been about complaining jax being soft, my dude went ice cold and shut everyone up
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You better listen to him Grizz...he means business.
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Wild episode. Certain aspects of the show have been predictable but I didn't see it going down like that.
Of course now with everything ****** up and Galen & Clay dead, the Feds are still gonna be on their back.
I missed it though...no show next week?
Of course now with everything ****** up and Galen & Clay dead, the Feds are still gonna be on their back.
I missed it though...no show next week?
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Next show is dec 3rd yes
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The murders is gonna be put on Conners. Jax switched guns when he took it away the first time. They are probably gonna match the bullets to the shot he fired on the wall.
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Episode was nuts.
When Unser told Gemma he loved her, then walks in on her and nero in bed with Abel
Never liked Galen, good riddance.
Hated Clay too, but was a little sad seeing him go
Great episode
When Unser told Gemma he loved her, then walks in on her and nero in bed with Abel
Never liked Galen, good riddance.
Hated Clay too, but was a little sad seeing him go
Great episode
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HOLY ****
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It plays 10pm westcoast time son. Then a replay right after
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BODIES. BODIES EVERYWHERE.
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best episode i've seen.
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Definitely one of the best 60 minutes of television in 2013.
Eff everyone Team Jax for life. Dude has the balls to do what no one else would in that club.
Now that's a ******g EPISODE
And millions of people keep watching that washed up walking dead bullcrap recycling the same damn story line in the same damn prison setting for over 2 years... *yawn*...
This is suspense. This is action. This is story line. This is ******g edge of your seat entertainment.
Love this damn show.
P.S. Even though I hated clay for everything he's done the last few seasons, it was still sad to see him go. Nice to see him go out like a G tho, at the end of the day it may not be enough to make up for all the evil he's done but he stood there and let them take his
Life for the good of the club. No begging no scheming. He could of make one last effort to scram but he didn't. Respect for That.
Eff everyone Team Jax for life. Dude has the balls to do what no one else would in that club.
Now that's a ******g EPISODE
And millions of people keep watching that washed up walking dead bullcrap recycling the same damn story line in the same damn prison setting for over 2 years... *yawn*...
This is suspense. This is action. This is story line. This is ******g edge of your seat entertainment.
Love this damn show.
P.S. Even though I hated clay for everything he's done the last few seasons, it was still sad to see him go. Nice to see him go out like a G tho, at the end of the day it may not be enough to make up for all the evil he's done but he stood there and let them take his
Life for the good of the club. No begging no scheming. He could of make one last effort to scram but he didn't. Respect for That.
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Interview with Ron Pearlman about Clay's death.
If you caught tonight’s episode of Sons of Anarchy on FX, you witnessed the inevitable death of a major character. Fortunately, EW was on the set of the actor’s last day to snag an exclusive interview.
Related
Sons of Anarchy: See Full Coverage 'SOA' creator Kurt Sutter talks about this week's shocking death -- EXCLUSIVE 'Sons of Anarchy' recap: End of an Era
But first, a spoiler alert! Don’t read beyond the jump if you haven’t watched the gut-wrenching episode.
Clay Morrow may have deserved to die, but there probably isn’t a fan who was completely eager to see the big guy go — Ron Perlman was that good at playing the ruthless ex-president of SAMCRO. “As much as people say that they want Clay dead, they don’t want Clay dead,” creator Kurt Sutter told EW. “They want to see it be complicated. They want to see how Gemma feels about betraying Clay. They want to see how Juice feels about betraying. They want to see that play out even though they, in their gut, they know the guy should be dead.” (For more from Sutter about Clay’s passing, click here.)
EW met up with Perlman on his final day of production to talk about his shocking scene, the past six seasons, and what’s next for his career.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Were you told at the beginning of the season about your impending death?
RON PERLMAN: Yeah. There was not a whole lot that was shared in terms of how it would play out. I’ve always been a fan of not knowing, of getting the scripts and dealing with what I see when I see it. So I was okay with not knowing what it was going to look like. Kurt Sutter did mention that Clay would be seeking some sort of personal redemption. I didn’t know how that was going to play out, whether it was going to be a material kind where he was given back some of the things that were taken from him or just a spiritual kind, where he was going to commit some sort of act of self-sacrifice.
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Were you surprised to die this season?
I’m playing Claudius, and Claudius doesn’t make it to Act 5. So I was ready for this. If it’s an examination of power, you have to see the new king when he’s not mirrored by the resonances of the old king. You have to see what he does when he stands alone in the world. And as long as Clay is around, he can’t do that.
Do you think Kurt made a mistake by talking openly about how the drama was inspired by Hamlet? It almost made it easy to predict your death this season.
Anything you’re going to assume about Sons of Anarchy is pure speculation. We’ve already seen that Hamlet is the superstructure … the guy who kills the king and marries the queen and takes over the crown. The stepson who’s trying to put all this together with the help of these voices that are visiting him in the form of the manuscript. But we’ve already broken many, many of the patterns of Hamlet itself. Now that I’ve reached the end of my cycle, I actually think the thing that fascinates Kurt the most is the examination of the corruptible nature of power. No matter what you set out to do and no matter how purely you set out to reinvent, you make the same mistakes your forebears made. When you put on that crown, some sh– happens and it ain’t pretty and it ain’t ordered and it almost controls you. I wouldn’t be surprised if the seventh season is going to really shine a light on the price that Jax Teller plays, simply because he’s risen to this level of power.
What’s it like around the set when someone dies?
It’s a very traditional right of passage. There’s mourning. When the dynamic of a family is asked to change, people scratch their heads. Is this necessary? People get very sad, a little frustrated. Sometimes people go, who’s next? There’s an examination of how we’re all just passing through here. You have to cherish every moment because we’re already in rarefied air that we’ve made it this far.
Did you have a wish on how you wanted to die?
I just wanted it to be connected to something completely unselfish. This is a sociopathic world. We’re not nice guys. We’re outlaws. We’re ruthless.
What do you think Gemma was thinking while she saw Clay getting gunned down?
She’s got to be harboring some feelings of guilt. She’s responsible for all of this. She’s the one who tagged Clay to kill John Teller. Everybody knows it. And he’s going out, looking at her going, I love you. I’m not mad at you. I wouldn’t change a thing. That’s the redemption. I’m not mad at you after all this. You’re the only thing that matters.
Talk about Clay’s state of mind this season.
I’ve lost everything except my life. I’ve lost Gemma. I’ve lost the club. I’ve lost every friend I ever made. I’ve lost all my material, earthly goods. Every single thing that I spent my entire life working to obtain has been taken from me except for my life. So that puts you in some sort of contemplative state …. I always wanted to play a hero. I always wanted to find, no matter how nefarious, no matter how dark, no matter how questionable the things that Clay did were, I always needed to think that I was playing a hero.
Hero? You beat up Gemma! What do you recall of that scene?
That was difficult. Physical violence between a man and woman is very hard for me to play. When I had to kill Piney … you know, Ron didn’t want to kill Bill Lucking but Clay had to kill Piney. That was one of those days you just — God give me the strength to get though this when all I want to do is give this guy a hug. The scene where Ryan realizes that I’ve killed his father, comes to get me and actually shoots me twice. That was a really difficult day because Ryan Hurst was so in the zone and he was so angry and so hurt. Also, Clay could have died right there because that was Opie’s objective. That was a very big challenge to shoot.
You were pretty vocal last season about how Kurt had written Clay.
I started to have trouble with the stuff that I was being asked to do because I couldn’t find a way that I can justify it to myself. I had to resign myself to playing this guy in a detached way. Looking back in hindsight, I’ve come up with this treatise: Clay lost his way because he was in a position where the pressure got to him and he started blurring the lines on a daily basis between right and wrong until wrong and right almost looked the same. He was completely on his own. What can he do to put his house in order and return back to the guy who became the leader? He was a guy that knew how to think for everybody else and was ruthless enough to carry out whatever one needed to carry out in a violent outlaw world. That was his job.
What has this show meant to your career?
I don’t know. I made some friends that are lifelong that I will carry with me to the end of my days. So it’s been really good.
Were you part of the off-camera brotherhood that formed?
There were a lot of drunken evenings in bars with the boys that sit around the table. Some of the best nights of my life, especially in the first three or four seasons, before it all started to splinter off. But I’m 63 and all the other guys are in their 20s, 30s, 40s. So, I’m a different generation. I was always Clay Morrow, the ******* in the club. So it was always the boss against the workers. But those five … Kim Coates, Theo Rossi, Charlie Hunnam, Mark Boone Junior, Tommy Flanagan … we’ve been partying, officiating at each others weddings, kissing each others babies when they’re born. A lot of water has gone under this bridge and we really, really, really like each other a lot, as much as I’ve ever liked a company of guys.
Are you taking anything from the set?
Just the memories. I don’t want a thing. I have never taken anything. I’ve taken a couple of things from movies. I tried to steal the shoes from Pacific Rim because they were the coolest f–kin’ shoes anybody’s ever seen. They wouldn’t let me keep them. They were made out of gold. They were actually made out of gold.
So how does it feel saying goodbye?
I feel really proud of who I was in this whole cockamamie caravan. It’s been a little bit of a journey coming to full peace with the fact that I’m having to say an early good-bye. I mean I’m there. I’m already about 700 miles down the road in terms of what’s next for me. So, I’m incredibly excited about what lies ahead. And, I’m very proud of what we’ve left here. I’m very proud of it.
What’s your fondest memory?
I remember the chapel scenes. When I’m sitting on my rocking chair in the old age home and all the other actors are sitting there thinking about great moments in their lives, I’ll be thinking about the chapel scenes with Tig on my right and Jax on my left, me at the head of the table where I’m smoking cigars and we’re making plans, kicking *** and taking names. That’s what I’m gonna remember about the show because that , to me, was quintessential Sons of Anarchy.
Related
Sons of Anarchy: See Full Coverage 'SOA' creator Kurt Sutter talks about this week's shocking death -- EXCLUSIVE 'Sons of Anarchy' recap: End of an Era
But first, a spoiler alert! Don’t read beyond the jump if you haven’t watched the gut-wrenching episode.
Clay Morrow may have deserved to die, but there probably isn’t a fan who was completely eager to see the big guy go — Ron Perlman was that good at playing the ruthless ex-president of SAMCRO. “As much as people say that they want Clay dead, they don’t want Clay dead,” creator Kurt Sutter told EW. “They want to see it be complicated. They want to see how Gemma feels about betraying Clay. They want to see how Juice feels about betraying. They want to see that play out even though they, in their gut, they know the guy should be dead.” (For more from Sutter about Clay’s passing, click here.)
EW met up with Perlman on his final day of production to talk about his shocking scene, the past six seasons, and what’s next for his career.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Were you told at the beginning of the season about your impending death?
RON PERLMAN: Yeah. There was not a whole lot that was shared in terms of how it would play out. I’ve always been a fan of not knowing, of getting the scripts and dealing with what I see when I see it. So I was okay with not knowing what it was going to look like. Kurt Sutter did mention that Clay would be seeking some sort of personal redemption. I didn’t know how that was going to play out, whether it was going to be a material kind where he was given back some of the things that were taken from him or just a spiritual kind, where he was going to commit some sort of act of self-sacrifice.
GET MORE EW: Subscribe to the magazine for only 33¢ an issue!
Were you surprised to die this season?
I’m playing Claudius, and Claudius doesn’t make it to Act 5. So I was ready for this. If it’s an examination of power, you have to see the new king when he’s not mirrored by the resonances of the old king. You have to see what he does when he stands alone in the world. And as long as Clay is around, he can’t do that.
Do you think Kurt made a mistake by talking openly about how the drama was inspired by Hamlet? It almost made it easy to predict your death this season.
Anything you’re going to assume about Sons of Anarchy is pure speculation. We’ve already seen that Hamlet is the superstructure … the guy who kills the king and marries the queen and takes over the crown. The stepson who’s trying to put all this together with the help of these voices that are visiting him in the form of the manuscript. But we’ve already broken many, many of the patterns of Hamlet itself. Now that I’ve reached the end of my cycle, I actually think the thing that fascinates Kurt the most is the examination of the corruptible nature of power. No matter what you set out to do and no matter how purely you set out to reinvent, you make the same mistakes your forebears made. When you put on that crown, some sh– happens and it ain’t pretty and it ain’t ordered and it almost controls you. I wouldn’t be surprised if the seventh season is going to really shine a light on the price that Jax Teller plays, simply because he’s risen to this level of power.
What’s it like around the set when someone dies?
It’s a very traditional right of passage. There’s mourning. When the dynamic of a family is asked to change, people scratch their heads. Is this necessary? People get very sad, a little frustrated. Sometimes people go, who’s next? There’s an examination of how we’re all just passing through here. You have to cherish every moment because we’re already in rarefied air that we’ve made it this far.
Did you have a wish on how you wanted to die?
I just wanted it to be connected to something completely unselfish. This is a sociopathic world. We’re not nice guys. We’re outlaws. We’re ruthless.
What do you think Gemma was thinking while she saw Clay getting gunned down?
She’s got to be harboring some feelings of guilt. She’s responsible for all of this. She’s the one who tagged Clay to kill John Teller. Everybody knows it. And he’s going out, looking at her going, I love you. I’m not mad at you. I wouldn’t change a thing. That’s the redemption. I’m not mad at you after all this. You’re the only thing that matters.
Talk about Clay’s state of mind this season.
I’ve lost everything except my life. I’ve lost Gemma. I’ve lost the club. I’ve lost every friend I ever made. I’ve lost all my material, earthly goods. Every single thing that I spent my entire life working to obtain has been taken from me except for my life. So that puts you in some sort of contemplative state …. I always wanted to play a hero. I always wanted to find, no matter how nefarious, no matter how dark, no matter how questionable the things that Clay did were, I always needed to think that I was playing a hero.
Hero? You beat up Gemma! What do you recall of that scene?
That was difficult. Physical violence between a man and woman is very hard for me to play. When I had to kill Piney … you know, Ron didn’t want to kill Bill Lucking but Clay had to kill Piney. That was one of those days you just — God give me the strength to get though this when all I want to do is give this guy a hug. The scene where Ryan realizes that I’ve killed his father, comes to get me and actually shoots me twice. That was a really difficult day because Ryan Hurst was so in the zone and he was so angry and so hurt. Also, Clay could have died right there because that was Opie’s objective. That was a very big challenge to shoot.
You were pretty vocal last season about how Kurt had written Clay.
I started to have trouble with the stuff that I was being asked to do because I couldn’t find a way that I can justify it to myself. I had to resign myself to playing this guy in a detached way. Looking back in hindsight, I’ve come up with this treatise: Clay lost his way because he was in a position where the pressure got to him and he started blurring the lines on a daily basis between right and wrong until wrong and right almost looked the same. He was completely on his own. What can he do to put his house in order and return back to the guy who became the leader? He was a guy that knew how to think for everybody else and was ruthless enough to carry out whatever one needed to carry out in a violent outlaw world. That was his job.
What has this show meant to your career?
I don’t know. I made some friends that are lifelong that I will carry with me to the end of my days. So it’s been really good.
Were you part of the off-camera brotherhood that formed?
There were a lot of drunken evenings in bars with the boys that sit around the table. Some of the best nights of my life, especially in the first three or four seasons, before it all started to splinter off. But I’m 63 and all the other guys are in their 20s, 30s, 40s. So, I’m a different generation. I was always Clay Morrow, the ******* in the club. So it was always the boss against the workers. But those five … Kim Coates, Theo Rossi, Charlie Hunnam, Mark Boone Junior, Tommy Flanagan … we’ve been partying, officiating at each others weddings, kissing each others babies when they’re born. A lot of water has gone under this bridge and we really, really, really like each other a lot, as much as I’ve ever liked a company of guys.
Are you taking anything from the set?
Just the memories. I don’t want a thing. I have never taken anything. I’ve taken a couple of things from movies. I tried to steal the shoes from Pacific Rim because they were the coolest f–kin’ shoes anybody’s ever seen. They wouldn’t let me keep them. They were made out of gold. They were actually made out of gold.
So how does it feel saying goodbye?
I feel really proud of who I was in this whole cockamamie caravan. It’s been a little bit of a journey coming to full peace with the fact that I’m having to say an early good-bye. I mean I’m there. I’m already about 700 miles down the road in terms of what’s next for me. So, I’m incredibly excited about what lies ahead. And, I’m very proud of what we’ve left here. I’m very proud of it.
What’s your fondest memory?
I remember the chapel scenes. When I’m sitting on my rocking chair in the old age home and all the other actors are sitting there thinking about great moments in their lives, I’ll be thinking about the chapel scenes with Tig on my right and Jax on my left, me at the head of the table where I’m smoking cigars and we’re making plans, kicking *** and taking names. That’s what I’m gonna remember about the show because that , to me, was quintessential Sons of Anarchy.
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I know yall wont be sad to see Tara go
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I'm in shock and awe at how everything played out. Definitely one of my favorite SoA episodes.
- this broad tara STILL got leverage... however, i don't see her using it. i think she kinda has an idea of what Jax did and is up to
- i thought Jax was playing the DA w/ the misdirection, but ended up still giving her his end of the deal
- SERIOUSLY GOTTA WAIT 2 WEEKS FOR THE NEXT EP????? nooooooo!
- my dude Happy though... he GOTTA come outta this breathing.
I'm in shock and awe at how everything played out. Definitely one of my favorite SoA episodes.- this broad tara STILL got leverage... however, i don't see her using it. i think she kinda has an idea of what Jax did and is up to
- i thought Jax was playing the DA w/ the misdirection, but ended up still giving her his end of the deal
- SERIOUSLY GOTTA WAIT 2 WEEKS FOR THE NEXT EP?????
nooooooo!- my dude Happy though... he GOTTA come outta this breathing.
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great episode. the only thing that could have made it better was happy doing some crazy ish
johnnyderp
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the only thing this episode lacked was the usual montage at the end with great music. otherwise 8/10
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Amazing episode last night.
Jax putting in that work and just murks everyone
Am I the only one who doesn't feel bad about Clay getting murked? He had it coming for the longest. I was thinking Jax finally got that revenge on that shady ************
Tara wtf is this scheming bish gonna do now?
Jax is the GOAT.
Happy has to make it out alive.
Jax putting in that work and just murks everyone
Am I the only one who doesn't feel bad about Clay getting murked? He had it coming for the longest. I was thinking Jax finally got that revenge on that shady ************
Tara wtf is this scheming bish gonna do now?
Jax is the GOAT.
Happy has to make it out alive.
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It must've taken them like 30 seconds to come up with that plan. You guys think the kings will buy the story?
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Not for one bit.
And I don't think Jax thinks so either. Have a feeling it's all gonna fall on Connor.
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Connor looks like if he's going down for this he'll take people down with him. Maybe another club member dies this season.
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I don't even follow the show like that (nor have I seen a full episode), but even I know what it meant to kill Clay . My father watches the show, and he called me into the living room last night to see it go down.
Love when **** goes down in a series BEFORE the seasons finale episode.
. My father watches the show, and he called me into the living room last night to see it go down.Love when **** goes down in a series BEFORE the seasons finale episode.
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I don't know about that the Kings going after them because remember how they all questioned gallen when jax first called to let them know he wanted out. Gallen said jax killed connor but he didnt. The Kings all looked at gallen like he was shady so it'd be believable that there was a falling out Bettendorf clay and gallen
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Yea, this is how I feel about it too.
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bruhs, the silence in the hangar was :x
so goddamn suspenseful. love this show.
there were some signs of tara showing that she still loves jax and the club members. holding jax's hand after he murked clay. that look she gave him when he apologized and saying he understood why.
i hope she doesn't rat. maybe she rats and then commits that? word to ophelia.
so goddamn suspenseful. love this show.
there were some signs of tara showing that she still loves jax and the club members. holding jax's hand after he murked clay. that look she gave him when he apologized and saying he understood why.
i hope she doesn't rat. maybe she rats and then commits that? word to ophelia.
