The 100’ star Bob Morley previews Bellamy’s journey to leadership in season 4… and beyond? 

‘The 100’ star Bob Morley previews Bellamy’s journey to leadership in season 4… and beyond? (exclusive)

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star Bob Morley previews this week’s episode “Heavy Lies the Crown” and shares his thoughts about Bellamy’s leadership journey, his guilt, his relationships, his devotion to Skaikru, and much more.

season 4 was off to a solid start with last week’s premiere episode, “Echoes,” but can it keep up the momentum in episode 2, titled “Heavy Lies the Crown?” Spoiler alert: Yes, yes it can.

This Wednesday at 9/8c on The CW we’ll see many of our heroes wrestle with difficult decisions, but none of them are facing the same moment of truth as Bellamy Blake, whose choice between whether to (potentially) save a large group of people in six months, or save a small group of innocent people today, will define his character going forward.

In preparation for this important episode, I spoke to Bob Morley about Bellamy’s arc in

season 4, the character’s key relationships, how “infuriating” it would be if the show didn’t get a season 5, and much more. Enjoy!

Hypable: A lot of fans really connect to Bellamy; I think his struggle to be a good man is very relatable. Why do you think Bellamy resonates so strongly with people watching the show?

Bob Morley: You know, everyone worries about having these flaws, and Bellamy wears them on his sleeve. It’s something that we can all relate to, because we all want to be the best versions of ourselves, and sometimes you just can’t be that.

And I think the other big thing that Bellamy has is his sibling relationship with Octavia. It’s the only one on the show, so it’s one that people can really grasp on to. And Bellamy is the kind of guy that would do anything for his family. That’s still true for him, but I think his family has extended to the 100 kids on the ground, and now to Skaikru, and I think people can really get behind that loyalty to family.

I mean, I’m the youngest of four kids and I would do anything for my brother and sisters, so I think that’s something that a lot of people can see within Bellamy.

I spoke to Jason Rothenberg recently, and he said we’ll see Bellamy come into his own as a leader this season. And like you said, Bellamy really cares about the delinquents, and he inspires a lot of conviction in them. Especially in this upcoming episode, he’s very much the person they turn to to make the decisions. So how would you define Bellamy as a leader? What do you think he could become?

You know, on the battlefield Bellamy’s kind of proven himself to be a worthy leader. He’s not necessarily making the right decisions, but you usually end up living if you side with him [laughs]. He very much leads with his heart, and he’s a little bit too emotional to be a great, thoughtful leader, but his compassion for his people is something that people know they can lean on.

And that’s why I think… I mean, the Grounders dislike his style of leadership, absolutely, but if you’re a part of the 100 and Skaikru, then he usually has your best interests at heart. And this season, it will be interesting to see how his mindset will change toward the rest of the 12 clans.

I’m aware that the topic of Bellamy and Clarke is sort of the hot potato of every interview you do, and obviously there isn’t much you can say in terms of what may or may not come next for them. But I’m interested to hear, from your perspective, how Bellamy feels about their dynamic at this point in the show?

Well, Clarke and Bellamy really connected in episode 8 of season 1, where he wanted to run away from being a leader, and Clarke said, “No, you need to stay, you need to see this through till the end.” And he’d never had an ally like that, when he’d been so vulnerable with somebody. And that’s something they share, they have a huge capacity to be honest with each other.

In season 3, when Bellamy was trying to be honest with Clarke and Clarke wanted to stay with Lexa, that really hurt him. And then in episode 13 of season 3, he tells her that he wants to forgive her, because everyone needs somebody that they can lean on and have a sounding board with. He can be totally honest with her — or as honest as you possibly can be with a person — and I think that’s what she provides him and what he provides her, without a huge sense of judgement.

I think that’s a thing that they have — that when you share that confidence, people gravitate toward you — because they rarely lie to each other. They ask for forgiveness from each other, and they give that to each other. There is that honesty and vulnerability there.

is that — beneath the gore and the drama — it’s ultimately a bunch of love stories between all of these characters. Some are romantic and some are not, but the love is definitely there, and I think that’s true for Bellamy and Clarke as well. Would you say that’s fair?

Oh yeah, absolutely. And I think it’s true for Bellamy and Kane as well, and everyone else. Ultimately everybody wants to have a sense of security, and then to be able to build on that, but right now there is no security and there never has been for these guys. So the only security that they can find since the Earth isn’t providing it — and furthermore, they’re at war — is with each other. And that becomes your sanctuary, that’s the security, of being able to connect with everyone else because right now that’s all they have.

One of my favorite moments from the season 4 premiere was when Kane told Bellamy to turn the page, and do better until he felt like he deserved to survive. It was a beautiful moment between the two of them, and says a lot about their relationship. Can you speak a bit to that?

Yeah, the Kane and Bellamy dynamic is one that Ian [Henry Ian Cusick] and I love playing, and we’re — well, we’re not anything like our characters, but we’re very close like the two of them are. In season 3, Kane and Pike were kind of vying to be the mentor of Bellamy. They saw a young leader that was a little bit erratic, and they both wanted to take him under their wing and try to teach him from their mistakes, you know? And Bellamy also let his need for revenge get the better of him.

But Kane still sees that good man inside of Bellamy, and wants him to see that for himself as well. And I think that’s a really beautiful and kind of heartbreaking thing with those two. Bellamy has such potential, and Kane can see that, but Bellamy is so stuck in his own guilt and he can’t get beyond it. And I like seeing that go back and forth, because it’s just always fun and beautiful to play along with Ian, and to see that [relationship] develop as well.

A dynamic the show hasn’t really explored much yet is Bellamy and Abby. Can we expect any significant moments between the two of them this year?

Well you know, whenever someone gets hurt Abby is always there, so I’m pretty sure you’ll see us in the same room together at some point [laughs]. But, you know, Abby and Bellamy both have that sense of protectiveness over Clarke. They share that as well. That relationship is definitely there and understood between the two of them, and it’s pretty cool. So you will see that explored a little throughout the season. And working with Paige [Turco] is always a lot of fun as well.

Which character do you think has the best arc this season?

I mean, everyone has well-rounded ones, but I think Octavia. And Echo’s arc is really, really cool, and Raven’s story… it’s really quite a big, expansive thing. But yeah, I quite enjoyed Octavia’s story this season.

, do you think viewers will be satisfied with the story and where Bellamy’s journey ends?

[Laughs] Ummm, will they be satisfied with the ending of this season… You know, I hope that it’s not the end of the series. It definitely feels like they have so much more story left to tell by the end of the season. I think [the fans] might be infuriated because — well, I think

would be infuriated as well, because we didn’t get to finish the story, or where we wanted it to go, you know?

The writers and Jason just keep going back to the wall, and I always think at the end of a season that they’ve penned themselves into a corner, and instead they end up kicking down the wall and making a bigger room [laughs]. I think there’s plenty more story to come, and I hope that this isn’t the end of the show.

Well, we’re certainly hoping for a season 5 as well! For now, you can look forward to watching “Heavy Lies the Crown,” and speculate about all the enticing clues Bob Morley could share about Bellamy’s season 4 journey.

‘The 100‘ season 4, episode 2, ‘Heavy Lies the Crown,’ airs Wednesday at 9/8c on The CW

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coming to an end later this year, it’s time to start thinking about what could come next.

episode airs, it’s going to be bittersweet for fans. On one hand, we’ll (hopefully) finally know who’s been involved in the girls’ torture, but on the other hand, we’ll have to say goodbye to the series and the characters that we’ve come to love over 7 years.

creator, Marlene King, has already spoken about a potential future for the series. She’s not sure if the future will come in the form of a spinoff, a movie or something else, and it won’t happen right away, but she’s certain the show will come back, in some form.

This is great to hear, since the extremely dedicated

fan base, who still breaks records for social media engagement, might have a difficult time quitting cold turkey, with no hope for more. The question is, if/when those incredibly devoted fans do get to return to the

world, what would they want to see?

Well, we may not all ship the same couples, we don’t all subscribe to the same crazy theories, and we don’t all care about the same ridiculous side plots, but there are a couple things that

fans can agree on. One, is that Wren Kingston is unequivocally guilty and involved in some way (unrelated to this article, but true, nonetheless), and another, is that we need answers. As many as we can get.

series, we’ve seen more than 100 hours’ worth of A’s reign of terror over the girls. Over 100 hours of escalating mystery and truly WTF worthy moments. Given the amount of questions we’ve had, over the years, you’d think they’d have given us at least a few hours’ worth of answers, right?

In reality, we’ve gotten maybe 30 minutes of answers, spread out over a couple episodes. That’s not enough! Also, there’s a big problem with the answers that we do get from

. They always seem to come with more questions!

We got a far-too-brief confession from Mona about how things went down in the beginning. Charlotte filled in more blanks, but basically just blamed everything that couldn’t be explained on Sara Harvey. We’ll definitely get some oversimplified exposition from the guilty culprit(s) at the end of

, but will it cover everything that we want/need to know? Definitely not.

We’ve invested so much time in this mystery, and we deserve every little morsel of truth they can give us. We want to know the who, what, when, where, why, and most of all, how all of this went down. That’s why, the one

spinoff that all fans can agree on, is one that shows us exactly how A pulled all of this off! Or rather, how

pulled it off, which is what the spinoff could be called.

and seeing it play out from A’s perspective. Imagine watching Mona deciding to go after the girls, figuring out their weaknesses, and exploiting them. Pulling their strings like the puppet master she was. What if we could see how she assembled the A Team, and actually get to the bottom of who’s been involved, and for what purposes.

First of all, anything that keeps Mona Vanderwaal on our screens is a good thing. She’s brilliant, sassy, hilarious, complicated, and just an overall joy to watch. A series with her at the centre, at least at the beginning, would be insanely fun to come back to, week after week. She’s so intriguing and nearly impossible to figure out.

would give us a chance to figure out her motives, and appreciate her character, even more.

This series could also give us an opportunity to dive deeper into Radley. When Mona started the A game, she was extremely ill, and in desperate need of help. Is she better now? Honestly, we’re still not really sure, but we know that she did spend time at Radley to receive treatment. Based on what we’ve seen of Radley, they weren’t always interested in actually helping their patients. Between Mona, Spencer, Charlotte, Bethany, and Toby’s mom, so many characters have gone through there, with varying degrees of success. It’s often repeated that all roads lead to Radley, so spending more time there with Mona, and seeing Charlotte steal the game from her, could fill in so many blanks and give us a deeper understanding of why these characters treated the girls so badly.

On top of being informative, this spinoff would have the potential to be entertaining in a multitude of other ways. You know Mona/Charlotte/the rest of the A team had to put themselves in some hilariously compromising positions to gain all of their intel. You can’t spy on four different girls for years and always remain comfortable. It could also be a cool way to return to the original series and characters, since they would have to show clips of what’s happening with the girls, as A pulls the strings.

We’re not saying the spinoff would have to match the

events, episode per episode. We’re not looking for another seven year commitment. It could be a much shorter series, since all of the red herrings and the girls’ horrible theories could be cut out. But, after over 100 hours of mystery, set up and questions, they could surely deliver at least a couple seasons’ worth of answers.

do return to the world, someday, this is the story they should tell. More than anything,

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has to shove them in our faces twice, maybe even three times?

That’s right, there are possibly up to three love triangles happening in the show’s first 14 episodes. I don’t know about you, but that seems a little much to me. It’s hard enough watching a show with one complicated love triangle.

You might be confused about who I’m talking about, so I’ll lay it out for you. Let’s start with the blatant advertisement for the love triangle we’re about to see this week.

You know it’s going to be annoying when even the trailer for this week’s episode calls out a love triangle. As I mentioned in last week’s recap, seeing Kate receiving advances from some random guy so soon after being engaged makes me want to slap some sense into her.

So far there hasn’t been much doing on Kate’s part to really solidify this whole love triangle thing but I’m not liking the flirty vibes Duke is giving, along with the fact that we’re straight up told there’s going to be drama in their relationship in the commercial.

Toby already had to go through being dumped, taken back, having a heart attack and another major heart surgery. Does he really need to deal with the possibilities of his recently engaged-to fiancé cheating on him?! It feels like this relationship hasn’t had a chance to take a breath and relax. What with the weight loss goals and all the health scares, these poor kids might die of stress before they even get to say, “I do!”

I’d really like to see their relationship bloom for once, and be an example to Kevin on what a relationship should look like.

Speaking of Kevin, this one is a doozy because we were introduced to someone we never even knew existed: Kevin’s ex-wife! We found out that he was married to someone for 12 years and then left, not to speak to her again. Clearly Kevin has quickly gotten over Olivia and Sloane.

I’m so torn over this storyline. On one hand I absolutely love the depth this brings to Kevin and the history we have so much to learn from. I’m excited to see Sophie and Kevin’s past and watch how they fell in love as kids and teenagers. Childhood sweethearts have always been a weak spot for me since Cory and Topanga in

On the other hand, what was the point of Sloane and Olivia!? We, as an audience, have built up a rapport with Sloane and we were on her side when Kevin had to choose between her or Olivia, but suddenly all of that has been thrown out the window. And for what?

Kevin has established he’s not the best with women or relationships. He left a woman for twelve years, fell for a total diva bitch and accidentally insulted his relationship with Sloane by staying with her because it’s the “right thing to do, even if it’s not what you want.” Clearly this guy needs a life coach or something to step up his game.

Here’s hoping that with the few episodes we have left this season Kevin’s arc is used to carve out a deep, honest connection with one woman instead of something insubstantial with others.

Let me get this out there first: I don’t trust Miguel one bit, so my opinion of this whole situation may be totally biased.

When we first found out that Miguel was the man Rebecca was married to in the present day I was thoroughly confused, upset and trying to figure it all out. Did Rebecca and Jack get a divorce? How did he end up with Rebecca? When did he

I know I’m not the only one who distrusts the guy, or at least I hope I’m not. There’s just something fishy about that whole relationship and we haven’t had much time to bond with Miguel as much as we did with Jack. The only person I know that doesn’t like Miguel as much as I do is Kevin.

Kevin’s clearly not a fan of Miguel and there could be so many reasons why. Maybe he feels like Miguel is trying to replace his dad, or he knows something we don’t about his relationship with Rebecca. I don’t know

Kevin doesn’t like him but I know the fact that he does is enough for me to stand on his side.

As cruel as this may sound I really hope it’s Jack’s death that brings Rebecca and Miguel together, because I absolutely cannot handle another love triangle in this dang show!

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Bottle episodes usually only consist of one location with only featured cast and as few non-regular cast members as possible. This is a TV trope that has been used for decades, but some great episodes have come out of it. While traditionally bottle episodes are a great money saver, they also have the potential of being great episodes because the writing has to good. When characters are stuck in one room, they have no choice but to have good dialogue to move the story.

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Perhaps this is a bit overdone, but Vanessa Hudgens’s first claim to fame was with

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The opening credits already have the head start in this one.

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