After a chilling and emotional Season 3 finale, viewers assumed it couldn’t have been worse for Coral Peña’s Aleida, who loses her beloved mentor in a terrorist attack. But now, Peña has revealed a deleted scene from the Season 3 finale, where the actor bares the character’s feelings of desperation and grief at the moment she realizes the truth.
The Apple TV+ sci-fi drama For All Mankind depicts an alternate timeline, showing NASA’s defeat against the Soviet Union in the race to accomplish a moon landing. Thus begins the never-ending space race, and female astronauts are trained in competition to achieve NASA’s success.
The series stars Joel Kinnaman, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Wrenn Schmidt, Sonya Walger, Coral Peña, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, and more. Season 3 ended this week in August 2022, with the fourth season already in development.
The show has combined real events and fictional speculation to create one of the most critically acclaimed shows streaming on Apple TV+. Each season depicts a new decade, starting from 1969 in Season 1 and the 90s in Season 3, with sturdy assumptions putting Season 4 in the 2000s.
Season 3 highlighted humanity’s jump to Mars, but our focus falls on the doomed relationship between Aleida and her mentor Margo. Season 3’s final episode showed a devastating scene of destruction at Johnson Square Center, where Aleida finds Margo’s office destroyed with her mentor nowhere to be found.
We’re shown in a later scene that Margo is in the Soviet in 2003, alive and well unbeknownst to Aleida, but for the moment, let’s loop back to the deleted scene in question.
In an interview with ScreenRant, Coral Peña reveals details from a short scene deleted from the final cut, which would have put Aleida’s feelings in prospect for the viewers.
So many scenes get cut out of For All Mankind, and sometimes I wish they were still in because people still have questions. Sometimes I wish it was still in, so people could follow a character’s train of thought a little more.
The actress goes on to describe the cut scene and the split moment that displayed the importance of Margo’s status in Aleida’s mind.
When the bombing happens, most people go one way. Aleida stops there, looks to her right, and decides to go down another way, one that would lead her to Margo’s office. So, her first thought isn’t, “Get out.” After a bombing, she’s not like, “Get out. I need to survive.” Her first thought is, “I need to save Margo.”
Peña describes the turbulence of several emotions flowing in the character’s mind at the sight of Margo’s destroyed office, including sadness, fear, denial, resignation, and agony.
When she opens the door, I think the immediate fear is, “Margo died, and I never got to tell her that I love her.” There’s shock there, so she isn’t thinking straight, but I think that’s what it is — that she’s been arguing and fighting with this person, and at the end of the day, she just wants to tell her that she loves her.
Season 3 had been a troubling turning point for the character’s journey, and the devastation she must have felt in the scene would have been capitalized if they had kept the deleted scene.
Viewers are now even more eager to know if and when the two reunite and how they would ever come back, given Margo’s life in the enemy nation.
About For All Mankind
For All Mankind is an American sci-fi drama TV series created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi for Apple TV+.
The series follows an alternate timeline where NASA is not the one to accomplish the first moon landing, and they train women astronauts to outdo the Soviet Union in the never-ending space race.
Cast members include Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten, and Jodi Balfour, among many others.
Source: Screenrant
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