SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Cross Season 2, Episode 1.

Jeanine Mason is definitely breaking bad in Cross Season 2. Mason joins the Prime Video series as Luz, an enigmatic woman who wastes no time getting her hands bloody—the opening scenes feature her killing and mutilating a man. It’s disturbing to watch, but also impressive for anyone who remembers this is the same actor who was helping to save the world in Roswell, New Mexico.

In an interview to introduce the second season, Mason spoke about what it was like to step into a role so much darker than she’s ever played before. She also talked about what excited her in the world of Cross. And how did she feel following after Ryan Eggold’s diabolical Season 1 performance as Ed Ramsey?

Brittany Frederick: Cross metes out Luz’s backstory very carefully. What do viewers need to know about your character going into the second season? How did you perceive her?

Jeanine Mason: I think what they need to know, it’s all encapsulated in that first scene of hers, when she is with Richard Helvig. I think that she’s someone certainly to fear—someone who really means business—but there’s a lot going on. There’s a lot of sadness. There’s a lot of weight there that leaves us wondering more about her motives.

And I think, as fans of the series, when you sort of are imagining Ramsey as the baddie of Season 1, and you meet [Luz] as the baddie of Season 1, she’s positioned that way. Then immediately you go, this is a different kind of baddie. And what does that mean for Cross, in relation to what he’s doing? How does him playing with the mind of this kind of killer affect his journey as a Black man, who’s a detective, in 2026?

Read the rest of this interview at Fangirlish.

Cross streams Wednesdays on Prime Video. Photo Credit: JC Olivera/Courtesy of Prime Video.

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