Someone might want to give From‘s Boyd Stevens a medal—or actor Harold Perrineau an Emmy. As From Season 4 gets underway, it’s another eviscerating go-around for Boyd while he struggles to keep himself in one piece, both physically and emotionally. And it’s also an incredible showcase for Harold, who gets to stretch his talent in all these different directions because of everything the MGM+ show throws in Boyd’s path.

Yet even with so much against him, Boyd never gives up. He’s the definition of a hero: putting everything he has and everything he is on the line for his son and for people who need him. In an interview ahead of the Season 4 premiere, Harold connected with TVBrittanyF.com to discuss what keeps his character going after so much torment and what challenges he faced as an actor.

Brittany Frederick: We’re now four seasons in of Boyd getting constantly pushed to his limits, both physically and emotionally. Do you think there’s a point where he might break? Or what is it that continues to drive him even in the face of such persistent adversity?

Harold Perrineau: I think he almost does do that at the beginning of Season 4. When he goes to count those bullets, I think he’s right there. I think his mind is splintered at the end of Season 3. Once he sees Smiley come back, it’s too much for anybody to fathom.

But I think Boyd is through and through a man of service, and he’s going to do that even when he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s going to be of service—and he’s going to be of service to his child. He is going to get that boy home, no matter what. He is just going to keep stepping forward and forward and forward, and you are going to have to destroy him to make him stop. That’s the admirable part about him.

We’ve spoken before about how From also challenges you as an actor, since Boyd goes through so much. How would you describe the filming experience in Season 4?

This season was more emotionally terrifying for me as a human being, than the other seasons have been. But because emotionally there was a lot of breaking down, physically by the end of the season, I almost couldn’t walk. The flight home was one of the most uncomfortable flights I’ve ever had, because my body was was beat up.

I came home and tried to get every doctor appointment I could for everything that just had gone wrong—my back, [my] shoulder, my neck was all stuck. And then just talk to my therapist a lot. [Laughs.] All the while still trying to be [my wife] Brittany [Perrineau]’s husband and my kids’ father. It was a tough season. It was really tough.

It’s obviously difficult to sustain that level of intensity all day, every day, over an entire season. How do you as a cast find moments of levity during From, to give yourselves a break, even if your characters rarely get one?

That’s the part that’s really kind of great about shooting in Halifax with all these amazing artists and professionals. When it’s time to work, we get in there and we do the work and and we do it to the best of our ability. We bring as much of ourselves to this work that it almost feels like art. It really does.

But then when it’s time to break out, we get out. There’s a lot of beer drinking, there’s a lot of fun, there’s a lot of guitar playing and hanging out and cards, and so much stuff. Because you couldn’t walk around only thinking about this stuff for five months, which is about how long we’re there. It would be too much.

From Season 4 premieres April 19, 2026 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on MGM+. Photo Credit: Courtesy of MGM+.

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