Kingston Rumi Southwick on ‘Widow’s Bay’ Season 1, Hopes for Season 2
Widow’s Bay you will have prevailed because the sleeper hit of 2026, and Kingston Rumi Southwick cannot wait for season two.
“It’s so much fun,” the 18-year-old tells The Hollywood Reporter on a current Zoom. “I’m glad people are connecting to it.”
The actor performs Evan, son to Matthew Rhys’ Tom, within the Apple TV horror comedy sequence. Created by Katie Dippold, Widow’s Bay is about in a fictional — and really a lot cursed — New England island city and facilities round Tom, the city’s largest.
Since the present’s April premiere, it is continued to select up momentum each critically and in viewing. “I remember reading it for the first time and being like, I love this,” Southwick says.
The tone of Widow’s Bay is hard to land, and it very a lot does, however Southwick was inquisitive about how it could end up when filming the present. “I was watching it and thought that is exactly what I was thinking, if not better than what I imagined,” he says.
The spooky New England vibe was straightforward to get into for Southwick, largely as a result of present filming throughout Massachusetts. “We would shoot in these smaller sea cities outdoors of Boston, in folks’s homes. I might speak to the house owners, and they’d have their very own Widow’s Bay-esque tales,” he says. (*2*)
The present moved between sound phases and site shoots to essentially get that atmosphere proper. “You see the town and Richard Warren with his head cut off, that’s really what it looks like. You could be there today, and it’ll look basically the exact same,” says Southwick.
Dippold spent years discovering the precise tone of the present that may translate to audiences. It was one thing that stood out to Southwick when he learn the script. He factors to the state of horror for the time being, with franchises that proceed to place out sequels and new entry factors, like Obsession and Backroomswhich can be additionally doing nicely.
“What Widow’s Bay did rather well was it took these horror tropes and made [them] its personal. It’s a really authentic concept,” the actor says. He additionally factors out simply how humorous the present is and the way arduous that it may be.
For Southwick, whose previous credit embody Presumed Innocent and 56 Daysenjoying Evan has been a dream. “He’s a really smart kid,” he says of Evan. “There’s so much more that Evan can be saying and would be saying and stuff, but he doesn’t let off all of his stuff he wants to say or feels like he can.”
The father-son relationship between Evan and Tom is a giant driving pressure for Evan’s story. “There’s so many unspoken things, and I think that’s also partially because I haven’t had a mom,” Southwick says of his character. “Being able to have an emotional intelligence or awareness of being able to talk about how you feel or things like that [is important]. Evan didn’t grow up with that. “He grew up with a dad who kind of wants everything to be idyllic and to be the perfect thing.”
Looking forward, Southwick’s excited to see how Evan can develop and what is perhaps in retailer for the lately introduced second season. “I’m really excited for not only the mischief he gets into, but the levels that he can get to,” he says.
Southwick says he and group would speak on set about how he might evolve within the subsequent season if he performed him a technique or one other. The actor has additionally wished to enterprise extra into comedic work, having principally labored on dramas. “This is a good way for me personally as an actor to ease myself into it,” he says. “I think that for season two there could be so many more opportunities for Evan to be in a very crazy, funny situation.”
