While we still mourn the 1899 premature cancellation, star Rosalie Craig reveals showrunners Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar had big plans for her character Virginia. During an exclusive interview with Collider’s own Perri Nemiroff in Park City during Sundance, Craig also lamented that the show fell victim to algorithms before it could tell its full story.
1899 follows a group of multicultural passengers aboard a ship crossing the ocean from Europe to the United States in 1899. One of these characters was Virginia, a madame trafficking young Asian girls with plans to sell them in America. Of course, as the season finale revealed, the whole ship journey was part of a computer simulation, and the people inside it had their memories scrambled. So, while we don’t know who Virginia truly was outside the simulation, she was the only character to survive touching a dangerous virus that spread through her body like a virtual infection.
Given that nothing is random in Friese and bo Odar’s mind-boggling stories, Virginia’s viral infection was planted for a reason. And if the show hadn’t been cancelled, fans would have watched Virginia take a more prominent place in Season 2 of 1899. When asked if she knew where the series was taking Virginia, Craig confirmed there was a master plan behind everything. Hear all about it in this interview clip!
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