With over 400 million minutes viewed in the weekend following its premiere, there's certainly no doubting the popularity of showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith's Twisted Metal. A huge hit for Peacock, the post-apocalyptic action comedy series follows Anthony Mackie's John Doe, a milkman with amnesia, who is tasked with traversing a desolate US wasteland to deliver a strange package. Little does he know that the journey will thrust him into enough chaos and danger to last a lifetime.
A regular at the top of the streaming charts, the series boasts an impressive 81% from critics and 85% from audiences on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. With that in mind, the green light being given to a second outing surprised almost nobody, with Twisted Metal Season 2 achieving even higher heights with a 95% critics' score at the time of writing.
With just a handful of episodes left in the second season, Collider's Michael Zimmermann had the chance to talk with two of Season 2's best newcomers in Lisa Gilroy and Richard de Klerk, who portray Vermin and Mr. Grimm, respectively. In the interview below, the duo chat about the challenges they faced heading into production, one of Season 2's most eye-catching scenes, and go deeper into the motivations of their character, with Gilroy even dubbing it "therapy."
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