'Banshee' Season 4 News, Spoilers: Anthony Starr On Lucas Hood's Real Name, Cutting Down The Action For Final Season
In its fourth and final season, Cinemax series "Banshee" sees master thief Lucas Hood (Anthony Starr) taking on a new crisis, this one involving a serial killer. After cutting himself off from everyone he knows in Banshee for the last two years, Hood returns to find the small town dramatically changed.
According to Starr, he specifically asked for the action in the show's fourth season to be toned down, as the first three seasons had left him feeling somewhat burnt out.
"I didn't have to do much action, which I asked for," the "Banshee" star told the New Zealand Herald. "I have a tendency to go, 'She'll be right', with that Kiwi attitude, but at the end of season three I was like, 'Ooh, she's not right.' It's just the attrition rate of being ground out, year-in, year-out."
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The New Zealander also opened up about the show's fast-approaching end, saying that it will finish on a high note and that fans will learn his character's real name by the end of the series.
In an interview with Collider, Starr commented on the reports that Hood's real name won't be revealed until the last scene of the series finale. According to the actor, while the reports aren't exactly false, the revelation isn't really all that important.
As Starr told the website, "Banshee" exists in a "heightened reality" where not all the questions need answering.
"The identity of Lucas is really unknown to him," he said. "The labeling of a name, to me, is slightly irrelevant. It's really about what's going on internally for the character."
But that's not to say that the show won't reveal Lucas' real name, Starr teased.
The actor also touched on the upcoming season 4 finale, which also marks the end of the crime drama/thriller. According to Star, he feels good about the finale and about the fact that the show is ending.
"We're finishing at the peak of our power, so to speak," the actor said.
"Banshee" airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on Cinemax.
