Sweet Tooth Season 2 is only a few days away, and Nonso Anozie, Dania Ramirez & Adeel Akhtar couldn’t be happier for their on-screen return. Ahead of the upcoming season, ComingSoon spoke with the actors who portray Tommy Jepperd (Anozie), Aimee Eden (Ramirez), and Dr. Aditya Singh (Akhtar), respectively. Anozie discussed the relief he feels every time he has to dig deep into himself and get in touch with the most emotional part of himself despite being often attached to roles that require a certain physical prowess. In turn, Ramirez and Akhtar addressed the topics in Sweet Tooth Season 2.
“As a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Neil Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for the experiments of captive Dr. Aditya Singh (Adeel Akhtar), who’s racing to save his infected wife Rani (Aliza Vellani),” reads the Sweet Tooth Season 2 synopsis.
“To protect his friends, Gus agrees to help Dr. Singh, beginning a dark journey into his origins and his mother Birdie’s (Amy Seimetz) role in the events leading up to The Great Crumble. Outside the Preserve, Tommy Jepperd (Nonso Anozie) and Aimee Eden (Dania Ramirez ) team up to break the hybrids free, a partnership that will be tested as Jepperd’s secrets come to light. As the revelations of the past threaten the possibility of redemption in the present, Gus and his found family find themselves on a collision course with Abbot and the evil forces that look to wipe them out once and for all.”
Tudor Leonte: Nonso, Sweet Tooth Season 2 shows more of Tommy’s complex and often heartbreaking backstory. How did you approach bringing that emotional depth to the role?
Nonso Anozie: For me, I love that. Those are my most favorite kind of bits to play. I mean, I know I do a lot of action, and I beat a lot of people up, and I’m this tough guy, but when I get to express that kind of emotion on screen and on character, it’s like therapy for me. It’s like getting it out. I feel refreshed afterwards. It’s almost like a deliverance of something that I’ve been holding onto. I find it therapeutic. I just reach down and whatever’s been bothering me, I just let it go, whether it’s like rage or whether it’s emotions where I’m crying, is something that we don’t often get a chance to do in daily life. Even in the first season, I get to totally trash my living room and it’s a lot of fun.
Dania and Adeel, Sweet Tooth has a unique blend of genres and themes, from post-apocalyptic survival to family drama. What do you think makes the show stand out from other series like that and how did that continue to play out in the second season?
Adeel Akhtar: I think it’s a really hard balance to have a post-apocalyptic story but also make it a family sort of show. I think what Sweet Tooth has done really well is a really difficult balancing act of dealing with some pretty complex and intense questions but delivering it in a way that is palatable to family and children, the whole family. I think that’s what it established in Season 1, and you get more of that in Season 2, especially with Singh’s character. He does come up against some massive sort of moral questions, but it’s still family viewing, and there’s still questions we should be asking ourselves.
Dania Ramirez: What’s interesting is that when you think of a post-apocalyptic world, you always think of everything terrifying and dark, and there’s nothing around. I think Sweet Tooth gives you a different perspective. Nature has reclaimed Earth, and it’s about trying to focus on what really matters in life, being kind to one another, and also caring about the children. What kind of world do we wanna leave for our children? It’s a very hopeful show, and that hope is being carried out by these young hybrids. I think that’s still a theme that’s there throughout Season 2 as well. No matter how dark the moments get, you really are doing it all for the children. That’s a really beautiful theme to continue to share.
