That’s the only order given by the bosses at WGN America to the producers of “Outsiders,” cable television’s latest attempt to capture the essence of simple country folk coping with the modern world. If you’re going to portray Hollywood hillbilly stereotypes, make sure you drive them over the mountain and off the cliff on the other side. I said, “Listen, I have a contract for three years, so whether I want to stay or not, I have a contract.” And they said, sort of, “Oh, goodie.“Outsiders” Asa, G’Wynn and Little Foster. I actually told them halfway through the season, when we talked about whether I wanted to stay or not. I said, “Why don’t we wait and see what happens at the end of the first season,” but they weren’t comfortable with that, so we compromised, and I signed for three seasons.
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But they wanted me to, even though I was just going to be there for a season, WGN wanted me to sign a seven-year contract, like every series does. Originally I was told he would just be there for a season, and I said fine, I think this is a really interesting role, and it’s a funny character, and I thought it’d be a challenge for everybody to create this world.
When you found out, did you agree this was the way to take the character forward? How did you feel about that? Obviously, a job is always a good thing, but you went into the series thinking that the character was going to die in Season 1. We still wanted to play out the story where he gets killed, and then, “Let’s figure out what happens in the second season.” So that’s what we did. … Who knows what will happen in the future, but it was just too soon. And, like, halfway through the season, everybody was starting to feel like, well, do we really want to do this or not? And it was a unanimous feeling the character was just too much a part of this world, and stirs things up, and it would be hard to get rid of him. … Originally, Big Foster was not going to survive the first season. But I was doing the whole season with that backstory, and hoping it would be revealed at some point. There’s a whole backstory that we never got to. But that whole season, I knew that he was my son, and the pain that I had with his betrayal.
And I don’t think they really knew what was going to happen with Asa at that point. Very early on, in the first season, the two Peters and I talked about this, that this was how it was going to play out. Were you surprised when you read this, or was this something that you had discussed with the writers and knew it was coming at some point? When he refers to Asa as “my boy,” he meant that literally. Everyone probably said to themselves, “Did I just hear what I thought I heard?” Asa was Big Foster’s son. We get a very big reveal from Big Foster about Asa in this episode. The only way he’s going to survive in the clan is by coming clean and kind of laying himself at their mercy. He knows he deserves to be banished from the clan. And when he says, “Look, you can throw me out,” he’s serious. But at the same time, she’s his ticket to remaining in the clan. If he’s going to survive there, he really has to devote himself to G’Win, so he’s discovered a love for her, which he never expected. I mean, he’s not stupid, he knows what he’s done. His immediate plan is, he knows he’s not. I’m not sure really if he has a long range plan. We also know that he’s too smart to return home without a plan, given everything that has happened. He’s made some internal changes, he says, has a new outlook, just wants to be able to remain a part of the Farrell clan. We saw at the end of last week’s episode that Big Foster made it back to the mountain. Morse also talks about Big Foster’s plan for ingratiating himself back into the Farrell clan, how he can be a key figure in G’Win’s and the clan’s future, and whether or not the Asa/paternity reveal will continue to play out in the series.
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Asa was Big Foster’s son, which he revealed in a very out-of-the-blue way upon learning of Asa’s death in Tuesday’s episode of Outsiders.ĭavid Morse, the man behind Big Foster, talks to Yahoo TV about the big surprise - which actually isn’t such a shock when you think about the animosity between the two characters - and another one that is a bit more surprising: Big Foster was supposed to die himself - by Asa’s hand - at the end of Season 1. Yep, you heard him correctly … when Big Foster referred to the late Asa Farrell as “my boy,” he meant it literally. SPOILER ALERT: This interview for the “Banishment” episode of Outsiders contains storyline and character spoilers.