Major Spoiler Alert: This past Tuesday’s episode of the FX’s Sons of Anarchy was an emotional one, with Bobby Elvis (Mark Boone Junior) biting the big one. The man who pulled the trigger, August Marks (Billy Brown) is now opening up about the big death scene.
August Marks may have been pulling the strings that lead to Bobby’s death, but the actor who plays him, Billy Brown had no idea what was going on. Brown recently opened up to Entertainment Weekly about being kept in the dark about Bobby’s condition:
“A bunch of us had gathered impromptu coming from catering and moving into our tight little sweaty box where we have our table reads once a week. I know Charlie [Hunnam] had said to me, “Billy Brown, you a mad motherf**ker, man.' I kinda laughed. I said, 'What’s up?' to the rest of the fellas, [Kim] Coates and [Tommy] Flanagan, and Boone, and so forth. Sutter was walking up at the same time. I had not read the script at that point. To the credit of Sutter and Paris Barclay and the rest of the producers, they don’t send me scripts that I’m not in. So I didn’t really realize that I’d had Moses and my guys abduct Bobby...With things getting leaked so easily these days, they keep those things way under wraps. So I didn’t know what they were talking about. I had no idea Moses had taken the guy’s eye out and chopped fingers off until I got in the table read and Kurt had some things to say about the prior episodes and what was coming up in 709.”
Not having that information ahead of time, left Billy with very little time to get ready for the emotional scene:
“We got into the reading of it, and I started to realize what was going on, and then I talked to a couple of the writers after the table read, and they laid it out for me what had been going on between me and the Sons. I was blown away. So no, there was no preface, no warmup, no nothing: Get in there and make it happen, Billy Brown. In that table read, because it was Boone’s last episode, the emotion in the room: It’s one of the things I’ll always cherish about working on this show.”
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