JESSICA JONES Supporting Characters To Have Expanded Roles In Season 2

JESSICA JONES Supporting Characters To Have Expanded Roles In Season 2

While the first season of Jessica Jones tackled most of the material in its comic counterpart, showrunner Melissa Rosenberg believes there's more story to tell with the title character and her supporting characters from the first season...

By MattBellissimo - May 13, 2016 02:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Jessica Jones
Source: CBR
While some of the minor characters were hit and miss, it's hard to argue that Jessica Jones had some strong performances from its supporting cast, including Mike Colter's Luke Cage, Rachael Taylor's Trish Walker and Wil Traval's Will Simpson. Colter will be getting his own standalone show in September, and while characters like Trish will stick to Jones, showrunner Melissa Rosenberg says they'll be getting expanded roles in season 2's narrative. "That's the trick of a show that's called Jessica Jones. If she's not in the scene, it's not a guarantee that scene will end up in the final picture," Rosenberg said in an interview with Nerdist. "You have to earn secondary character stories. You have to flesh them out enough so that they can eventually carry stories of their own, which is very much what season one was about... I'm hopeful that I can at least give her a day off in the six-month period. This is a very, very hardworking woman. I think it's important that there be some balance."

Jessica Jones didn't shy away from tackling some heavy subject material in its first season. Rosenberg revealed which topic surprisingly got the most blowback. "I was dealing with a lot of different issues on Jessica Jones: rape, abortion, interracial relationships, feminism -- all this stuff. What made me nervous was whether the audience was going to [react]. The one I thought was really going to get the most flak was the abortion story. The one that actually got the most, much to my horror and disappointment, was the interracial relationship [between Jessica Jones and Luke Cage]." It's certainly disappointing to learn that this particular issue had any sort of negative feedback in this day and age. It's currently unknown if Luke will reappear in Jessica Jones' second season. 

Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter recently revealed that the second season of the show is planned to shoot back to back with the highly anticipated crossover, The Defenders. Jessica Jones' first season is currently streaming on Netflix.
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Invictor
Invictor - 5/13/2016, 3:37 AM
Hopefully not that [frick]ing Robin chick or whatever her name was.
MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 5/13/2016, 3:43 AM
@Invictor - Lol, she was a minor character, not a supporting character, hence my first sentence ;-)
PantherKing
PantherKing - 5/13/2016, 3:59 AM
It's not related to this but it's pretty dopehttps://m.
AgeofApocalypse
AgeofApocalypse - 5/13/2016, 4:30 AM
Expanded roles, huh? If it's Nuke and Hellcat, sure. If it's one of the others, well...
MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 5/13/2016, 4:32 AM
@AgeofApocalypse - That was the implication. Luke, Trish and Will were supporting characters. Malcolm, Robin, and etc were minor ones.
AgeofApocalypse
AgeofApocalypse - 5/13/2016, 5:11 AM
@MattBellissimo - Gotcha. Thanks, Matt.
BritishMonkey
BritishMonkey - 5/13/2016, 4:43 AM
There were really complaints about Luke and Jessica's relationship?
Must've missed those comments... Still, that's the dumbest thing to pick out to complain about on the show.
PantherKing
PantherKing - 5/13/2016, 4:50 AM
@BritishMonkey - you should go on yahoo more often.
Talontd
Talontd - 5/13/2016, 5:28 AM
Fvcking racists....coming out of the woodwork lately...
MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 5/13/2016, 5:34 AM
@Talontd - The fact that an interracial relationship got any sort of blowback, never mind having THE MOST blowback, is astounding to me.
BatesMT
BatesMT - 5/13/2016, 5:39 AM
Loved Season 1. I can only hope Season 2 is just as good but without Kilgrave, I am slightly concerned. He was such an awesome villain.
Earth2SpecialKa
Earth2SpecialKa - 5/13/2016, 5:50 AM
well, if it didn't work in Daredevil, why wouldn't it work in JJ?
DjTheMarvelKid
DjTheMarvelKid - 5/13/2016, 6:31 AM
Alright I'm down Bring on hellcatandNuke
KillEmAll
KillEmAll - 5/13/2016, 6:47 AM
Hellcat in costume and as a Defender.
AgeofApocalypse
AgeofApocalypse - 5/13/2016, 6:49 AM
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/13/2016, 6:53 AM
As a person in a current interracial relationship, I can sadly say that folks still, IN 2016, have a problem.

My lady and I still get certain looks and hear shit under people's breath. Not a lot, but every now and again, it happens.

Not surprised by the Cage and Jessica flak. It's sad.
MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 5/13/2016, 7:18 AM
@ComicsBornAndBred - Dude. That's ridiculous, I'm sorry to hear that.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/13/2016, 7:42 AM
@MattBellissimo - eh it's cool. You unfortunately get used to it hah. Like I said, doesn't happen a lot.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 5/13/2016, 6:57 AM
JohnnyTBP
JohnnyTBP - 5/13/2016, 8:01 AM
Hopefully Killgrave is back, if not thought, someone more evil will play the antagonist.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 5/13/2016, 8:13 AM
Does anyone know if Malcolm is a Superhero eventually?

I thought he was interesting.

As long as we don't get that Banshee Robin

MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 5/13/2016, 8:25 AM
@SimplyAz - No, I believe he was created for the show.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 5/13/2016, 11:18 AM
@MattBellissimo -

Okay, cool, I thought he was quite likeable.
DTor91
DTor91 - 5/13/2016, 9:12 AM
Goes to show how many people know nothing about these characters to begin with. This was one if the first interracial relationships in comics, and unlike most comic relationships, they're still together. This past year has shown how racist a lot of people really are.
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 5/13/2016, 2:02 PM
@DTor91 - "This was one if the first interracial relationships in comics"

LMAO no it wasn't. The pairing is very recent. There have been plenty of interracial romances prior.

And the first interracial pairing was Iron Fist and Misty Knight.
marvelstudios
marvelstudios - 5/13/2016, 9:16 AM
I'd like to see more of Hellcat.
Spooks
Spooks - 5/13/2016, 10:41 AM
JJ was a snooze fest. Don't really care to see a second season, even more so now that David Tenant won't be in it
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