(CNN)When it comes to his character, lawyer Davis MacLean, connected "Power Book II: Ghost," Method Man says he's yet aft precisely what the rubric of the play proclaims.
"Power," the rapper-turned-actor responded erstwhile asked astir the character's motivation. "I deliberation Davis yet wants a spot astatine the table. He wants to beryllium 1 of the smartest radical successful the room, if not the smartest. He's precise ambitious."
And he's not the lone one.
Season 2 of the Starz play kicked disconnected Sunday and continues to travel the tumultuous beingness of Tariq St. Patrick and those successful his universe.
It's the continuation of the archetypal "Power" and portion of the franchise created by Courtney A. Kemp.
She told CNN the amusement came astir successful portion due to the fact that Starz wanted a seventh play of "Power" and that wasn't possible.
"I was similar 'There isn't different play of this to tell,'" Kemp said. "But determination is simply a mode to support the communicative going and research antithetic portion of it and that's wherever ["Power Book II: Ghost"] came from.
This play serves up "More of what you like" she said.
"You'll beryllium yelling astatine the television," Kemp said. "Definitely immoderate thrills, immoderate chills, immoderate murder, a small sex. You know, the accustomed cocktail."
Shane Johnson and Larenz Tate portrayed Cooper Saxe and Rashad Tate respectively connected the archetypal "Power" and successful the sequel.
Both said they are enjoying playing characters that galore viewers emotion to hate.
"It's a departure from my existent life, due to the fact that successful existent beingness I'm a bully guy," Tate said. "I'm each bully successful existent life, truthful it's benignant of bully to person amusive and play a spot of a tyrant astatine times."
"It's absorbing due to the fact that the amusement is built successful specified a mode that the heroes of the amusement are doing a batch of 'bad things' similar sidesplitting radical and worldly similar that," Johnson said. "I deliberation Cooper Saxe thinks of himself 'I'm the leader of my ain story.' I spell disconnected the rails a small spot and I statesman to compromise my ethics, but I'm ever aft something."
"Power Book II: Ghost" airs Sunday nights connected Starz.
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