The Cast of Bloodline Reveals What Really Happened to Danny and More Juicy Season 2 Secrets

POPSUGAR: Let's talk about season one. It felt like it was more about the buildup, and the "before," so I'm wondering how season two will deal with the "after," and if that was a big shift for your characters?

Linda Cardellini: It is about the fallout of what happens, and the disintegration of the relationships as we know it, in my opinion. I think Meg tries to carry on and have a different life, and compartmentalize what happened, and she ends up not talking to her mom as much. [Meg and Sally's] relationship is completely fractured. It's hard to look her in the eye, it's hard to talk to her. I'm forced into this, sort of, alliance with my brothers, and that implodes as well. It's a lot of loneliness because of it, I think.

Sissy Spacek: Sally is grieving her husband and grieving her son, and just assumes that that's what's happening with them, and she's happy for Meg's success and getting this big job in New York, but misses her. Sally does not realize yet. She thinks everything is horrible like this just because people in their lives that they loved, died. Everything really is falling apart, and she has no friends, she's trying to run the business, she's distanced from her children . . . she's lonesome and sad.

PS: Going off of the deaths that occurred in the first season, how will the show handle the aftermath of Danny's death and the gaping hole that actor Ben Mendelsohn leaves behind?

SS: Not very well.

LC: He can never go away, whether it's theoretically or literally, there's no escaping that presence.

SS: It's like the elephant in the room.

LC: You have his son, and that whole element that comes into play. That introduces his past more to the family than we ever have known before, and uncovers other secrets that are also just as toxic as the ones from the first season.

SS: And that his son is played by the same young actor who played Danny as a young boy in the [season one] flashbacks, but now he's grown up. He's amazing. He's back, and for Sally, it's like a gift from heaven. In the beginning she's wary of him. I'm not sure how she feels about that, but then she finds out all these things that Robert has left in his wake, and she uncovers all kinds of things that he's done, in terms of the business, in terms of his son, his grandson, and everything. It just keeps coming.

PS: One of the things that is really cool about the show, while also being simultaneously really frustrating, is the inventive use of flashbacks and flashforwards that we saw in season one. Will season two be as creative in its storytelling?

SS: Yes, that drove us crazy, too! We were like, "Wait a minute, when is this? How long ago has this happened?"

LC: Yeah, "How long has it been since this happened? Where are we now?"

SS: "What year is it? How old am I?"

LC: I think season two will have less flashing forward, because I don't think that's as much of a thing. But then again, we don't know. They could use it and we didn't foresee it. It's up to the guys in the end how they cut the show together.

SS: I bet you will see things in season two that we shot in season one, that we never saw, because that will be a flashback. It's so layered, that the most important person to us on set is Katie, the script supervisor. Oh my god.

LC: She has the toughest job, between the continuity and the flashbacks. You go to her because it's hard to keep track of the timeline, especially from season to season. She's incredible. She's so good since we're always changing things. She's very understanding.

PS: What is the one thing that fans should keep an eye out for, or look forward to, in season two?

SS: May I be so crass as to ask how old you are?

PS: I'm 25.

SS: So we have a really broad spectrum of people who like the show, and I think there's a whole new element that's coming up this year, with Danny's son, and the grandchildren. They're kind of stepping up into these bigger roles. That's really exciting, and the fact that Danny will be back. We were all so devastated when we thought he might not be back.

LC: And the idea that what you see happen in season two can then inform you more about season one . . . I think that's what's really fascinating about Ben's character. Danny coming back, and seeing parts of his life, because then it makes everything we've done, richer. They work together, the seasons.

SS: It hurts more, because you realize how hard he was trying. It's really . . . they kick us in the gut.

LC: The characters are constantly changing. You think John is one thing, and then he becomes something else. Kevin starts out one way, he's so damaged by what happens, and then he pulls himself out of it, and then that goes in an interesting direction. They take the characters on quite a ride, I think. For me, it was fun this year because I had more to do.

SS: You were in the big middle of it. You were in the middle of the lie.

LC: I'm in the middle of it because I helped. I picked up the phone and chose to help.

SS: As Meg does.

LC: Yeah, as Meg does. And now she's doomed. Maybe. We'll see!