<em>The Gifted</em> star on Polaris' season 2 arc and reckoning with Magneto's legacy

These new coalitions were particularly hard on Lorna Dane, a.k.a. Polaris (Emma Dumont), whose alliance with the Inner Circle and Reeva Payge (Grace Byers) separated her from Marcos Diaz, a.k.a. Eclipse (Sean Teale), the love of her life and the father of her infant child.But over the course of the season, Polaris also found new sources of strength. There was a learning curve for season 2 Lorna, because she’s so different from season 1 Lorna. It sucks because in season 1 we see her struggle with the fear to take action; she’s afraid to stand up for mutants because she doesn’t want to be seen like an evil villain like her father. But in this season it kind of flipped, the tables turned in a different direction and now we meet this character Reeva Payge, and now and she’s the Magneto while Polaris is the Xavier of the story in terms of battling political views. So when the deaths did happen, we wanted it to hurt more.While Lorna’s big moment in the season 1 finale was taking down that plane to kill Campbell and Montez, her biggest moment in the season 2 finale is reaching out to Esme to stop the Cuckoos from forcing the Fenris kids to do horrible things. Esme spends all her time being so confident and so fierce and getting in people’s heads, and Lorna’s like, “You don’t have to be in someone’s head to have a friend. She’s prissy, she mind-controls people, she’s done a lot of bad things, she wears those pleated skirts, she’s not the girl for Lorna. You know what, Lorna saves the day every season! We saw Lorna almost kill her this season. It’s almost like a placebo effect, because this thing might not do anything.What would you like to see from Lorna in a potential season 3?