SELECTED COMMENTS BY HUGH
MISCELLANEOUS
He would want to sign up for any part that Bryan created for him.
He thinks that Will’s being ‘on the spectrum’ is misdirection - he’s so open, he presents himself as the opposite as self-protection.
Could Will be a Christian Grey type? No! Will would be the world’s worst billionaire - he’d just get another dog or two but basically continue living in the same way.
To describe Will and Hannibal’s relationship, he used the chess player metaphor again. ‘For both of them, it’s a relief from loneliness. And I guess that’s love, right? …Suddenly the world makes more sense.’ (He also insisted again that theirs is 'platonic’ love - BUT he sort of took it back once Bryan appeared. Maybe by 'platonic’ he just means that they haven’t been banging away pre-S4?!)
Will is 'plenty dark’ even without Hannibal.
'His mental makeup is something he was born with.’
Will’s dogs were 'adorable’ but not trained - they were rescue dogs, so they kept running away!
Is Will a good man?
He’s 'trying to be a good man’. 'He’s desperately trying to be better than he is’.
Will is 'trying to justify his relationship with Hannibal’ by attempting to put him away - he feels guilty about the relationship.
SEASON 1
Will knew that Bryan wanted to use Nik Kershaw’s 'Wouldn’t It Be Good?’ cover by Shy Boy at the end of S1 Ep1, when Will visits Abigail in the hospital and finds Hannibal there. 'I had it in my mind’ during filming of the scene.
SEASON 2
He once joked with Mads about how Will would have reacted when he read what Hannibal had written about him - he thinks there was probably a 'don’t let Will see this’ book that Hannibal burned before they burn the books together at the end of S2.
SEASON 3
Will’s rejection of Hannibal in Digestivo…
He had to explain to Mads what 'drop the mic’ means!
Will is using Hannibal’s 'soft spot’ for him to defeat him, rather than getting physical like at the end of S2. He also 'genuinely wants to break up with him’.
Hugh thinks that Will and Molly would have got married in a registry office - he never imagined them having a proper wedding.
When Will asks Bedelia 'Is Hannibal in love with me?’…
'Will has never conceived the possibility that Hannibal could feel love’ because of Hannibal’s 'black heart’. Will has 'put love on a pedestal’ and considered it an ideal. Then he sits with Bedelia thinking 'Oh crap, maybe this thing I’m feeling is love’. And it horrifies him because it’s dark and 'dirty’, which he didn’t think love could be.
In the clifftop house, when Will draws his gun…
'Will is playing both sides’ and 'had some ambivalence in what was going on’. He was probably about '50/50’ about watching Dolarhyde 'change’ Hannibal and was still feeling that ambivalence when he drew his gun, but ultimately he wouldn’t have allowed Dolarhyde to go through with it, even if he hadn’t attacked Will.
Will would be 'very happy at the table’ in the post-credits scene of S3’.
His 'bitchiness’ with Bedelia wasn’t dictated by rivalry over Hannibal’s 'friendship or love’. He just thought she 'had it coming’ because of the choices she had made.
POST-SEASON 3
After the fall, there would have to be a lot of recuperation! After that, a character reset for Will is likely. However, Will would not have completely 'sloughed off’ his empathy because it’s the basis of the show.
They definitely went off the cliff. It was what Will had to do - kill Hannibal and end himself.
Hannibal’s 'secret magical toolbox’ is probably what helped them survive!
'For a minute, he has become Hannibal… For Will, that might as well be an eternity… He’s seen how far he can go and pretty much that’s hand-in-hand with Hannibal.’
'That stain is now indelible’ so he feels he has to end himself because there’s no way back for him to who he was.
'I don’t think this show exists without Will’s empathy’ - he thinks that for a while Will could be 'bleached’ or 'cleansed’ of that quality by Hannibal, but it wouldn’t last for long.
'Hannibal’s always going to have to fight for him’.
SELECTED COMMENTS BY BRYAN
Bryan wanted to use Nik Kershaw’s 'Wouldn’t it be good?’ cover by Shy Boy at the end of S1 episode 1, when Will visits Abigail and finds Hannibal there.
'The compassion between Will and Hannibal is all based on the fact that they understand each other.’
The Achilles and Patroclus exchange was intended to suggest romance between Hannibal and Will.
How Hannibal would react on seeing the firefly man…
'There was a version of the scene where he did see it… Hannibal was watching Jack watch it and he was very proud.’
'Bedelia was navigating to be the last wife standing and then in came Will and said, 'No!’
In S4, 'I don’t think we would ever lose Will’.
They wouldn’t 'Abigail’ Will.
He and Hugh 'wrote the last scene of Season 3 together’ and Hugh is his 'crutch’.
'Who’s the top and who’s the bottom? The answer is they flip’.
Bryan’s favourite line from the show is 'It’s beautiful’ - partly because Hugh wrote it!
The original plan for the arc after Season 3 was for a season of Will and Hannibal, a season dealing with The Silence of the Lambs story, and then a season in which Will and Clarice hunt Hannibal!!
