After jaw-dropping Season 3 finale, ‘From’ star Harold Perrineau warns that ‘you can fall in love with a character,’ but no one is ever safe!
“You can fall in love with a character, you can get really emotionally invested,” declares “From” star Harold Perrineau, “but they’re just like, ‘yeah, we don’t care, sorry, bye!” For our recent webchat he adds with a laugh, “We are trying to hurt your feelings!” referring to the series’ growing list of casualties as evidence that no character is safe on the horror drama. “Lately it’s been a steady stream of people who are like ‘I love ‘From,’ but if they kill Boyd, I’m gonna be mad!’ Like, I can’t control that!” he laughs. “It’s been really exciting to see that it’s really getting into people’s homes and they’re really digging it.” Watch our video interview above.
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“From,” created by John Griffin (who also serves as showrunner), streams exclusively on MGM+ (formerly Epix) where it has become the fledgling platform’s most successful series to date following its strong third season, which saw a surge in viewership and increased social media buzz. Ahead of the Season 3 finale that aired last weekend, MGM Plus confirmed the much-anticipated series renewal, with production on Season 4 set to begin mid-to-late next year for a 2026 premiere. The horror drama is set in a decaying old ghost town in middle America that appears to be under the control of an unknown malevolent force that traps anyone who arrives.
The unwilling residents struggle to stay alive while plagued by nocturnal creatures lurking in the surrounding forest, as they search for secrets hidden within the town and beyond in the hope of finding a way out. Perrineau stars as Boyd Stevens, alongside Oscar nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno (“Maria Full of Grace”) and Eion Bailey as Tabitha and Jim Matthews, who with their children Julie (Hannah Cheramy) and Ethan (Simon Webster) were new arrivals to the town back in Season 1. They’re joined by co-stars David Alpay, Elizabeth Saunders, Scott McCord, Ricky He leading the show’s large ensemble cast, who are all forced to endure living as a community of strangers desperate to escape the nightmarish town they’ve found themselves trapped in.
Boyd is the self-appointed sheriff and de-facto mayor of the ramshackle town of terrified survivors. After two seasons of death-defying near-misses and emotional gut-punches, Boyd was really put through the wringer this season, as he was relentlessly tormented in a sinister game of cat-and-mouse by the malevolent creatures and the otherworldly entity that may be controlling them. The horror kicked off with its devastating season premiere, in which Boyd was handcuffed in the barn and forced to watch the creatures torture his friend Tian-Chen (Elizabeth Moy) to her grisly death. Instead of panning to the gruesome massacre, the camera holds steady on an inconsolably horrified Boyd as we hear the terror in Tian-Chen’s excruciating screams as she begs for her life off-screen.
“When I first read it, and I read that she was dying, I was like, ‘wow, that’s gonna be wild. I wonder how they’re gonna shoot it,’ and then [director] Jack Bender goes, ‘here’s what we’re going to do, kiddo, we’re going to have her over there and we’re gonna put the camera on you, and we’re gonna let it go,” he explains incredulously. “That’s when you have to dig in, and put images in your brain that you know you don’t want to be there forever and but you have to,” he says. “That’s the great part of it, and if I can let it happen, then I’ve gotten something out of it. And then, therefore, hopefully, the audience did too. I’ve gone to a new place in my own self where I can allow this to be, and don’t have to be scared of it or anything like that. It was pretty wild shooting it,” he recalls, adding that “the crew there were so professional. They let me go through whatever I needed to go through in that scene.”
Editors note: This interview was recorded the day prior to the recent MGM+ announcement that “From” has been renewed for a fourth season.
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