{"id":518146,"date":"2026-07-09T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518146\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:33:11","slug":"silos-rebecca-ferguson-discusses-who-her-character-is-without-her-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518146\/","title":{"rendered":"Silo’s Rebecca Ferguson discusses who her character is without her memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Season 2 of AppleTV\u2019s hit post-apocalyptic thriller Silo<\/a> ended with the tenacious engineer turned sheriff Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) making it back from her trip to Silo 17 and warning Silo 18 that the outside world isn\u2019t safe. The season 3<\/a> premiere \u201cWho Are You?\u201d revealed that new head of IT Camille Sims (Alexandria Riley) has been keeping Juliette under control ever since by giving her memory-loss drugs. The effects are so strong that Juliette can\u2019t even recognize her best friends, and she\u2019s been turned into a figurehead mayor by her former enemies. But Ferguson tells Polygon that beneath her seemingly helpless exterior is the same fierce character who inspired a revolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019ve lived in a character for so long, the character is so sedimented,\u201d Ferguson said in a video interview. \u201cThere\u2019s a DNA to her. It\u2019s the way she walks. It\u2019s the way she handles people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferguson said that Juliette has grown a lot across those seasons. The socially awkward engineer has had to make lots of new alliances, especially last season when she \u201cwas thrown into a Silo with one really weird man\u201d and worked with the childlike Solo (Steve Zahn) to both fix Silo 17 and make it back to her own home.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTaking away all this memory, there\u2019s still all the rooted character creation that we have done,\u201d Ferguson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho Are You?\u201d demonstrated Camille\u2019s drugs aren\u2019t perfect. Juliette remembers speaking with the former head of IT Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) outside the Silo and that there\u2019s something very important she needs to do. A lot of work went into mapping Juliette\u2019s key memories and what would come to the surface.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had two writers who just worked on memory,\u201d showrunner Graham Yost told Polygon.<\/p>\n

Season 3, episode 2, \u201cIt\u2019s All Good,\u201d which premieres on July 10, peels back more of those layers as it reveals the way Juliette is being controlled and how she might be able to recover. Apple provided Polygon with an exclusive clip showing Juliette reuniting with some of her most reluctant allies \u2013 smuggler Patrick Kennedy (Rick Gomez), hacker Danny (Will Merrick), and sheriff\u2019s department clerk Sandy (Chipo Chung) \u2013 who want to know what really happened when she was sent out of the Silo.<\/p>\n

Silo 18 is in a lot of danger if Juliette can\u2019t remember Solo\u2019s warning about the poison that could kill everyone inside. Suppressing Juliette\u2019s memories might have created a temporary peace, but it doesn\u2019t seem to be a sustainable solution to the crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season 2 of AppleTV\u2019s hit post-apocalyptic thriller Silo ended with the tenacious engineer turned sheriff Juliette Nichols (Rebecca…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-518146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}