{"id":115336,"date":"2025-08-28T03:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115336\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:45:06","slug":"piper-perabo-looks-ahead-to-a-season-2-for-villain-juno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115336\/","title":{"rendered":"Piper Perabo Looks Ahead to a Season 2 for Villain Juno"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t[This story contains spoilers from the season one finale of Butterfly<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

\n\tPrime Video\u2019s new K-drama spy series Butterfly isn\u2019t Piper Perabo<\/a>\u2019s first rodeo in the world of espionage. And even though she doesn\u2019t actually throw a punch in the six-episode action-filled series that was filmed throughout the cities and countryside of South Korea, Perabo is quick to share that she\u2019s not afraid to mix it up with fists, feet or whatever it takes to eliminate a threat.<\/p>\n

\n\tPlaying the main villain who causes the mayhem in the Daniel Dae Kim-starring series<\/a> suits the actor just fine for now \u2014 in hopes that a season two could see her\u00a0character, Juno, really letting hand-to-hand combat and bullets fly following that cliffhanger season one finale.<\/p>\n

\n\tJuno will likely have to get more physical if season two is a go, as viewers saw in the finale that\u00a0she\u2019s now on\u00a0the\u00a0run, via a private plane, to escape just as her prot\u00e9g\u00e9 and top killer, Rebecca (Reina Hardesty), entered the restroom of a small diner with the second wife of her father, David Jung (Kim). Rebecca is the daughter of David\u2019s first wife, and she\u2019s the child he abandoned about nine years earlier <\/a>after Juno tried to kill him for wanting to leave the agency they created together called Caddis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Rebecca and his wife, Eunju (Kim Tae-hee), take too long to return from the restroom,\u00a0David gets suspicious\u00a0and entered the bathroom to find his wife bleeding from a neck wound, and his daughter nowhere to be found. Could Juno be behind this treachery, as payback for David destroying her spy corporation and for changing his oldest daughter into a killer?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI like being the bad guy,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t get to portray villains a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter recently caught up with Perabo in Montreal at a film premiere, and she was chomping at the bits to discuss the rigors of being a ruthless villain and loving mother in Butterfly\u2018s cutthroat world of espionage, the beauty of\u00a0filming in South Korea and why her Hollywood characters are never timid about throwing hands, if necessary.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tYou have done straight drama and comedy, but your forte lately has been action! <\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m drawn to all the genres. I don\u2019t really read graphic novels, and I haven\u2019t done anything that has that kind of source material before. Also, Daniel Dae Kim<\/a> is an old friend of mine. We did an action movie together like 20 years ago, and stayed friends ever since. I was really interested in working in Korea. That brought a new twist to the source material, and obviously Dan, being Korean American, has such authentic insight into that place. I knew it would be fun to see that country with a friend who knows so much about it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat was your first time in Korea?<\/p>\n

\n\tYes. When he called me and was like, \u201cYou want to spend six months in Korea?\u201d I was like, \u201cActually, yeah! Am I going to be stuck in Seoul all of that time?\u201d And he said no. We ended up filming in 20 different cities all over Korea. It was so cool to see a country that way. Our crew was Korean, and most of the actors in the show are Korean. It was a really amazing experience.<\/p>\n

\n\tGetting into the series, what was Juno\u2019s motivation? Is she the ultimate narcissist or just a cold-blooded killer who loves money and who is power hungry?<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it comes to business, Juno has decided she\u2019s going to work for the highest bidder. That\u2019s where she and David really parted ways. He wanted to make sure he was doing good in the world, and Juno decided that if you\u2019ve got the money, you can hire her. On a deeper level, what I like about the story is that it\u2019s one about a family of divorce. Juno got the kids. When David comes back, he\u2019s not okay with that arrangement, and the kids are stuck in the middle. I like the action and I love the spy genre, but when I realized it\u2019s a family drama right under the surface, that really appealed to me.<\/p>\n

\n\tI want to ask you a similar question that I asked Daniel in a recent conversation<\/a>: Does Juno love Rebecca, or does she love her assassinating skills?<\/p>\n

\n\tI think it\u2019s complicated. I think Juno really loves Rebecca, but also\u2026 like when I was in high school and you\u2019re playing a sport and there are parents on the sidelines, those parents that scream from the sidelines who are too invested in the outcome of the game? That puts so much pressure on the kid. And that\u2019s how I think about Juno. She\u2019s one of those parents who walks onto the high school field and is screaming at the ref. And you\u2019re like, \u201cHey, hey, it\u2019s a kid.\u201d \u00a0But Juno takes it to the global level.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tLouis Landau with Piper Perabo in Butterfly.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrime Video<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, it seemed quite clear that she loves her son, Oliver (Louis Landau). But as her business and life starts to unravel, and she thinks Oliver has betrayed her, do you believe she ever gave serious thought about killing her only biological child?<\/p>\n

\n\tThe problem with Oliver is that it\u2019s another kind of family problem, like those parents who think one kid is great at sports and the other sucks. (Laughs.) It\u2019s so hard to be that kid, and I feel like Oliver lives in that space. Juno sees a lot of herself in Oliver, and she wants to believe that he can rise to her level, but so far he hasn\u2019t shown her that and it\u2019s tense.<\/p>\n

\n\tWere you angling for more action in this series, or did you want to take a break and let the other stunt women handle this one?<\/p>\n

\n\tI said to Ken Woodruff and Steph Cha, the writers, \u201cYou know, if Juno has to mix it up in season two, I\u2019m into it!\u201d I remember calling Daniel one night after he was filming a fight scene all night. He was like, \u201cI\u2019m not as young as I used to be (laughs).\u201d I know that it\u2019s hard, but I\u2019ve always been interested in action sequences and that kind of fight choreography is interesting to me.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs I was thinking about asking you that question, the thought came across my mind, \u201cIsn\u2019t Piper the same woman who got into a physical and bloody brawl with Beth Dutton<\/a>?\u201d [In the fifth season of Yellowstone<\/a>, Perabo played John Dutton\u2019s activist love interest, Summer, who was under house arrest at the family ranch. Beth wasn\u2019t having any of it, which culminated in a violent altercation between the two ladies on the front lawn.]<\/p>\n

\n\t(Laughs.) Exactly! I can fight! I may not win, but I\u2019ll get in there!<\/p>\n

\n\tI have to ask about the finale. Where do you think Juno went when you got on the private jet, and do you think she had anything to do with David\u2019s second wife, Eunju (Kim Tae-hee), having her throat cut in the bathroom of the small diner? Of course, we don\u2019t know if Eunju died.<\/p>\n

\n\tI personally hope she didn\u2019t die, because Kim Tae-hee\u2019s playing such a good actor. But Juno had a plane waiting, her right-hand man is still with her, and Juno had access to a lot of funds. In this world, money and a plane can get you pretty safe. But I don\u2019t know. I was thinking about cracking that last scene. And when I think about where we would go from there, I don\u2019t know what the writers want, but I feel that is how she could get out of Seoul. When you have a U.S. Senator on your trail [Senator Dawson played by Charles Parnell], there are limited places you can hide. But she has a lot of funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWere you into Korean movies and Korean television shows before signing onto Butterfly?<\/p>\n

\n\tKorean movies and Korean directors, for sure. When I got to Korea, I realized it\u2019s even bigger than K-drama. In Korea they call it the K-Wave. There is a massive cultural output<\/a> that is happening in Korea. In the entertainment system, we are aware that K-filmmaking is so prevalent in our business. But when you get there, you realize, \u201cOh my gosh, there\u2019s so much coming!\u201d There\u2019s a renaissance happening in Korean culture right now.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s next for you, while hoping there\u2019s a season two of Butterfly? And if there is one, how do you think Juno will evolve, if at all?<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, I like being the bad guy. I don\u2019t get to portray villains a lot. I kind of like how messed up she is. I like filming in Korea so much, and I like that it is a uniquely Asian\/American story. And because Juno has to escape, I\u2019m curious about where she would go. There are so many incredible cities in Southeast Asia. But I would love to stay in that part of the world, because I think it is beautiful and interesting, and it could add a lot to the show.<\/p>\n

\n\tI had a film at Cannes this year called Peak Everything. It\u2019s a Montreal indie film.\u00a0We just found out that we are going to be the closing night film at TIFF. It\u2019s very different than Butterfly, and it is fun to go back and forth between them.<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

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