Notice: This text accommodates spoilers from Season 2, Episode 4 of “Cross.”
“Cross” star Jeanine Mason unpacked her character Luz’s heartbreaking resolution to kill her love curiosity, Lincoln Esteban (Rene Moran), calling it a devastating actuality to her life as a vigilante.
“I believe that’s the gorgeous tragedy of her life is that she is in the end, earlier than something, earlier than attending to be a girl or a romantic or a pal, she is a warrior for the trigger,” Mason instructed TheWrap. “I believe she’s useless (inside) from the second you meet her within the (first episode of Season 2).
Because the second Luz, often known as Rebecca Matthews, hit the display screen in Season 2 of “Cross,” she’s meant nothing however enterprise. She’s on a mission fueled by vengeance, looking for to take down a company of human traffickers who murdered her mom Gabriela Porras — who could also be tied to billionaire Lance Durand (Matthew Lillard). In doing so, she’s garnered assist from a number of followers, together with Esteban, a freedom fighter who shares an identical objective as Luz’s to launch human trafficking victims.
Nonetheless, it doesn’t take lengthy for the pair to fall in love after their paths cross. Hoping to convey Esteban into her mission, she tries to set him up with a brand new id with plans for a future collectively.
But, with Cross and his crew rapidly connecting the dots, they in the end uncover the lodge Luz and Esteban are hiding out in. Esteban’s existence may jeopardize all of the work Luz has put in, and, due to that, she is compelled make the onerous resolution to kill Esteban. However, he loves her a lot and understands her willpower, that he willingly sacrifices himself.
Per Mason, that “entire storyline was possibly (her) favourite,” given Esteban was “so down and aligned along with her,” accepting that this was what needed to occur.
As Mason continued, she famous that Luz has one objective and nothing will cease her from attaining it.
“She’s on purchased time, and she or he’s operating by way of the mission. She’s like, I’ll arrive there, however a head rolling to the end line,” Mason stated. “And there’s simply numerous them which can be aligned in that zeal and depth, which simply makes it so enjoyable to look at these two folks. It’s like a disaster, a stunning one.”
New episodes of “Cross” arrive Wednesdays on Prime Video.
