Beau Smith – Wynonna Earp – Comic Con 2018

By: Brittany Dailey

Q) Talk about the bad guys to come in Season 3 of “Wynonna Earp.”

Beau: Bulshar, which you also saw first thing, is a stone cold bad guy and there are minions in Season 3. Again, it’s not stock bad guy from here and stock bad guy from there. Each one you are going to go, “Emily is going to bring this guy (or this girl) back?” This is a very special season. If I were an actor (a Canadian actor especially) and I got the chance to work on “Wynonna Earp” I would jump on it because this is going to have people following your career for the next ten years with the stuff that she’s doing. And she’s pulling some stuff out of the sack of her past, too. Mentally, she’s just that brilliant, fast and smart. She knows what to give people as far as compelling stories. I mean, I’ve been writing for thirty years and if I could get an ounce of that every once and a while for the books I’d be a happy man. And I’m a happy man most of the time anyway.

Q) Is there anything you are most excited about this season?

Beau: What I’m excited about is that there is a Point A to Point B linear storyline with Season 3. But it really does not compare to all of the work she is going to do with these characters and situations. Some of these confrontations and situations will take up five minutes of an episode and some of them will take up the entirety. They are all important. I’m just so impressed. And, again, it’s not just me talking up Emily [Andras]. It’s impressive stuff. And everybody thinks of us as the little Canadian show with the low budget. I don’t know what kind of awards are given out in Canada for writing, but she’s done an amazing job. The directors that they have picked for each of these episodes some of them are new and some of them have done this before. It’s seamless and each one of them adds their bit of story. And we haven’t even touched on the past with what they can do. It’s ice cream and cake. It really is.

Q) How would you describe Season 3?

Beau: This season can be caffeine. It can be Red Bull and whiskey at the same time. You are going to have to watch these episodes. You’ll watch them once and then you are going to rewatch them and then want to rewatch them with closed captioning. They are just so much fun and there are at least three layers in each episode. I hope that makes sense.

Q) What are some moments that shine through for you throughout the series?

Beau: I can say that whether we go on for five, six or fifteen years – that first season always means the most to me and always will. We did not film that season in the dead of Winter like we have the last couple seasons. That blue sky atmosphere and that innocence of that first season means so much to me. I look at it now and I see young Dolls (Shamier Anderson) and young Doc (if that’s possible). I see all of those characters in a young, innocent way. And I know we’ll never be able to go back to that, so I know I’ll always have that to watch. Season 2 was rip snorting right from the get-go and Season 3 is very cerebral in what she has done. I think of Season 1 and Doc (Tim Rozon) sitting in that car with the windshield wipers and the automatic windows and him thinking, “What is this?” I love Dolls at the beginning when he knew he had to be a hard ass with Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano). That was a new experience for the character. He was like, “She’s a girl?! She’s a tough human being.” And that was telling. Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), in that first season, was (again, like she always is) the twinkle, the heart and the sunlight of the whole thing. Bobo Del Rey…Michael Eklund. When they were in the camp and Doc had to chain the guy up to fry…That to me still gives me tingles watching Michael Eklund and Tim go into that scene. That was Emmy winning stuff. They both showed exactly what kind of actors they are.