'Quantum Leap' Cast Teases Season 2 Story Lines After Ben Plot Twist

The Quantum Leap midseason finale left Us with so many questions — and the cast is offering some hints about what’s still to come in season 2.

Before the bombshell Wednesday, December 13, episode, stars Ernie Hudson, Nanrisa Lee and Mason Alexander Park completely opened up to Us Weekly about how the second one season of the NBC series differed from the first.

“It used to be in reality cool to see the feedback roll in actual time [for season 1 as we started filming the second one season]. Especially main as much as the season finale, as a result of there were such a lot of large story points that happened towards the top that really kept upping the ante,” Park, 28, explained. “As we’re construction out season 2, we will [now] speak about the way it in reality does feel so much larger and it appears like we’ve even discovered ways to make the display even more intense and much more insane.”

While Park has enjoyed getting to peer audience react as the season improved, Lee, 43, has preferred taking a step again.

“In phrases of the reception, we had been all simply so overjoyed to be there. We actually liked the show. We were having a actually good time making it. I used to be having a great time making it,” she informed Us about her revel in filming the primary season. “For me individually, I don’t read a ton about essential feedback or message boards or things like that. You don’t have time when you’re making the show. So to me it felt like type of a perfect storm of just you stay your head down, do your work, thoughts your online business and keep out of hassle.”

Quantum Leap, which is a revival of the ‘90s science-fiction series, follows Ben (Raymond Lee) after he makes a secret leap thru time and gets misplaced prior to now. With lend a hand from his ex Addison (Caitlin Bassett) and the remainder of the Quantum Leap crew, Ben tries to figure out what caused him to vary history.

Wednesday’s midseason finale presented a significant twist when Addison’s new boyfriend — and the brand new chief of the Quantum Leap workforce — Tom (Peter Gadiot) printed that there might be a solution to finally return Ben to the current.

Keep scrolling to see Hudson, Lee and Park spoil down all of Us‘ burning questions on what’s to come in the remainder of season 2 and the way forward for the show:

The Ben Reveal

Ben probably coming back to the present threw Us for a loop because it sounds too just right to be true. According to Park, Ben’s attainable go back method the entire premise of Quantum Leap falls aside.

“If Ben is back, we’re unemployed,” Park joked. “Obviously, as the characters, we all need to see answer with that story line. We’ve been running years and years — particularly with the time leap — to convey this particular person again. I could most probably speak for all folks to say that as characters we wish Ben again.”

Park endured: “As an actor, I wish to make extra episodes. So I’m positive that [the writers room] has plans that I’m really occupied with for all of the quite a lot of tactics by which the display goes to proceed from this to the season finale, which I think is actually, in point of fact rad.”

Hudson, 77, meanwhile, is ready to see how the plot twist plays out before getting his hopes up.

“It’s what we come into [with] trusting the producers and the writers crew. We all surely as characters really need [Ben to return again], but I’m additionally trusting that they've seemed further forward. As we have been announcing, we like the surprise of what comes subsequent,” he detailed to Us. “And if Ben’s again, I’m sure it’s going to be very fascinating. I’m eager about the likelihood and I’m form of taking it all in one episode at a time. But the possibilities are just all out there.”

Lee also praised the writers for pushing the boundaries they themselves created, adding, “It would beautiful significantly exchange the layout of the show. But if it did occur, I am positive our writers would find some really amusing and interesting ways to develop that and possibly get some other leaper in the market.”

What Fans Can Expect From the Rest of Season 2

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While the first half of season 2 completed airing, the cast is currently on set filming the remainder episodes. Without giving any spoilers away, the trio were ready to tease where the story can go from here and the way it sets up the display’s long run.

“What’s really thrilling for me is [the best way] there are the characters, [but] there’s any other massive part of it, [which] is the folks behind the Pentagon. All the ones forces that make this possible that we really don’t control,” Hudson pointed out about possible threats. “They affect everything and how they’ll come into play as we transfer forward is a thriller. But it's also very, very exciting. It’s no longer all just up to us to just be ok with every different. There are different components that really type of flip things upside down and sideways.”

Park opted out of providing hints about how season 2 performs out as a result of they know their “limits,” joking, “I’ll damage something by some means,”

Lee, for her part, reminded audience to evolving character arcs as well as story lines.

“Season 2 has had extra of a focus at the relationships. Between what’s going on with Ben and Addison in combination and one at a time [on an emotional degree], in addition to the remainder of the group and what everyone is kind of grappling with,” she noted. “It’s a really nice opportunity for the target audience to get to understand different sides of these characters. Some of those things tend to build and we see some arcs of the ones issues. But past that, I will be able to’t divulge an excessive amount of.”

How Much They Know About Their Character’s Upcoming Story Lines

“For me, I’d slightly type of uncover it as we go alongside. But I feel if there’s some primary issues which are about to happen, it’s more or less nice to remember as it affects everything that comes [ahead of it],” Hudson shared. “I don’t need to be totally naive about it, however as much as imaginable, I’d love to more or less discover it in the same approach the target market does.”

Park instructed Us they would “get made amusing of so much” on set for “no longer studying forward” in their scripts.

“Nanrisa gives me a really exhausting time with the level of uncertainty that I perhaps method some things with. But there’s so much amusing in discovery. There’s so much a laugh in seeing what the writers get a hold of each week, especially since the display does move to in point of fact wild puts and it does shift lovely significantly actually briefly,” they gushed. “I take a look at to not get too hooked up to story lines or get too connected to an idea of what could occur as a result of odds are they’re going to throw a curveball at us anyway.”

Lee, in the meantime, enjoys attaining out to her cast participants to unpack the big twists.

“Definitely, on a couple of instance, I’ll text the [cast] thread simply, like, all capitals after a script gets launched to us. It’s thrilling to be a part of an ongoing collection where large things happen,” she famous. “I like being surprised, however like Mason said, if it’s something that’s immediately attached to our character, we get a heads up about it.

The actress concluded: “As far as the twists and turns of things which might be happening with this system or within the leap, we simply got person who I may just no longer include myself [about]. I simply learn it the opposite evening. It was once insane. It’s going to be in point of fact, in point of fact, beautiful thrilling to take care of.”

Their Favorite Guest Stars — and Their Dream Additions

Lee famous that it used to be a laugh having Justin Hartley and his real-life wife, Sofia Pernas, seem on an episode all through season 1. She also applauded Bel-Air’s Diandra Lyle for taking part in a district lawyer when Ben leaps into the Eighties.

Park joked that they have been “selfishly thrilled” with their real-life partner Alice Kremelberg‘s presence at the display because of the glimpse enthusiasts have gotten into their persona Ian’s non-public lifestyles.

“We’ve sought after to do one thing together for a very long time, in order that was once any such nice treat to find out that the writers in point of fact did need to make it happen in the future,” they shared. “It used to be something that we had talked about actually during the pilot. So that was once in reality cool to peer it sort of come to fruition and or not it's more than just a one episode, one-off roughly revel in. It is good for Ian to have any person to play off of that. We’ve now seen [Ian and Rachel in combination] four occasions, which has been great.”

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Hudson concluded by declaring how Quantum Leap uplifts its guest stars.

“The manner the display is set up, it truly provides them a lot to come back and play. It’s no longer just making an look, the episodes are actually written in a way that they in point of fact get to show what they do,” he mentioned. “Stan Shaw, who’s been a pal of mine for years, to see him come on and have amusing, that was in point of fact vital to me. And, after all, I believe like for the fanatics, without equal visitor celebrity could be to look Sam Beckett [performed by Scott Bakula] come again [from the OG sequence].”