EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: 'Banshee' Season 3 Star Hoon Lee Details 2015 Episodes' High Stakes, Job's Journey, Story Development & More About Cinemax's Most Violent Series!

Fans of Cinemax's most violent TV show, Banshee, are definitely in for a great new season in 2015 according to series star Hoon Lee. In a brand new, exclusive interview with the actor, we've learned some great details about the upcoming episodes and got to learn more about Lee's character, one of Sheriff Hood's partners in crime, Job. Lee also shared some teasers about plot details, story development and character depth that will show up starting with the season 3 premiere episode, "The Fire Trials." What else did we learn from the talented star? Read MStars News' exclusive interview with Hoon Lee below to find out more!

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What can fans expect from Banshee's third season?

I think a number of the people you'll speak to will probably talk about the escalation of stakes and scale. I think this is our most action packed season yet. We've taken a lot of what we've explored in the first two seasons and the arcs that have come out, and now we're starting some new chapters. There's the introduction of some new characters, there's a continuation of the friend that was picked up with Geno [Segers]. Geno's character changes a little, too. Really, it's sort of a metaphor for where the entire season ends up rolling, that there's this kind of moving, incredibly imposing, incredibly vindictive and righteous force moving through Banshee and all of these characters have to deal with it. That ends up becoming the sort of central part of the drama with the season. It's a great piece because you're dealing with a character that in many ways isn't a traditional bad guy. He's someone that has a legitimate place that he's working from, where as with Rabbit, that was something very personal, this one is social and politically charged as well.

Without giving away too much, can you share a tease of one of your favorite moments of the premiere episode?

Well they've always been pretty good about having Job come into the season in an interesting way. So I liked my introduction back. That was fun. It's always a question because Job, as a character, somewhat by his nature, is somebody just in the periphery and is a bit of an outsider. There's sort of a challenge, but also a unique opportunity that's created out of the question, "how do we bring this person back into the world?" Someone who doesn't want to be there, someone who doesn't have to be there, except for his ties of loyalty. So there's are always really fun for me to discover.

It seems like Lucas is always testing Job's nerves and asking him for a lot of favors. Will we see him really get fed up to the point of really testing the loyalty of the friendship?

I think in some ways Antony [Starr]'s character has entered this new environment. In doing so, has created problems for Job and for their relationship that haven't really existed before. Those two characters, out of everyone in the mythology, have known each other the longest. They have the most chronological history, so that ends up being a real source of strain, as we all know from our own families and people close to us. That history sometimes the thing that holds you back. So I do think that rather than the stress being caused by a particular set of actions, there's also this tension created by what Job knows of the past and where Antony's character is sort of striving to go in the future. So I really enjoy that tension and I think it's a very honest and true depiction of a lot of relationships.

Towards the end of the last season, you really got the chance to see a lot of action ...

I mean, we said it from the beginning that this is a world where everybody speaks one common language, which is violence. It's a world where violence is a means to an end; it's a necessity in a way. It's a way of life for a lot of people, and they resolve a lot of their personal conflicts and their interpersonal conflicts through combat and through violent means. In some ways you could argue that Antony's character in arriving in Banshee, it's almost like some sort of predestination. He lands in a town where everyone speaks his language. For me, when the script started to emerge and it became clear that Job was going to see some action along those lines, it made sense to me because he's part of that world and he's fluent in that world as well. They were really fun to do. Our stunt coordinator, Marcus Young, is tremendously good and often has to pull out of hats to deal with all the action we have to put on screen.

Is there going to be more of Job seeing that type of action in season 3?

I think it's pretty safe to say, yeah, and I think that's not just going to be related to Job, because as I say it's a world where that's sort of a language. It's a world where people have learned to deal with each other in this very extreme way. So I think it's pretty safe to say those themes will continue.

If Job ever received some sort of Banshee spin-off series, what do you think it would be about?

Oh my gosh! I would hope that some of the relationships that had been established in the series would continue because I find those to be the most rewarding. In general, relationships that develop an evolution, or dissolution, are the reasons why I personally, and I think a lot of people, watch television and drama. So I would hope we'd see Sugar [Frankie Faison], I'd hope we'd see Ant's character, those sorts of things. But the part of his life that I find intriguing is the idea that he's a very modern criminal. He's a criminal that deals with technology, primarily, that's one of his primary modes, which we have seen in some ways, but is also modern in the sense of being someone who experiments with social convention and gender convention. In some ways he's a character that's drawing on a lot of references that feel particularly current to me. So I would hope that any stories that revolved around Job specifically would sort of marry the select relationships that this outsider has managed to forge with this sort of explanation of what does it need to be outside the law and outside the society today.

How would you describe your experience with the fans of Banshee?

I cannot overemphasize how critical and how loyal the fan support has been. Our show is a small show by network standards. It's on a network that is actively and successfully striving to reinvent itself and to mature and evolve. And the fact that people not only surrender their time on a weekly basis to watch what we've done, but also go out of their way to display their support and vocalize their support- it really gives us a huge charge, and I think I speak for everybody, it gives us such a charge and motivation like you wouldn't believe. In a very real way these viewers are providing us a living doing what we love to do and I don't take that for granted. But also our shoots are long, hard, they're demanding physically, emotionally, and to know that you are working towards something that you want to show people, that you think people will love and embrace and make them cringe and make them terrified and make them joyful and make them feel triumphant, that's incredible fuel for the fire. So it's really impossible to state how vital it is.

What are some of your other, upcoming projects?

Well I'm fortunate enough to do a voice on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which I've done for several years. And that series has been continuing, which I'm very proud of as well, very happy about, and it feeds a different side of me and allows me to work on a different part of my profession, which I really enjoy. I'm a fan of the shows that I work on, which is a real blessing, but other than that, I've kind of started to nose around in trying to figure out what it takes to create properties from the other side, and create stories from the other side, whether that's writing or producing. Working on the shows I've been working on has been a tremendous education and I've become more and more curious about trying to deal with narrative in a more macro level. So that's been some of my focus in the off-season.

You can catch more of Hoon Lee in Banshee on Cinemax every Friday night at 10 PM EST.