Hanna has taken the titular young woman on a dark path, forcing her to grow from a girl in hiding with her father to a fierce woman that takes down organizations trying to turn her into a weapon. Alongside her former enemy (and now surprising ally) Marissa, Hanna spends the third and final season of the Prime Video series embarking on a globe-trotting mission, and times have never been more dangerous. In Season 3, Esme Creed-Miles and Mireille Enos receive more time together on-screen, and they bring the series to an exciting conclusion.
Ahead of Hanna's third season premiere on Amazon Prime on Nov. 24, CBR sat down for an exclusive interview with Esme Creed-Miles and Mirelle Enos to discuss the series' ending and detail how the thriller series evolved over the years. Creed-Miles teased that the show's ending gives "real closure" to Hanna, which Enos felt too and hopes that fans do as well.
CBR: The previous two seasons, Hanna was largely on the move -- running, spying, doing her best not to be captured. But then this season, there's a very deliberate mission for Hanna and Marissa. What was that to get to tackle with these characters that you have gotten to really know over the last few years?
Mireille Enos: To have them be in a unified cause for the first time and fight with everything they have, was exciting. With this season only being six episodes, it was a really boiled down, simmered, and focused season, which was great. Just for Marissa -- she's tackling her past, she's much more vulnerable and messy than we've seen her before. That's always really fun to play.
Esme Creed-Miles: I think this was a nice, concise six-episode arc. We knew that this was the closing chapter... So, it felt like this real closure for the show and for me anyway, as Hanna.
Enos: Yeah, from the very start I knew the arc. Even before Season 1, I knew what the arc was supposed to be. So to move towards the end of your story, to know that you're not cliffhanger-ing, that you're really concluding something, is a very satisfying feeling. It makes it feel more like making a movie instead of a TV show.
Esme, Hanna has grown so much across these years and gained more agency going into this season -- but then you also have to balance the fact that she still is a young woman. She falls in love with a pretty French boy because he talks philosophy really well. There's a real balance between those two elements of the character -- what was that like as a performer to tackle that?
Creed-Miles: It was nice. It was obviously nice to have something new to do, to have a little more to say. Hanna's very monosyllabic and I enjoyed having some dialogue, and some of those scenes with [new co-star Adam Bessa], we improvised a lot of stuff. And so, that was really wonderful to work with someone who... He's a very talented actor. I hadn't worked with Mireille so much in other seasons and I hadn't, of course, met Adam. So working with two actors who I think are truly phenomenal makes the job easy. We could create our own little world and I think add a lot of stuff to our characters. That was fun to play with.
Mireille, after two seasons of Marissa being this morally flexible figure, what's it like to bring the character to this very pointed arc for this final stretch of the show?
Enos: It gets very personal this season for [Marissa]. It has become more personal as she's learned to care for her Hanna more, but her mindset is still so goal-driven. She fixes a sight and she moves towards it, but it gets more personal the more she cares about Hanna... It turns up the dial for her. It means there's no option to back out. Not that she would've, but really everything is more charged.
You've gotten so much time together on this show. What lessons did you learn from one another?
Creed-Miles: I learned the most. Mireille's the dopest. She's such a good actress, but she's also the nicest and the most professional, respectful, diplomatic, smart, and eloquent -- just everything. She's perfect. I'm like a bull in a China shop. I show up on set smoking and I need to sometimes take a chill pill and remember my lines. I learned a lot from Mireille. She's really a role model for me. She's the kind of actress and woman and professional that I want to be in my career. I've never had a role model like that. So for me, that was amazing.
Hanna debuts its third and finals season on Nov. 24 on Prime Video.