WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 2 of Homecoming, now available on Amazon Prime Video.

In the first season of Homecoming, Hong Chau’s character, Audrey Temple, was an unassuming receptionist, seemingly insignificant to the story as a whole. That is, until her final scene, when she rose to an unexpected position of power at Geist Group. Now in Season 2, fans finally get to know Audrey Temple, and so did Chau.

In a virtual roundtable, Chau spoke about being surprised by what she learned about Audrey and the challenges she faced bringing new dimensions of the character to life.

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Chau noted that while her character came out of nowhere to take power at the end of Homecoming's first season, Chau herself had very little information about what was happening or why. "I did not feel like I knew my character very well at all in the first season," Chau confessed. "I felt like I was really flying blind. That scene that we end the first season with was very tricky and difficult for me to do because I didn't know what the Geist Corporation was, I didn't know what that thing I was putting on my wrist was, I didn't know what I was asking Bobby Cannavale’s character to sign was. I didn't really know anything. It was really the scariest place to be as an actor when you have so little information and yet you're supposed to make such a strong choice. And it worked out, but I was very glad to learn more about Audrey Temple in the second season."

Still, the information Chau was given about her character in Season 2 was unexpected. "I was a little surprised after finishing reading the seven episodes of the second season, because of the way we ended the first season," Chau shared. "I thought that we would continue with that trajectory for Audrey. I thought that we would see her really come into her power and just be this demon slayer woman at Geist, and that wasn't the direction that they took in Season 2.

"And I was really taken aback and I had to think about it because… the Audrey Temple that we see in Season 2 is a very gentle and insecure and patient person," Chau continued, "and that's not where I thought we were going to go with the character. So for me, the challenge as an actor was to find out what the motor was and how to make the character seem active, even though she seemed to be gentle and passive by nature. It was a very interesting direction, and not one that I was expecting."

Yet, while the character surprised her, Chau also saw her job as putting herself in Audrey’s mindset, ever when some of her decisions were morally ambiguous. "I personally never try to judge what the character does," Chau noted. "I always try to think about it in terms of the character that has been defined and set up within the script, and whether it makes sense that that person would do what they did. And I think that maybe I wouldn't have done the things that Audrey did, but it made sense to me why she did what she did.

"I think the show also illustrates how difficult it is to make the morally correct decision in the face of a lot of professional and economic pressure," Chau added. "It influences us, even if we are good people, it just influences us in a very powerful way. And I think any person watching will be able to empathize with the characters, no matter who they are."

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Watchmen fans may also recognize Chau as Lady Trieu from HBO’s acclaimed limited series. Chau spoke about the differences between her two roles in Watchmen and Homecoming, and the challenge of transitioning from one character to the other. "I shot Watchmen before Homecoming," Chau said, "but thankfully I had like a month-long break in between the two projects, so I was able to really transition into Audrey Temple's character. She's so completely different from Lady Trieu, who is ruthless and pretty unforgiving. And that's the opposite of Audrey Temple. So it did take a little bit of switching gears to put myself into the mindset of a person who is very insecure and questioning and a little bit lost at times.

"The scenes that were the hardest for me to do in Homecoming were the ones where I felt like Audrey was just saying, 'What? Huh? Who?' It’s really difficult those scenes, because as a person, Hong, I just want to stand her up and make her believe in herself and go after what she wants and to speak up for herself, but I also understand why that's difficult for somebody like her. And it was an interesting challenge as an actor to play somebody who is sort of passive on the page and to give them a sense of destination."

Starring Janelle Monae, Hong Chau, Joan Cusack, Chris Cooper and Stephan James, the seven-episode second season of Homecoming is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

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