HOMESTEAD star Jesse Hutch says Season 2 will reveal the painful experiences his character has kept to himself.
“Yeah, that was actually one of my favorite sort of aspects of Season 2 is that we’re digging deeper into that,” Hutch told Movieguide® last month. For the actor, Evan Lee’s next chapter centers on something more personal than surviving another threat: learning to let someone in.
Hutch, who plays Evan in the Angel series, described the longing to have someone trustworthy enough to hear the things nobody else knows. He said Evan will gradually begin sharing experiences that have weighed heavily on him, giving viewers a deeper understanding of what he carries.
“But you have to get there,” he said. That slow movement toward trust matters to Hutch, who hopes the character’s struggles will connect with people who have served in the military.
Actress Betzaida Landín brings another perspective to the season through a new character whose faith shapes how she navigates the post-apocalyptic world. Landín described a woman who keeps looking for a better way forward rather than letting the surrounding chaos dictate every choice.
“I think, you know, without her faith, it would have been a lot harder,” Landín said. She expects that faith to influence the people her character encounters, too.
Hutch’s character doesn’t share that certainty. The actor identified himself as a believer in Christ while explaining why he values playing a man who isn’t one. Evan gives viewers room to recognize their own questions and resistance.
Hutch hopes people who don’t understand another character’s decision to pray will still feel welcome in the story. Rather than leaving those viewers outside the conversation, he wants them to see someone who voices the questions they might ask themselves.
That tension fits the stakes Angel outlines in its Season 2 synopsis: famine, disease and a ruthless religious leader threaten the community, forcing survivors to decide whether fear or faith will shape what they rebuild. The struggle isn’t simply to stay alive, but to decide how to live alongside one another.
Offscreen, Landín found a much warmer welcome than her character’s dangerous surroundings might suggest. She said Hutch helped her learn how the production worked, strengthening a friendship that also fed their scenes together.
“It’s been a dream come true,” she said. She described joining a cast that already operated like a family.
“They adopted me,” Landín added. That sense of belonging provided a welcome contrast to the emotional and physical challenges she described in the role.
Both actors also pointed to an intense scene they declined to spoil, with Hutch crediting the production team for giving them room to develop the moment. They want audiences to discover its emotional weight for themselves.
For families considering the series, Movieguide®’s review of Season 1’s first two episodes praised its Christian worldview while advising caution for intense peril and realistic violence. That assessment concerns those episodes, not a review of the new season.
For Hutch and Landín, the new season’s promise reaches beyond the danger: a guarded man begins to open up, and a woman carries her faith into a frightened community. Survival gives their characters another day; trust and faith shape what they do with it.
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