Tom Blyth Teases Danger For Billy The Kid In Season 2 & Hopes For Coriolanus Snow's Future

Summary Season 2 of Billy the Kid returns with intense drama and historical twists, including a showdown with Jesse Evans at Blazer's Mill.

The introduction of Pat Garrett as Sheriff adds tension as Billy's fate hangs in the balance, with the clock ticking towards a dramatic finale.

Expect more action, romance, and surprises in the final four episodes, delving into Billy's relationships and moral struggles in the Old West.

Billy the Kid season 2 returns to MGM+ on June 2 with episode 5, titled "A Debt Collected." Starring The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' Tom Blyth as the infamous outlaw, the series highlights Henry McCarty's troubled youth and how he joined forces with Jesse Evans before ending up on opposite sides during the Lincoln County War in season 2. The show also stars Daniel Webber, Alex Roe, and Nuria Vega, along with a large ensemble cast representing some of the most legendary historical figures of Billy The Kid's time period.

Season 2, episode 4 ended with The Regulators and Jesse Evans' Gang facing off at the Battle of Blazer's Mill, but the stakes were raised even higher when Pat Garrett was named the new Sheriff. History buffs know he is the one to hunt down the outlaw and end his life, and with Billy The Kid not renewed for season 3, William Bonney's fate may hang in the balance when the finale comes. In the meantime, fans can expect plenty more shootouts and some added romance in the episodes to come.

Related Billy The Kid Season 3: Will It Happen? Everything We Know Billy the Kid season 3 will pick up after the events of the Lincoln County War for the next chapter in the life of Tom Blyth's infamous outlaw.

Screen Rant interviewed Blyth about what to expect in the final four episodes of Billy The Kid season 2, how it might veer off the historical path, and why he's not yet done with The Hunger Games franchise.

Changing Dynamics In Billy The Kid Season 2, Part 2

“We're not watching a documentary, we're watching a dramatization."

Screen Rant: Jesse Evans was once a brother to Billy, and is now very much on the opposite side as the war is in full force. What has it been like to play the loss of that friendship alongside all of the animosity?

Tom Blyth: Good question. They are brothers, and in the first four episodes of this season, I think we saw that even though they've ended up on opposite sides of this war, they have a mutual respect for each other that they can't quite get away from. We see that Jesse could have killed him; he had him at the end of his gun and could have got him. And the same with Billy at one point too, when he rescues Charlie, he could have taken Jesse out and had one less a**hole - pardon my French - to deal with. He could have made his life a lot easier, but neither of them chose to, which is a really fascinating relationship to see play out on the screen. It almost feels like watching two people who have served on a sports team together who then have to play on opposite sides. There's a mutual admiration there, which means they can't quite bring each other to have animosity towards each other. But at the same time, there's all this pent-up resentment now that they're not on each other's side. So, it's fascinating. I love Daniel [Webber] and the way he plays Jesse. He's such a good villain. He doesn't play him like a villain; he plays him like someone who thinks he's right, and he plays with such physicality and strength. It's really cool.

Going into the final four episodes of the season, Pat Garrett is now sheriff, so we know the clock is ticking. What does that mean for Billy? Can we talk about diving into your final boss, historically speaking?

Tom Blyth: We don't know for sure because Michael Hirst will lead you down a path where you think it's going to go the historical way, and then it'll surprise you, which I love. He's not afraid to say, "We've already seen the documentary version of this. We're not watching a documentary, we're watching a dramatization." And with that comes the freedom to slightly veer off the path and find a way to tell history and fill in the gaps. And there are so many gaps that we don't really know for sure what happened. To the point where some people think he lived, and some people think he died. Those are the two polar opposites of what could have happened to him, so there are all these options in between along the way that Michael is willing to explore. But when it comes to Pat, I think he's such a cool character. I mean, first of all, Alex [Roe] is just cool. He plays him with such an easy swagger, with that massive mustache, which does all the acting for him. He doesn't even have to act. If I could grow it one, I wouldn't even have to act. It does everything for you. He's got it easy with that thing. I'll just squeeze a few hairs out. I'll do what I can. Yeah, I think he signals danger. We know that Pat's jealous of Billy, and we know that he wants to use Billy to build his own name. He always has since he first met him, so I think that - whatever it is - it signals danger for Billy.

More Romance & Action Awaits In Billy The Kid Season 2, Part 2

Watch out for Buckshot Roberts in season 2, episode 5

Speaking of filling in the gaps, your relationship with Dulcinea is far from severed, and we see that she's very much a factor in these final four episodes. Can you talk about his feelings for her and how they're used against him?

Tom Blyth: Yeah, it's the classic hero thing, right? Your enemies will use the person that's closest to you to get to you, and that happens in this next block of episodes. When we left them at the beginning of the season, she was not about it. She wanted him to give up the life, but he wasn't ready to give up the life. He had to avenge Tunstall; he's full of revenge. He feels like he has to honor his friend's death, and with that, he risks severing the love of his life from his life. But I think we see her come back in a big way in part 2, and as she gets to do some really cool stuff. I won't spoil anything, but she becomes kind of a heroine to herself. She's a badass.

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Is there an episode in this back half that is most meaningful to you? Is there any episode where you had the most fun or felt the most pride during filming?

Tom Blyth: Honestly, I really love part 2. I think it's really special. I think it is actually very special television, and we got very lucky. We ended up in the snow because we had to film it in the winter, so it added a whole new layer and a new character to this story, which is the dangerous elements. I think it upped the ante even more, so I'm really excited for fans to see it. But I think episode 5 [is my favorite]. There's a sequence with me and Buckshot Roberts, who has become one of the villains on the side of the House, that is a really cool action sequence. He gets his moment to really go rogue at the beginning of part 2, and I'm excited for everyone to see that.

Drawing Parallels Between Billy The Kid And The Hunger Games’ Coriolanus Snow

“There's more to Coriolanus’ story to delve into.”

One thing I really love about Billy The Kid is that we see his moral compass disintegrate over the course of two seasons, which reminds me of Coriolanus Snow. What is it that draws you to this innocence-to-infamy pipeline?

Tom Blyth: That is the best way that anyone has put that. That's amazing. I have to write that in my diary. I am really drawn to those characters, and I think they are usually the best-written characters. They're usually the characters that have the most depth and nuance and the most ups and downs, lefts and rights to explore when playing them. They're also just the characters that I loved watching when I was growing up. Characters that Michael Fassbender or Gary Oldman would play; these complicated characters. Even back in the day, Humphrey Bogart. When you think about the characters he would play, none of them were good or bad. They were always complicated, and I've always been interested in that.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was a smash hit. If we do go back to Panem, which the world clearly wants to, would you want to continue playing Snow?

Tom Blyth: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be a no-brainer. I feel like I was so fortunate to get to step into that world, and I really love everyone involved: Francis Lawrence, Nina Jacobson, and Suzanne Collins. But it would be really cool to keep digging into that story, and I do think fans feel this too. I think they were very excited to reignite the world, and I think people feel like within that reigniting, there's more to do. There are more stories to delve into. I do think there's more to Coriolanus’ story to delve into, whether he's the lead character or whether he's a periphery character and we look at someone else's story. But I think it'd be fascinating to see his continued rise to power and what happens along the way.

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In Season 2 of Billy the Kid, Billy gets caught in the middle of the Lincoln County War, a murderous conflict driven by money, greed and corruption. After enjoying a monopoly, Murphy's Store is no longer the only player in town when Englishman John Tunstall moves to Lincoln and sets off a commercial rivalry. Law and order is no match for cowboy gangs and a secret society. Wild chases and shootouts abound. There are innumerable ambushes and killings. No one is safe. After a pivotal assassination, things get very ugly, leaving Billy the Kid with an uncertain fate. Will he make it out of the Lincoln County War alive?

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Billy The Kid season 2, episode 5 premieres June 2 on MGM+.

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