Regina King on returning to Watchmen: "I can see myself being involved in a Season 2 if it was really smart"

The Hollywood Reporter

"I would need to know the beginning and the endgame, unlike how this season was," King told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, the day after the season finale. "I did not know what the endgame was. I just totally trust Damon (Lindelof). I don't know. There's a part of me that feels like… it's just really hard to think we could top season one, you know? There's that part of me, probably the ego side, that thinks, 'Yeah, I want to see what I can do with all those powers.' But the storytelling lover in me, the side that loves watching and reading a good story, wouldn't want it to (happen) unless it was so smart, with a possibility of hiding easter eggs, creating new places to go, that it made sense and still connected to the world that was created in the first season. That would have to happen. I don't know. It seems kind of hard to accomplish that." King added that she had no idea the Watchmen poster contained a major clue about Angela Abar's fate. "I was on social media yesterday and saw a lot of people with the poster up saying, 'It was right in front of us all along!' And I went, 'Oh my god… it was right in front of me all along!' Jesus, I didn't even see it!" King said of her overall Watchmen experience: "I feel like I was part of a huge group of virtuosos," she says. "I couldn't have had a better band, as far as this cast. I still pinch myself. I'm still pinching myself over episode two and the work I got to do with Lou Gossett. I still pinch myself over episode four, and the work I got to do with Jean Smart. These are the moments as an actor where you walk home at the end of the day and go, 'Yup. Thank you, God. Thanks for that opportunity.'"