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Warning — This article contains spoilers from “The Magicians” series finale. “The Magicians” star Hale Appleman didn’t love the idea of a romance between his character, Eliot, and Charlton when he first heard about it. “I was a little resistant to the idea because I only ever thought of Charlton as Eliot’s Jiminy Cricket, as …
Warning — This article contains spoilers from “The Magicians” series finale.
“The Magicians” star Hale Appleman didn’t love the idea of a romance between his character, Eliot, and Charlton when he first heard about it.
“I was a little resistant to the idea because I only ever thought of Charlton as Eliot’s Jiminy Cricket, as his internal therapist, and I couldn’t see how it would make complete sense,” Appleman, 34, told Page Six on Wednesday.
But he said, “By the end of the series and the experiences that Eliot and Charlton shared over the course of this season, I feel like it unfolded in a really beautiful way.”
In the Syfy show’s series finale, Charlton — a character once trapped inside Eliot’s mind, often offering advice only Eliot could hear — is given a real body and shares a kiss with Eliot, asking if there could be a chance for them romantically.
“I don’t know that we’re saying Eliot and Charlton lived happily ever after. I don’t know that that’s the takeaway,” Appleman said of the pair’s future. “I think it’s a silver lining of hope, more than it is a life sentence or a period at the end of Eliot’s dating history.”
Appleman also told us he’s “grateful” for his five years on the show, which Syfy announced in March would not be renewed for Season 6.
“I grew up loving fantasy and in a way ‘The Magicians’ is a hybrid of the childhood dream that I had to live in a world like this as an actor and also to express a queer character that hadn’t really been seen in a fantasy genre in the same way that a character like Eliot was allowed to exist,” he said. “I guess, by that, I mean as a hero, as an underdog, as a damsel in distress, as more than just the witty queen, gay sidepiece that you see in a lot of TV series.”
While the entertainment industry is on hold during the coronavirus pandemic, Appleman hopes his next project will some type of period piece. “I would love to play in the 1930s, or the ’50s, or the 1800s, or you could put me in the ’70s.”
But until then, he said, “I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy and that they are remaining secluded and distant and reminding their families that are amino-compromised or elderly to remain safe and healthy.”
