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The cast of season 2 felt a responsibility to their co-star to pick up the torch she left them following the shocking ending of season 1, which saw her character Juliette Nichols leave the silo and embark on a dangerous solo journey. Speaking to Yahoo UK, Ferguson's co-stars remarked on how affected they were by her absence on set, and how they hoped to replicate her great leadership. In the show's second season tensions begin to rise in the silo, with those living in its depths rising up against the tyranny of those in charge like the new mayor Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) who is keen to keep them in the dark about what happened to Juliette.

It's up to Juliette's friends like Knox (Shane McRae), Shirley (Remmie Milner), and Walker (Harriet Walter) to take charge and lead the rebellion that Juliette began. For the cast on set it was a case of life imitating art, they reveal, with McRae sharing: "We did miss her a lot, I think. We felt a responsibility too to pick up the ball, I mean she is such an incredible leader.



So not having her there, we really felt like we needed to just bring the heat. "It was a great challenge, it's hard. It was hard to not have Rebecca around, but she was around anyway [as an executive producer].

We got to hang out." Milner remarks that it was also "great" to feel Ferguson's absence in real life because it "completely fuels our storyline", and she adds: "So having that, knowing she's out there somewhere, somewhere just drives us even more." Walter,.

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