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Evan Rachel Wood Still Doesn’t Know ‘Westworld’ Ending After Cancellation: “It Keeps Me Up at Night”

The HBO series ran for four seasons before being abruptly canceled in 2022, and creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy haven't shared the endgame they planned: "I think for us and the audience, it was awful in a lot of ways."

After a series of moves that see virtually the entire main cast die, Wood’s character Dolores — the original park’s oldest continuous host and its first to achieve self-awareness — is left with the chance to give humanity one final shot. On a mission to see her love, Teddy (James Marsden), and test humanity’s second chance in the Sublime (a digital plane of existence made by Westworld’s creator), the show teased one go around the loop, based on Dolores’s vision for a new world. Now, Wood — whose character was central to the series and the direction of the show’s last slate of episodes — tells THR that the abruptness of the cancellation was tough for both the cast and the audience due to the nature of how Nolan and Joy reveal story.

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