TOM RILEY NEWS

Coming back for a second season, is it easier?

Tom Riley: In theory, yeah, because I think we found our tone by the end of the first season. We found what worked best for the show and how to push it in the right way, so we knew what we were coming back to and the characters already had foundations so you could put them in different configurations and let them fly. But at the same time, because it’s so bold, the second season, because we decided to leave Italy and go crazy, that was different, that was hard.

There's plenty of the same off-the-wall madness in Da Vinci's Demons, writer-producer David S. Goyer's delirious TV drama that returns for a second season 9 p.m. Saturday on Starz.

Off-the-wall?

Saturday's episode opens atop Machu Picchu (in present-day Peru) where holy men in terrifying masks are preparing to decapitate Leo as a sacrifice to the Incan sun god. Huh?! OK, let's come back to that.

Cinema Blend has a great preview article for tomorrow night's premiere of season 2. Read it in full on the site.

An interview with Tom and David S. Goyer discussing Da Vinci's Demons season 2, recorded last October at NYCC, has been uploaded to You Tube. 

The Da Vinci's Demons season 2 Access Hollywood interviews are not embeddable (and many have been deleted), so the links are provided below.

Tom Riley discussing da Vinci's submarine.

Tom Riley discussing his Riario impression.

An interview with Tom, recorded at the British Museum in February, has been uploaded to You Tube by George Satsidis.

Leonardo da Vinci (played by Tom Riley)

The first season found the genius inventor to be a cocky sort and one whose search for knowledge was almost artistic in its level of obsession, Riley says. "As a result, everyone around him would be collateral damage."

The next chapters in his life, however, find da Vinci's veering more toward the wise man of his later years and discovering that the negative influence he has on his friends is also a negative influence on himself.

The video interview with Tom and Laura Haddock, tweeted abut yesterday by Popsugar, has been shared online. Yahoo TV has shared hi-res versions of yesterday's arty photos.