The stories of both Hanna (Esmé Creed-Miles) and Marissa Wiegler (Mireille Enos) wrap up in Hanna season 3, which is the final season of the Prime Video action series. In Hanna season 3, Hanna and Marissa team up to take down UTRAX and its chairman, Gordon Evans (Ray Liotta). Hanna season 3 pays off Hanna and Marissa's combative relationship that evolved into mutual trust and even affection.
Screen Rant interviewed Hanna's leads, Esmé Creed-Miles and Mireille Enos, about what they will miss about their iconic roles, working with Ray Liotta, and what it was like shooting Hanna season 3 in Europe during COVID.
Screen Rant: Esmé, after playing Hanna for 3 seasons, what was the best part of playing such a kickass role and what will you miss about her?
Esmé Creed-Miles: I will miss her general kickassedness because I am not a kickass person. I like to sleep in in the morning and I have not worked out in a couple of weeks. So I think [I'll miss] her ability to be so powerful and strong and defend herself. I wish I was like that. It was nice to play someone like that and I'll miss that.
Mireille, Marissa is also such a great character. She's complicated, dangerous, flawed, but she also tries to correct her mistakes. What will you miss most about playing Marissa?
Mireille Enos: There is something very satisfying about playing a character who is so driven, so focused, so composed. I mean, I can come apart in the morning because I'm running late. Marissa is just able to keep all those feelings so contained. That's a satisfying thing to play. I don't know if it would be so nice to actually be that person in life all the time but it does feel satisfying to play that. I've grown to really like her. I think I'll miss her.
Esmé, Hanna really grew a lot as a person in season 3. Can you talk a bit about her evolution and coming of age?
Esmé Creed-Miles: I think this season I was more empowered as a person. So I felt I had more conviction and I was more decisive about the things I wanted from my character and from a scene. And I think I just enabled me to embody her with a new kind of confidence that I think represents [Hanna's] growth and maturity.
You both worked opposite Ray Liotta this season. Can you both talk about your experiences working with him and his character, Gordon Evans?
Mireille Enos: I was kind of waiting with bated breath to find out who was going to be to playing this role. When I heard it was Ray Liotta, it was like jaw-drop full stop. He has such an ominous presence in film and I was hoping that wasn't true about him, that he wasn't actually a scary guy. He's a sweetheart, obviously. And he's so good at what he does. He's been around forever. When you get on a set with someone like that, you know you're being held in good hands, and you both get to dig in and do your work. I mean, that's the dream.
Esmé Creed-Miles: Yeah, he's just the coolest. He was the coolest coolest. He was awesome.
Over the three seasons, Hanna and Marissa went from archenemies to basically a mother and daughter. They had an against-all-odds relationship and closeness. Mireille, do you think there's a purity to Hanna that made Marissa want to turn over a new leaf?
Mireille Enos: We find out about Marissa in season 3 that her training started at a very, very young age. She could have had a life of being a normal person. She was set on this path to become kind of a perfect weapon. She is a weapon herself. That was Hanna's experience as well. She was an innocent, pure being who was turned into a weapon as well. I think that Marissa recognizing that about Hanna and that she's still young enough that there's an option that she could step off that path and have a much happier life than [Marissa] had becomes very important to her. To deliver her out of what my experience has been.
You shot season 3 during COVID in Europe. What was it like shooting season 3 under those circumstances?
Esmé Creed-Miles: It was really hard. I found it, probably out of all the cast, that it was the easiest for me because I don't have a family, I don't have children, and I just have my little life. But I think for everyone else, it was much harder missing their families and not being able to see them for such a long time. So we all just depended on each other for support. It brought us all closer together, I think.
Mireille Enos: Yeah, we all made this kind of funny little clan. We would eat soup and play cards and that got us through.
Hanna season 3 premieres November 24 on Prime Video.