David Lyons Talks ‘Revolution’ and Monroe’s Motivations

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David Lyons from ‘Revolution’ at Comic Con (Photo by: Michael Yaris/NBC)

David Lyons (‘Sebastian Monroe’) says that season two of NBC’s hit dramatic sci-fi series Revolution is a complete game-changer for his character. “I’ve lost everything. I’ve lost power, I’ve lost friends, I’ve lost my identity and my stability,” explained Lyons at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con where he joined his fellow Revolution cast members to discuss the show.

“When season [two] picks up, I’m not a drunkard but certainly a bit of a loner in a traveling carnival of sorts trying for coin in a whorehouse. That’s how it changes.”

And Lyons said he hopes that in season two, Monroe will develop into more of an anti-hero.

“I would love to see [that]. I think that he was alone at the top of the hill for the first days, and didn’t necessarily want to be. He was holding that tiger by the tail scared that it was going to turn around and eat him. He was just holding on for dear life, and destroying everyone and everything around him in order to hold on. Now, he’s lost that. He doesn’t need that, and I think that everyone in this show seems to be obsessed with power – I don’t think he is. I think he’s obsessed with the yearning for family, for love, and the need to be protected. I think that he’s had three months since the nuclear fall-out and that’s a lot of time to reflect on whatever it is he’s done,” explained Lyons. “So, I don’t know where they’re going to take him. I just hope that they start to move away from…we know that he can be psycho, but maybe he can be something else as well.”

Lyons also chatted about Monroe’s motivations and what took him by surprise about the character in our Comic-Con interview: