‘Paradise’: Sterling K. Brown Teases Favorite Moment with Wife Ryan Michelle Bathe (Exclusive)

Sterling K. Brown and Shailene Woodley are dishing on “Paradise” Season 2. 

“Extra’s” Derek Hough spoke with Sterling and Shailene about working together for the first time on the show.

Shailene talked about joining the show, explaining, "The thing I love the most about ‘Paradise’ is it contradicts the genre. You think you're going into this show about a post-apocalyptic world, and it’s actually just a world of humans in a different landscape. But the landscape doesn’t matter as much as the connection between them, and I was just... I laughed, I cried, I was so angry.”

She added, "One of the reasons why I wanted to be a part of Season 2 was just to relieve my anger about Jane," referencing Nicole Brydon Bloom's character.

Sterling is an executive producer on the show, calling it “an honor” to have Shailene on the show.

He said, “To extend the invitation and you shoot your shot and you don’t know if people will say yes or no. Like hopefully, they’ve watched the show and have some sort of connection to it and want to come and play in the sandbox with you. And she said ‘yes’ and I was like, ‘Are you serious?' Like she said, ‘Yes'? Like, I was giddy."

“Then we get a chance to step into the space together, it was everything I hope that it would be and more,” Sterling gushed. “Shailene is like this kindred spirit where you ask her a question, she gives you an answer. Like, she’s not coy or anything. She’s someone who wants to be known and wants to know you... When you're underneath this time capsule — there's a little bit of a crucible — God, it really helps when people want to know each other, because that can't help but come across when you see them on camera together."

Shailene echoed, "Well, you're the same, and I think it actually allowed us to do what we were able to do with these characters in later episodes."

Sterling also teased his wife Ryan Michelle Bathe’s role and a moment involving her that’s one of his favorites of the season. 

He shared, “She appears in episode six and she’s part of Jane’s backstory.”

Sterling noted that it’s “a look” that Ryan gives to the camera, calling it “surprising.”

When asked if it was a look he was familiar with, he answered, "What she’s reacting to is hopefully something that she’s never reacted to in our lives together as married people.”