Evil’s Katja Herbers on Why Chaotic Kristen Is Her Favorite Character

With Evil’s third season now in its second half, members of the forged assembled at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to speak concerning the present state of our favourite spooky non secular investigators—plus provide a sneak peek at what’s to return as we slither towards the season finale on Paramount+.

Taking the stage in San Diego have been Katja Herbers (Dr. Kristen Bouchard, agnostic/mother of 4 very chatty daughters/margarita fan); Aasif Mandvi (Ben Shakir, tech professional/pc whiz/grasp of snark); and Christine Lahti (Sheryl Luria, Kristen’s mother/worshiper of creepy dolls/fashionista). Before the panel, attendees bought an advance screening of Sunday night time’s “The Demon of Cults”—a ripping episode that touches on a number of of season three’s ongoing storylines, and likewise sees Kristen, Ben, and Father David (Mike Colter) investigating a back-to-the-land cult when one among its members seems to grow to be possessed.

Speaking about her character’s evolution from season one till now, Herbers had clearly given it lots of thought. “I’m just very excited about how she’s transformed. I started off quite innocent in the first season. Then in the second season, I morphed into this sort of maybe-possessed evil, dark person. I killed someone at the end of the first season and I was carrying all that guilt over having done that—also I did think that guy deserved to die,” she added. “It’s been wild, it’s been strange for me, actually, in the third season to go back a little bit where I am now no longer on the dark side. I’m trying to navigate still being this person who takes someone out in the supermarket with a bag of frozen French fries [as we saw earlier in season three; pro-tip: never cut the line on Kristen Bouchard].”

Herbers continued by saying that Kristen’s progress is “really fun, now that she’s doing it in a controlled way. In the second season, she was doing it in a bit more unhinged way, although I have to say chaotic, unhinged Kristen is my favorite,” she laughed. “And I think she’s a feminist hero in a way. She doesn’t take any shit from men, and she’ll do anything to protect her children—the way we just saw [in “The Demon of Cults”] and my lacking egg [possibly stolen by a demonic fertility clinic, in one of the series’ ongoing storylines], we’re going to get into that in the remainder of the season.”

New episodes of Evil stream Sundays on Paramount+.

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