'Bloodline' Season 2: Norbert Leo Butz Talks Kevin Rayburn's Epic Finale Moment [VIDEO]
The season 2 finale of Netflix's Bloodline featured a particularly shocking event involving Kevin Rayburn (Norbert Leo Butz).
*Spoilers through the final episode of Bloodline season 2 ahead*
The Rayburn family did its best to evade getting caught and prosecuted for killing brother Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) but Det. Marco Diaz (Enrique Murciano) eventually put all the pieces together. While Meg (Linda Cardellini) and Kevin intended to tell Marco everything in order to put it all on John (Kyle Chandler), Marco insisted that he had evidence to prosecute all of them.
Then, in an act of familial instinct, Kevin wound up bludgeoning Marco to death. This is where the show left things for Kevin, with the clear suggestion that the Rayburn family will really need to go some desperate lengths to evade prosecution.
Butz spoke about Kevin's climactic finale moment in a new interview with The Huffington Post.
"Well that's the great theme of the series, isn't it? None of us know what we're capable of when the circumstances of life become extreme, unreal, traumatic," Butz said, of Kevin's act of murder. "How do people behave when they're fighting for their very survival? And what are we capable of doing in the name of family loyalty? Having said that I literally didn't sleep for three nights after reading that season finale. Which was only a couple days before we shot it! They keep us on the front foot, these writers, that's for sure!"
Butz also admitted that this murderous moment "scared" and saddened him
"But during the process of shooting it, I discovered it made a kind of perverse, tragic sense," he added. "And it opens up fascinating possibilities for future stories."
Whether those future stories will get told remains a mystery. Netflix has yet to renew Bloodline for a third season, with no clear indication one way or the other if the company plans on doing so.
Bloodline's first two seasons are available to stream on Netflix.
