'Jessica Jones' season 2 news: Jessica and Trish become lovers?
Though "Jessica Jones" season 2 won't be here for quite a while — at least not until the mash-up miniseries "The Defenders" has premiered — showrunner Melissa Rosenberg has revealed that pre-production is ongoing for the Netflix series.
"We're working on it now," Rosenberg recently told The Hollywood Reporter. "It's going to be a long process. It's great because we really have a lot of time to adjust it," she added.
While the "Jessica Jones" boss admitted that she can't really talk about the show's second season until after "The Defenders" has dropped, she said season 2 will reveal new elements about the characters.
"New and surprising relationships, who comes into each other's orbits and why," she said, adding that the people on "Jessica Jones" won't be doing the same things in exactly the same ways as they did in season 1. This, Rosenberg said, is what they do on network television.
In "Jessica Jones," she said, "you push your characters into new places they've never been before. That's what gives us the most excitement."
But do these "new places" and "surprising relationships" mean putting Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) in an unexpected romance?
In an interview with Esquire, Rosenberg noted that Jessica's relationship with her adopted sister Trish (Rachael Taylor) has been so charged and intimate that some viewers have assumed that there's more to their bond. Even Ritter herself reportedly mistook the pair for ex-lovers during auditions for the series, before their back story was explained.
"People would love that," Rosenberg said about the possibility of a Jessica-Trish romance. "I feel like for me that's what is unique about the relationship, that they are such intimate friends," she said, adding, "I think they don't have to become lovers — that being said, one never knows," Rosenberg teased.
Netflix has not announced the official release date for "Jessica Jones" season 2. Meanwhile, the first season of "Luke Cage" is now streaming online.