Patina Miller opened up about the evolution of Raquel “Raq” Thomas as Power Book III: Raising Kanan heads into its highly anticipated fourth season. With Kanan stepping further into independence, Miller spoke about a shifting mother-son dynamic rooted in both love and conflict.
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00:00And you spoke about it a little bit earlier, but I wanted to kind of ask you to expound
00:05on it a little bit, because Raquel, she fought really hard to build an empire.
00:10What do you think, out of all the motivators, drives her the most?
00:14I used to say, early on in the project, that it was wanting to create something, legacy,
00:24for her son and her family, right?
00:28For me, that was my thing, going into this character, like, Espetina, what do I want
00:34with Raquel?
00:35No.
00:36Her through line, this is what she wants.
00:37And as the season has continued on, you start to really kind of investigate, like, what
00:43is this character really in it for, and what does this character want?
00:48She's built her enterprise.
00:49And I think where we meet her in season four, she's done it for the family for so long,
00:57I think she's doing it for herself now.
00:59I think it's her being proud of herself, loving the dangerous, like, how dangerous the world
01:08is of being, like, you know, I think she's intoxicated by it being so, what's the word
01:15I want to say?
01:16It's so life or death.
01:18And there is, like, that weird part of her that loves the chase, the high of the power
01:24of being successful, of being a woman in this world, and having it all.
01:31And not really having it all, but having this one thing.
01:33She's really good at this one thing, and that is, she's fixated on that.
01:39And so it's now not become about, oh, for the family, it's like, no, I want this.
01:45And I want to see it all the way through.
01:48And I love that.