Ron Perlman previews his part as Clay Morrow for the upcoming season of Sons of Anarchy….
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
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For all the tragedy and mayhem that Clay Morrow has caused on Sons of Anarchy over the last five seasons, there was a small sense of sadness when he was led away in handcuffs in the final episode last year after watching his wife, his stepson and his entire club turn their backs on him.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the reason he was in handcuffs in the first place is because his ex-wife Gemma, his surrogate son Juice, and new club president Jax all conspired to frame him for the murder of Oakland gangster Damon Pope.
Clay sat alone in the police station, abandoned by those that he once loved most, and what was once the most powerful man in Charming was now reduced to a etched number on the back of prison fatigues.
Now as season six begins on Tuesday, Clay is a man without a home left to rot behind bars while also being visited by former U.S. Marshall Lee Toric (Donal Logue) who has his own axe to grind with SAMCRO and he wants to use their ex-President as a blunt instrument to strike at them.
“Without revealing too much, you all know how he ends up completely a man without a family, a country, a life, possessions, everything he’s associated himself with through the entire trajectory of his life has been taken from him,” Ron Perlman, who portrays Clay Morrow, recently told NerdcoreMovement.com. “Not only that but he’s going into jail with a $5 million dollar price tag on his head so he may not even make it to jail. The deck is stacked against him.”
During his tenure as president, the Sons of Anarchy saw more bloodshed and death than maybe at any time in the club’s history, and Clay was at the forefront of every bad decision and snap judgment that eventually cost members their lives.
As much as he was always about the club that he started, at the heart of it all Clay still maintained a selfish demeanor, wanting to gather as much money and power until it consumed him completely.
Now that he’s locked in jail with little hope of getting out, Clay is a man that can easily head in one of two directions—he can try to put back the pieces of his broken puzzle of a family, or he can destroy them all with the knowledge he possesses.
Which direction he heads is still unknown.
Perlman says as season six gets underway that Clay is starting to face his own mortality, maybe for the first time ever. Despite the fact that he’s been shot and nearly killed and he has less years in front of him than behind, Clay has always approached everything with a sort of invincible aura about him.
That all came to an end last season, and now he’s looking at the end game, wondering what his role will be in it all.
“My sense is what happens to Clay, the most important thing is now that he’s lost everything and he’s coming to peace with the fact that this could be the end of his run not only as president, but the final end, that he’s a guy that needs to get his house in order for whatever comes,” Perlman said. “That means making it right with everybody he knows and loves.”
Could Clay be turning a corner when it comes to how he deals with Jax, Gemma and the rest of the club this season or is it all a smoke screen like last year when he walked around posing as a broken man when in reality he was plotting and scheming to bring his stepson down?
Tune into Sons of Anarchy this Tuesday, September 10 at 10pm ET/PT to find out.
