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I spent the last couple of years thinking on how he could return, under what scenario. He spent his whole life supporting and defending a system and then the system itself screwed him. Someone who’s been rotting away with this tick inside of him knowing he’s right and just not being able to substantiate it. He’s someone who’s fought for truth, for the defense of truth. Why does Lucas make the choice to go back and fight the Underwoods, when it could have been easier avoiding it after being released and no one knowing you were set free?

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You could say from season one he was one of the only guys or the only guy who was living by a certain moral code and now he’s making these choices because he’s presented with a lack of choice. He’s going to survive and survive as best he can and part of that involves going to some pretty dark places and making the right friends. Lucas is not going to power his way through prison.

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If you think about all the different ways we can reintroduce a character like that and all the ways we’ve seen it before onscreen, and Beau just found a twist on how to bring us back in. We think he’s rotting away in prison and we can imagine any number of scenarios that could have happened to him. It was really fun doing that first script before season four because season three, I wasn’t there.

What was it like returning and having Lucas be in such a dark place? He gave you the opening scene to this season’s premiere. Granted, we take it to a certain extreme, but it’s one he navigates brilliantly because now when you turn on the TV, just when you think we were taking it too far you can watch our current presidential election and wonder if we even do take it too far. Beau had been involved in that world, he worked on campaigns, he’s very close with a number of politicians and he was very aware of the imaginations involved. We didn’t know what it quite was yet, but you knew from the get go, all the journalists sat in a room from the first table read with David and Beau that these were the smartest guys in the room. It was very clear from the beginning that we were all a part of something. I’ll be honest, even the very, very small handful of folks that knew that I had gone back there to work was in my family and they didn’t even want me to tell them what happened! So, in essence, everyone was in on the desire to maintain spoilers. It’s such a secretive little world where you don’t want to ruin the experience for the viewer. Your return was obviously kept under tight wraps so what were the logistics like? Did you have to keep the secret from family and friends? I thought it’d be really nice to put a little period on Lucas’ storyline instead of leaving it open. I always felt like there was just a little more that I could dig into. Then, to reunite with everyone, it was thrilling. But then as story lines play out and it comes to the end of your stay, I had sort of grown comfortable understanding and said my goodbyes not only to everyone there, but my character too. It was one thing to be involved from the beginning and to have that phone call come through where suddenly you’re in a room with David Fincher, Beau Willimon, Robin and Kevin and this amazing ensemble working on it from the get go. Goodwin was noticeably absent from season three of the series, so his return for the fourth season might be one of the show’s best kept secrets (along with the returns of Barnes and Peter Russo.) When fans were first introduced to Goodwin in season one, he was straight-laced, by the books, sporting a suit and tie and reminding his colleague Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) that they worked for The Washington Herald and, “not TMZ.” While he did avoid getting tossed in front of a train by Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), he was still sentenced to prison for knowing all too much about the country’s president. Viewers tuning into the fourth season of House of Cards were in for a bit of shock when the premiere episode opened on not Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) or his wife Claire (Robin Wright), but on Washington D.C’s resident moral compass Lucas Goodwin (Sebastian Arcelus), who was sitting in prison talking his fellow inmate through getting off.