After introducing the world to Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman in Season 1, The Killing came to an end with one final breakout star.
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The Killing's fourth and final season might have closed on a decidedly divisive note on Aug. 1, but there is one element of the show that's universally hailed: Tyler Ross' haunting performance as Kyle Stansbury, the enigmatic military cadet suspected of murdering his family. As the character endured a never-ending barrage of torment — both at the hands of his classmates and in his own mind — the 25-year-old actor conjured up a blazing intensity, making it nearly impossible for Detective Linden (Mireille Enos), Detective Holder (Joel Kinnaman), and the audience to separate fact from fiction.
In order to properly bring the deeply disturbed character to life, Ross entrenched himself in so much misery, it actually proved to be inescapable. "I had nightmares and they don't always go away," Ross told to BuzzFeed of The Killing's grueling two-and-a-half month shoot, which still troubles him today. "I tried to make it as real for myself in whatever way I needed to in order to portray it as true and honestly as I could, but I would go home and have terrifying nightmares about shooting people I knew — and that was even before I knew that I was the killer!"
The revelation that a disassociated Stansbury actually gunned down his father (Bruce Dawson), mother (Anne Marie DeLuise), and two sisters (Avery Konrad and Peighton Brown) in cold blood came to light in the series' final episode, and Ross only learned about it when The Killing creator Veena Sud delivered the script to the cast.
"I was in utter denial," he said, still clearly struggling to completely rationalize his character's role in the brutal murders. "I really didn't think it was going to be me, but I also really didn't want it to be me. I fell in love with that 6-year-old [Brown], who was the loveliest in real life too. I couldn't understand why Kyle would kill her. It couldn't be right. Veena explained to me it was because he couldn't stand to see the look on her face, realizing that he was the monster she feared. That was really hard to wrap my brain around."
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