>Q: “What kind of development went into Entrapta and Hordak’s relationship, and what inspired it? Also, what you brought up earlier (referring to something discussed in the panel), was really interesting about what makes the difference between a hero and a villain, and how they choose to let people in, and that villains don’t do that. But Hordak did this season. So, I just kinda wanna know what choice went into developing him that way.”
>Josie: “I think a lot of my earliest pitch was just like,“Two mad scientists, that are sweet on each other, YES, a 100%, that’s fun!” But, I think if we got into the, you know, deeper questions of letting people in and the fact that Hordak does let Entrapta in, he does tell her things that he’s never told anyone else... We do learn so much more that gets humanized through his interactions with Entrapta, but at the very end he believes Catra. Like he’s still so into his insecurities and his belief that he is truly not worthy deep down inside, and they have hit him so hard, that even when there is a princess breaking into his lab, screaming at him, that imperfection is beautiful, telling him that she wants to be his friend, he’s still believing that bad voice in the back of his head. I think that while Entrapta sort of humanized him, we realized he’s a lot like Catra too. I think a lot of what I really responded to was that speech he does where he says he feels worthless. Because I think that that’s utterly relatable. Like you feel like you haven’t hit those highest heights, that you look around and see that other people are doing better than you. And that’s something that always interests me, and I think that became a lot of him and Entrapta’s back and forth, wrestling with the idea with failure, wrestling with the idea of:“Am I worth something? If I don’t hit X, Y, and Z, minus points, am I worthless?”
