Jaz Sinclair And Lachlan Watson Get Candid On Self-Love, Panic Attacks, And Letting Go

The third segment of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina saw Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) do something truly shocking: take the throne of Hell. She’d once vowed never to rule a place with so much darkness, going for now as trapping Lucifer Morningstar, her father, to prevent him from expanding his reign behind the underworld.


Nevertheless once the demons of Hell protest anyone who tries to rule in the Dark Lord’s absence but a Morningstar, Sabrina’s hand is forced. Though she heeds warnings that the power she’s inheriting can destroy the person she is, she soon realizes that with it, she can change the way Hell operates. Leading with her heart, Sabrina uses her power to create Hell, Heaven, and Earth more just places.


“I habitually feel like you could tell once somebody’s motivator is love or power. You could tell almost instantly by how they do what they do,” Jaz Sinclair tells MTV News. This sounds particularly true in Sabrina, which shows a constant back-and-forth between the power-hungry Dark Lord and his do-good heir, Sabrina. “I'm personally of the belief that love habitually wins.”


In the opening three parts of Netflix's hit occult drama, love has been on a winning streak, though not without obstacles. First, Sabrina herself had to learn to use her magic for good, then she had to enlist the aid of her mortal companions, and finally, she had to identify just how much power she wanted. And there really are certainly more troubles coming down the line as soon as Part 4 drops. (The cast has finished filming the next installment, nevertheless the release date is nevertheless to be announced.)


Jaz Sinclair's Roz and Lachlan Watson's Theo support Kiernan Shipka's Sabrina.


For Sabrina’s mortal companions Roz and Theo, tapping into their own powers seemed to be inevitable. It was either step up, or certain doom for all of humanity. At the end of Part 2, Sabrina’s loyal pals put down their human drama — dating, cheerleading, and homework — to help close the gates of Hell. Roz armed with her inherited cunning, Theo with his gun, and both with the confidence of a full army, they haven’t wavered from Sabrina’s side since, literally going to Hell and back before conquering a carnival of Pagans trying to demolish the planet in Part 3. For the actors who play them, Sinclair and Lachlan Watson, understanding what their powers looked like took a little more time and effort. The key was self-love.


“The root of empowerment is power,” Sinclair says. “It’s a breathtaking thing to identify that you have infinite capacities and that you could really channel your own power and put that to good use.”


Finding and wielding your power isn't habitually easy, especially with social pressures and fresh anxieties cropping up. For both Sinclair and Watson, it has been a gradual examination of their emotions. As Sinclair struggled to find confidence over the years, she’d resemble on what experience triggered her negative thoughts and mannerisms, then ask herself, “What would someone who loves themselves do?” Watson adds that they’ve had to learn to accept how they actually feel, rather than how they think they should feel.


However knowing they wish to be kinder to themselves and actually doing that have proven to be different things, and connecting point A to point B can get intense. For Sinclair, who has learned to accept those parts of herself that are “stubborn” and “emotional,” some days it felt like her only alternative was to totally ride those waves and “have my ass handed to me before I would let go.”


Mortal trio Roz, Theo, and Ross Lynch's Harvey in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.


Meanwhile, Watson adds, there really are constantly surprises around the corner, even once they think they have a stage name on their emotions. “It's funny how morph and you also can't habitually predict and it's not routinely just an easy jump,” they mention. Just about a week before our chat, they had a panic attack unlike any other they’d ever experienced. Although this was a new experience for Watson, in that moment, they dug into the power they could access: their companions and family member. “Sometimes things come out of nowhere, yet I think it's allowing yourself the space to accept that and to forgive that and to be OK with not habitually being OK,” they say.


“And and then the other thing isn't over-identifying with that,” Sinclair chimes in. “Just being like, ‘Last week I had a panic attack. I am not the panic attack.’” The ability to separate emotions from identity has been an accommodating tool in recovering from the fallout. Right considering that, it’s hard to love something that is bad to its core; it’s easier to love something that is basically good, nevertheless some days struggles with the bad. That’s the power Gavin Leatherwood’s warlock, Nick Scratch, struggles to harness while in Part 3 while he aids in preventing serving as Lucifer’s holding cell and reflects on all of his past deceptive mannerisms. It nearly kills him; Sabrina’s love saves him.


Those struggles, real or fictional, are once self-exploration really happens. “I don't really learn that much Once I feel amazing; I learn so much any time If I do have those off days,” Watson says. “Let’s let ourselves to be human and have compassion for yourself, and then everything will come with that — this acceptance and so the ability to let go.”