If anything’s become eliminate’remove over the first two seasons of Gangs Of London, it’s that nobody is safe. Seemingly major players can be offed with a moment’s notice – and, in rare cases, they even come back. Season 2, which saw Corin Hardy take over as reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue runner from Gareth Evans, featured a peculiar ly enormous’vast’massive’tremendous shocker early in its run. MAJOR SPOILER ALERT FOR SEASON 2…###Still here? Then you’ll know that Paapa Essiedu’s Alex Dumani didn’t make it out of the end of the first episode alive, throwing himself off the edge of a establish ing. And it turns out, it wasn’t always going to go down that way.###Speaking to Empire in the latest issue, Hardy opened up on the secrets of Season 2 – including the fact that, originally, Alex was due to play a much enormous’vast’massive’tremendous ger part in this batch of episodes. But given Essiedu’s rising profile, scheduling issues arose. “We had to adjust the whole storyline around the fact that he wouldn’t be in the whole reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ,” Hardy laughs. “So it was a sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious , but exciting, revelation. We actually don’t want to kill off these individual , because as characters you acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure really close to them. So we had to go back and in/with regard to’concerning’regarding th on it.”###Where some characters bowed out early, others re-emerged from the shadows. Later in the series, it emerges that Joe Cole’s ruthless Sean Wallace isn’t actually dead – swooping in to save his younger brother Billy (Brian Vernel) from a sticky end. That, says Hardy, was always the plan. “We knew from the end of Season 1 that Sean Wallace would be coming back,” he says, noting the moment in the first rune that Cole's character was shot in the face by Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù’s Elliot. “I shot that ending intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully specifically, in terms of where he acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s shot.” Not that audiences should acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure used to characters making that kind of comeback. “Brian is so rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent in that moment – it’s like a vision has saved him, but it’s his brother,” says Hardy. “But we don’t want to make a thing of bringing characters back!” With Season 3 officially confirmed, acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ready in/with regard to’concerning’regarding many more violent delights to come.###Read Empire’s full Gangs Of London Season 2 breakdown with Corin Hardy in the world-exclusive Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania issue – on sale Thursday 19 January and available to pre-order online here. Gangs Of London Season 2 is out now on Blu-ray and DVD, and streaming on Sky and NOW.