FROM Stars Kaelen Ohm and Nathan D. Simmons Break Down Those Shocking Deaths

Every FROM finale sparks a fresh wave of theories, but Season 4’s finale may have left viewers with more questions than ever before.

As the residents inch closer to escaping the nightmare, hope continues to come at a devastating cost.

And heartbreak reigns supreme.

With only one season left, getting home has never felt both nearer and farther away for the residents of the nightmarish town.

FROM Season 4 Episode 10 was an edge-of-your-seat ride as Jade and Tabitha’s mission to retrieve the children’s bones spiraled into chaos. And for two characters, this hour marked the end of their journeys.

With the monsters out to play, Smiley made a play for Fatima, only to be met by Fatima and Marielle, who stepped in to protect her but were ultimately killed by the terrifying monster.

Elsewhere, Elgin found himself in Sophia’s crosshairs, and when he decided against playing her game, she sucked the life out of him.

It marked the end for two characters who had experienced plenty of highs and lows since arriving in FROM Season 2.

Following the shocking finale, we spoke with Kaelen Ohm and Nathan D. Simmons about saying goodbye to Marielle and Elgin, their final scenes, and whether they hope to return to FROM someday.

Kaelen, Marielle spent much of the season trying to keep it together, but she was also carrying so much weight from everything she had experienced since coming to the town.

What do you think kept her moving forward, especially when things seemed to get darker and more difficult around her?

Kaelen Ohm: I think her optimism and her relationship with Kristi were based on the belief that there was salvation at the end. I shouldn’t say “salvation” because she’s made it known that she’s not a religious person.

But yeah, just her relationship with Kristi, she’s got a lot to lose in town, so that keeps her going in a particular way. And I think her second nature is to protect people, and from her own suffering in some ways, too. So I think that’s kind of what lies beneath for her.

Nathan, everything that happened last season with Fatima and the physical and emotional toll it took on him, Elgin really entered this season in a very different place than when we first met him.

So how do you think he viewed himself within the town, and do you think he was ever able to truly move past what happened to him?

Nathan D. Simmons: I think he has felt a disconnect within the town. We see him going around trying to find this place; that’s why he was trying to help Fatima build her golem and trying to find some more different types of purpose there, a newfound purpose.

And I don’t think he ever got past that. And I think, unfortunately, that yearning for purpose would end up getting him in the situation he was, to the point where he sees the photo and he thinks, oh, this could be something that could help us.

So let me go and ask this person that I see about it.

Maybe there’ll be a way out. Finding that purpose again to be helpful. And I think he still hasn’t got past that feeling of meaning stuff to people, meaning something good to people, I could say.

When did you guys learn that this was going to be the fate of your character this season, and what was your reaction to it ending, essentially?

Kaelen Ohm: Yeah, usually people who are going to die get a phone call from the writer’s assistant to meet at a particular cafe in the city where we film to have a coffee.

So if you get that call, then you know it’s going to happen. And I happened to be with Chloe [Van Landschoot] on the day.

We were about to go to a climbing gym together when I got the call. I’m looking at her with this look on my face, and she’s like, “What’s going on?” I’m like, “I’m having coffee.”

And she got actually quite upset in the moment. It was really sweet. And then we kind of had this really strange, surreal climbing session of like, okay, this is going to be the end. And I went for coffee and was told how I’d go, which turned out to be very cool.

So it’s a process, and then the scripts come, and then you start to prepare yourself for doing justice to the moment as an actor.

How did you guys think it happened for you? For Marielle, it was about protecting Fatima, and for Elgin, it was about not giving in to Sophia at that moment and to what she wanted from him.

Nathan D. Simmons: No, for me, I think it was a justified ending for Elgin. And I think morally, I think he got to die on what he believes, and he didn’t let the town get to him or change him.

The whole series, he’s trying to escape, escape, leave, to no avail, so many times.

And he had been deceived. And I think this is a moment where he got to control his own story of how he wanted to leave and how he wanted to go. And I think that was very sweet for me.

Kaelen: Yeah, I loved it because it showed her true nature as a caretaker in her profession, and I think just someone who really cared about other people and was… She’s tough too. She was willing to put herself on the line.

I think she ultimately really did try to save both of them, but she didn’t have much of a chance.

Yeah, I think it did her as a character great justice, and it’s one people have struggled with for a couple of different reasons. I wasn’t in my best form when I arrived. Yeah, I hope that she gets some retribution.

Nathan, I was the biggest Elgin apologist. What do you think about his whole character arc from when he got there to the end? What do you think about his journey?

Nathan D. Simmons: I think his journey is really based on belief and hope. And, as I was saying earlier, maintain who you are. Every decision he makes isn’t like he just decides he wants to do this.

It’s coming from a place of deep belief that he’s struggled with himself first until he sees that it’s the truth. I think that kind of goes all the way through till his end. A lot of people had qualms with his decisions and everything, but in his heart, it’s always been for the greater good.

I think his dying at the end, the way he does, I think it just goes right back to that. It’s holding onto his truth, and who he is, you know what I mean? And whatever hope was left, instead of being controlled, at least now he could hope to go to a better place. Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. I always thought his heart was in the right place, but it was just that town.

Nathan D. Simmons: Thank you, Whitney.

You’re welcome.

Kaelen, you mentioned it before: Marielle and Kristi, right? They were such a big part, and their relationship is such a big part of the show. Talk to me about the importance of that relationship to Marielle and its impact on her journey in the town.

Kaelen Ohm: I mean, who knows how Marielle would’ve fared in the town had Kristi not been there. I think it might’ve been a very different story. And Kristi is kind of the heart of the place, and everyone looks to her when something happens.

And I think in our backstories, she was in medical school to become a doctor, and I was a pediatric nurse. Even though we’re in a partnership and I’m a bit older and all that, she’s more professionally advanced than I am.

That’s interesting to see little moments, especially near the end of this season, where she kind of calls that authority over me, and it’s a bit tricky. So they have a dynamic relationship, and obviously, with so many storylines and such a big cast, we only get brief glimpses of it.

But for us as actors, we need all the density underneath so there’s something to play from as these characters.

So that world that we both individually created and together as a partnership, I think, hopefully, was woven into what was written for us, which there’s a lot of strain between these two people.

You don’t really get to see them and their queer love much because there’s just not much time, space, or nervous system regulation for that in FROM town.

But yeah, I feel like I could go on and on about it, but like any two people and a partnership, there are so many layers, it’s so dynamic, and you hope to show that even in moments of a scene.

Absolutely. And kind of in the vein of that, are there certain things you guys wish you had gotten to do with your characters on the series that you weren’t able to?

Nathan D. Simmons: Yeah, definitely. For sure. For sure.

One thing I wish I had a chance to do with my character was join in the discovery of the town’s mystery. I think the events of last season kind of prevented Elgin from being able to join with any of the other truth seekers, as I say.

He was kind of, I guess, ostracized because of his actions, which is fair. But that’s one thing I was like, “Man, geez,” I was like, “If you just freaking would have left Fatima alone, man. You could be out there digging in tunnels.”

Kaelen Ohm: I think without making up something of my own, Marielle was in the chambers with Randall and Julie, and I was really curious to see how the three of them would handle that together.

I was hoping we’d be like the Three Stooges going under together a bunch. And so I would’ve loved to see what had happened, but I had to stay back and help out and go through my own little storyline with it too.

When we’ve seen people who’ve died in the town come back, whether in flashbacks or in the case of Father Khatri, he pops in to be a thorn in Boyd’s side.

If the opportunity came up and you guys were able to come back in some kind of capacity, what kind of role would you want your character to play? A ghost in a helpful way, a ghost in a different way? What would you want to do?

Kaelen Ohm: I’d love to be an informant of some kind, but what it’s like afterward, whether it was with Boyd or Sara or someone who does have experiences with the dead, be part of the lore in more of a sense with my death.

That would be really cool.

Nathan D. Simmons: Yeah, because Elgin and his dreams were so prevalent with his character, and I would want to come back through that medium with people’s dreams as something like that.

That’d be cool if I ever came back, like whispering stuff in people’s dreams or coming as a monster or bringing truth, that idea of that angel coming. I would like to do that, be that angel for different characters around, who just pops in and out.

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