Anyone who has read Jack Reacher’s novel Persuader Remember Paulie: the giant mountain security guard who hits the heads with reacher several times throughout history. So, there was a lot of interest in who would touch the colossal figure in one of the best main video programs when I return for season 3.
That person would need to be lightened above a Alan Ritchson already 6 ‘3 ”in the main role of Scope Season 3. Lee Child, the writer of the novels of Jack Reacher and executive producer of the Scope The series, tells me in an exclusive interview, was not an easy task.
“Alan Ritchson is already quite large. How do you find a person who makes it look small? And it was literally An international search for an actor who could make Reacher seem small. “
The result of that search was Dutch bodybuilder Olivier Richters, who is an adequately imposing presence in the program. With almost a higher head than the main star and with a permanent frown on the face, it would not surprise you if Reacher decided to placate Paulie to ensure that the covered operation in the center of the third season works without problems. Not Reacher’s style, says Child.
“I think it is very indicative of Reacher’s personality. This guy is larger than reacher; It’s huge, it’s scary. Will Reacher differ? At all. He will use it as much as he can, simply because that is who is reacher.
“I really enjoyed that, especially because given the dynamics of a thriller like that. We know that these two will end up having a fight at some point. And I guess Reacher knows it from the first minute. He knows that he will have to break through this type. So he is softening, I think, destabilizing him with teasing and insults. “
These clashes between Reacher and Paulie, although tense, also offer some light relief of anxiety. They have had innumerable clashes in the episodes that I have seen so far, with a particular sample of force in an arm that struggles to lift a smile of anyone who enjoys seeing a conceited stalker knocked down a plug.
The opportunity to have these smaller moments that establish and grow more the characters is something that the child appreciates the adaptation of Reacher as a television series, instead of in the film.
“That is one of the great advantages of transmission. You have the time and space to do that. If you are making a feature film, it is compressed at about an hour and a half of content. And maybe we would have had a line, but with the expansive execution time, we can keep it in operation as something running. “
That is based on another point in my conversation with El Niño, in which he discussed the possibility of redoing the stories of the Scope Movies on the television series. It is “absolutely” a possibility, but “not as a matter of urgency.” And with Scope Season 4 is already written and ready to shoot at the end of this year, it may not be until season 5 or beyond when those stories return again.
For now, see Reacher face Paulie in Scope Season 3 will work well.
The first three episodes of Scope Season 3 is available in Prime Video now.
