The creator of merchants Lee Child was surprised by the casting of a key figure in the video series Prime
The casting is important on any television or film project, but it was particularly important on “Reacher”. The series of extremely popular privileged videos broke records since he made his debut in 2022, but when he started, he was a bit of a question mark. The series is, of course, based on the popular books of Jack Reacher of the British novelist Lee Child, who follow the former holder-polishing during his trips to the United States when he finds himself involved in all kinds of debacles. But the previous attempts to bring the character to the screen had proved to be a divisor between fans of the novels.
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For the film “Jack Reacher” of 2012, Tom Cruise was launched in the lead, that even Child himself has since admitted an error. Cruise resumed the role in “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” of 2016, but the fans simply did not have it. The problem was the decrease in the stature of the star, which was not even close to the reservoir of a man described in the books.
When the time came to Jack Reacher to enter the age of streaming, then the child made sure that the star had an appropriate physique, this is how we forced the giant man Alan Ritchson playing the main role in “Reacher”. At 6 feet 3 inch and about 235 pounds, Ritchson certainly meets the requirements to play Jack Reacher, which is why it is surprising that Amazon does not initially want to launch it. But it seems that Child did not get everything he wanted in terms of casting of season 1 “Reacher”, although the author admits that it is probably for better.
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Lee Child has a specific vision of his characters
In season 1 of “Reacher”, the former Army Man visits the city of Margrave, Georgia, where he is quickly swept away in an investigation into the illicit relations of a local criminal organization which may or may not be responsible for the death of his own brother. During his stay in Margrave, Reacher won two allies in the form of the detective Oscar Finlay of Malcolm Goodwin and the officer of Willa Fitzgerald, Roscoe Conklin.
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The first became a confidence friend to Reacher and a favorite character of fans who made a cameo appearance in season 2. Roscoe, meanwhile, has gone from an ally to a romantic interest throughout the first season, with Reveler, finally leaving her at the end of the season in the same way of season 3, the best thing to do with Sonya Cassidy of Susan Duffy of season 3, “Back” since he started.
Fitzgerald was not a recruit when she appeared in season 1 of “Reacher”. The actress had already appeared in the underestimated “Scream” series of MTV and the “Little Women” adaptation of the BBC. But her representation of Roscoe Conklin has definitely helped to enhance her profile, and she has since appeared in “The Fall of the House of Usher” of Netflix before playing in the medical drama of streamer “Pulse” and directing the film thriller “Strange Darling”. Obviously, Roscoe was a big role for Fitzgerald, but it turns out that Lee Child initially envisaged someone completely different for the role.
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Lee Child was won by Willa Fitzgerald
Lee Child, who is an executive producer of “Reacher”, interviewed Alan Ritchson for Squaremile in 2022, and the conversation turned to the author’s original vision for the characters of his books. After Ritchson asked Child if he had a hard time with casting actors who were nothing like his original image of the characters, the writer said: “Yes, absolutely. It is really the central problem from the point of view of the writer”, before explaining how it was a particular challenge that came with Willa Fitzgerald like Roscoe Conklin in season 1. ” physical reality, “he said, adding, adding.
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“These are real people in a real space. For example, Willa Fitzgerald, who plays Roscoe, did not look like what I had in the mental photo. I am incredibly visual on this subject – I live with this character for six months while I write the book and I see it incredibly clearly in terms of appearance. Willa was not as if I had envisaged.”
But Child had no choice but to acquiesce once he saw a hearing of Fitzgerald. “She just has her scenes,” he said. “I’m like, I was wrong! It’s what Roscoe looks like!” Obviously, the writer was quick to change his point of view, with the child since he said that he was “devastated” that Roscoe did not return for season 2 of “Reacher”.
