00:00Trojan, how would you describe the dynamic
00:04between your character, Officer Harmon,
00:06and Officer Diaz?
00:08What makes their partnership unique?
00:12I think what makes it unique is that it is multifaceted.
00:15I think from the jump, you know, it's a mentor and mentee.
00:19She's a field training officer.
00:20It's his first day on patrol.
00:22So she's really in a position of leadership.
00:25She's teaching him. She's trying to protect him.
00:27But then what's really interesting
00:29is that the minute they show up on their first call,
00:32the people that they're responding to don't know
00:35that he's learning and that she's teaching him.
00:38They just show up as partners.
00:39So he's got to jump into the situation
00:42and almost intuit what to do and respond in the way...
00:46You know, that's why he's been trained,
00:47but it's putting him to work right away.
00:50And I think what's really cool is that we get to
00:53just keep on turning the dial on who these two are to each other.
00:58And how they can... how they improve each other,
01:01how they can trust each other more,
01:03what betrayals happen, and, yeah,
01:05how their relationship grows and deepens.
01:07Just to add to what Troyan said,
01:09I think it's really interesting how, like,
01:10at moments throughout the series,
01:12the teacher also becomes a student, you know?
01:14There are times where Tracy's forced to, uh,
01:18kind of shift her usual ways of thinking to,
01:22I don't know, to just connect with Diaz
01:25on a more human level.
01:26Oh, absolutely.
01:28Dandon, what attracted you to Officer Alex Diaz?
01:31Do you relate to him in any way?
01:34I do. I do.
01:35Um, one of the things that stands out to me
01:38right off the top is the fact that Diaz sometimes,
01:41he reacts before thinking.
01:43And a lot of times, uh, I can do the same exact thing
01:46because I lead sometimes with either instinct or emotion.
01:50Uh, but in a job like policing, especially nowadays,
01:53um, I think having a more...
01:55And I've said this before, but Harmon almost operates,
01:58almost like his logical side of the brain,
02:01where she forces him to really ponder
02:04and think things through and think four steps ahead,
02:06which is something that Diaz is not really used to.
02:09Something I'm not really used to myself.
02:11Um, I try to live as presently as I can,
02:13but I think especially in a job like policing,
02:15it's crucial to at least think about the repercussions
02:17before you make a choice.
02:20Adrian, how did you prepare, uh, mentally and physically
02:25to portray, uh, such a challenging character
02:28as a police officer?
02:30Hmm.
02:31Oh, my gosh.
02:32I think just remaining, uh, just, just throughout
02:36the entire show, being a student and, and just being a sponge.
02:39Uh, we had such amazing police advisors on set.
02:42Absolutely right. There was always a learning opportunity.
02:45I remember even one day, you know,
02:47because we were always shooting on locations,
02:49and even when our only standing set that we returned to
02:52was a working police precinct.
02:54So we were sitting in our chairs,
02:56waiting to go in front of the camera
02:57next to other working police officers
02:59who were on their shift.
03:01So taking that opportunity, if they had a minute,
03:04if they weren't, you know, busy, being like,
03:07hey, what's it like for you?
03:08So can you tell me a little bit about this?
03:10What would you impart? You know, or, or one time,
03:12I remember we were out on, um, at an intersection,
03:16and we had Long Beach police officers
03:18who had to close down the street for traffic
03:20to make sure that it was safe.
03:22And being able to talk to them,
03:24we didn't want to talk to them too much
03:26because they were in traffic,
03:27but there was always an opportunity to learn
03:30or add one more thing or say,
03:32oh, I never considered that angle.
03:33That's so helpful.
03:35So it was really, really cool to be immersed in the world.
03:38Yeah.
03:39How about the experience of working with body cams,
03:42dash cam? Troia, how was for both of you?
03:47Oh, well, it was fantastic. It was really wonderful.
03:50Some days, you know, when we did the body cam,
03:52they slapped a GoPro on us,
03:54so we were our own camera operators,
03:56which was a blast.
03:57And, um, and it was really exciting
03:59to be able to get that, that level of sort of like,
04:04cinema verite, you know, that realism of when the,
04:07when the camera is on the dash and you see both of us,
04:11you see us so close and you see the interaction,
04:13you see that there's no barrier between us.
04:15It's really, it's different than having a close-up on me
04:18and a close-up on you.
04:20It really brings our worlds together.
04:22You almost forget you're acting.
04:23You do.
04:24During some moments, yeah.
04:26Totally, totally. You forget you're acting
04:27because you're just in the car together.
04:29And so it was, I think it made our jobs a lot easier.
04:33And I think, like you said, it really brings the audience in,
04:36in a way that other shows, you know,
04:39they don't have that opportunity to lean on.
04:41So it's, it's really wonderful.
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