00:05Your Jack Reacher is very tall and strong, but also clever.
00:09A bit Sherlock Holmes for some deductions based only on little details.
00:14How did you prepare mentally, other than physically, for this role?
00:19Good question.
00:20You know, so I've been gifted with one of those memories that I can look at a piece of paper
00:26and I can recite it back to you almost instantaneously.
00:32But, you know, seeing as this show is called Reacher and, you know,
00:36I make an appearance in just about every scene and although the books, you know,
00:43the turn of phrase of Reacher said nothing is a popular one
00:46and when I thought I'd be able to relish it on set, it was not the case.
00:51You know, we have to handle exposition somehow and, you know,
00:56didn't want to rely on a narrator to do that, you know, a narrative device.
01:00So I had a lot of dialogue.
01:02So I actually had to create a new process for myself where to get myself into the scenes
01:08and make sure that I understood not just where Reacher was but, you know,
01:13to be able to be one step ahead of everybody.
01:15I would memorize the entire script.
01:16And to do that, I would record everybody's lines and I would listen to them continuously.
01:21Every time I was in the car, on the way home, if I was in the gym,
01:24I was listening to other people's lines.
01:27And, you know, so I was, that gave me the chance to stop once we were filming,
01:33to stop thinking about anything except for what was happening and just listen and be present.
01:36And so it was fun.
01:38It was working through that process.
01:39It was enjoyable.
01:41What was the craziest scene, action scene or the craziest stunt that you had to do on set?
01:49Good question.
01:50There was a lot of moment.
01:52There was, man, you know, we had a knife fight that was a lot of fun.
01:56And it kind of harkened back to, I was, you know, I was in the Hunger Games catching fire
02:00and I was playing a dagger specialist.
02:02So all I did every day for months was play with a knife, you know, twirling it and throwing it.
02:09And to be able to sort of like recall those muscle memory was a lot of fun.
02:16But there was one fight where I was, you know, I was arguing with everybody about I needed to do
02:23the stunt.
02:23I didn't want to cheat it.
02:24I didn't want to have to shoot my stunt double on his back or whatever.
02:27I wanted to jump a fire escape, but we shot it in a way that there was, you know, there's
02:31no way to rig it.
02:32So we had to really do this.
02:34And I was in dress shoes, you know, I mean, Reacher's wearing like shoes with heels and they're slick.
02:39And it's like, I was just afraid I was going to get hooked up on those, on that heel.
02:45You know, so thankfully made it.
02:48There was no injuries here to tell the story.
02:53But that fight stands out in my mind as like one that I'm very, very proud of.
02:57And I think it also just happens to be one of the coolest fights of the season.
03:00So I can't wait for people to see it.
03:03Your version of Jack Reacher is more faithful to the books physically.
03:08Why this choice?
03:09And how did you come up with Alar Richson?
03:12At the beginning of this process, we decided that we wanted Jack Reacher to literally be larger than life because
03:20he is figuratively larger than life.
03:23But because of that, we had to find an actor who could fill those shoes.
03:30And those are, again, literally big shoes.
03:33How we found Alan Richson, we just looked out of our window and saw him because he's so gigantic.
03:39You can just see him anywhere.
03:41But the truth is, is that we just kept getting auditions and so many talented people auditioned for this role.
03:50But Alan really stood out as someone that could play Jack Reacher.
03:56And he surely did.
03:59What do you think is the art of the character?
04:03The art of Jack Reacher?
04:05Yeah.
04:06Well, Lee Child could probably answer this better than me, but I think the simplicity of Reacher's life is the
04:18heart and soul of Reacher, if that makes sense.
04:21I think most people have relatively, you know, complicated lives.
04:25We have to pay our electric bills and we have to deal with our neighbors who might drive us a
04:35little crazy at times.
04:37And we have to make sure we don't run out of gas when we're driving to and from work and,
04:42you know, and everything in between.
04:44These little mundane things that can drive us all a little bonkers at times.
04:50Jack Reacher's life is relatively simple.
04:53And I think that's a real wish fulfillment for a lot of people that read his books.
04:58He carries just a handful of things in his pocket.
05:02And if he wants to travel west, he goes west.
05:05If he wants to travel east, he goes east.
05:08When he's hungry, he eats what he wants.
05:11And when he's tired, he'll go to sleep for a while.
05:14None of us do that.
05:16So I think that might be the thing that's the art of Reacher.
05:20That's what draws us to him.
05:23How was your involvement in the project?
05:26And how did it make you feel to see this new Jack Reacher come to life on screen after the
05:32movies with Tom Cruise?
05:34Well, my involvement was as executive producer, as one of several.
05:39And I believe that the most effective control that a book author can have is to choose very carefully who
05:47you work with.
05:48You need a small group of people whose work you admire, who you like as people, and who you trust
05:55as people.
05:56And if you do that right at the very beginning, before even a single word is written, before the cameras
06:02start to roll, if you get the personnel correct at the beginning, then you can just step back.
06:10You can relax and you can let them do their work without constant interference.
06:15And that works way better.
06:17So as soon as I was happy with the people, that's what I did.
06:20I stepped back and I just watched it as a fan and as a fan of television and as a
06:26fan of the character.
06:28And it was wonderful.
06:30I think it's terrific.
06:31Speaking as a fan, if I knew nothing about the books, I would be thrilled.
06:35In what do you think Jack Reacher is different from other modern action heroes?
06:41I think in two ways.
06:43First of all, he is much broader in terms of character.
06:48He's not just action.
06:50He is really happy if he's doing nothing.
06:53I mean, Reacher actually is a character who would prefer to do nothing.
06:56He just wants to live a quiet life.
06:58He wants to be left alone.
07:00He's not looking for trouble.
07:02He's not interested in sending the world to rights.
07:05But if he gets involved with something, then he is going to do it 100%.
07:09So alongside that, he is deeply interested in lots of things.
07:14He loves blues music.
07:15He loves the little details of life.
07:19He's a trivia nerd.
07:20He likes to do all kinds of things.
07:23And so he has multiple dimensions.
07:25And I think really organic as well.
07:29I mean, a lot of heroes have little characteristics that are kind of bolted on to make them more
07:35interesting.
07:36But Reacher's not like that.
07:38It goes all the way through with him.
07:40He's organically diverse.
07:41And I think that's what people are going to find appealing, that he's, in a way, a reluctant
07:48action hero.
07:50He just would rather get on the bus and go and see something interesting.
07:54Yeah.
07:55Yeah.
07:55Yeah.
08:06Yeah.
08:14Yeah.
08:17Yeah.
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