Throughout its first three seasons, with a Neagley spinoff presently filming on high of an already locked-in fourth season on the best way, Prime Video’s Reacher has received over tens of millions of followers around the globe who simply cannot get sufficient of Alan Ritchson’s titular badass. Which is an efficient factor, for the reason that actor places a number of work into sustaining his mountainous physique, even when the on-screen character by no means workout routines or lifts weights.
Whereas talking with Reacher‘s Season 3 star Johnny Berchtold about bringing the Beck household’s story to the 2025 TV schedule, I solely considerably jokingly requested if Alan Ritchson was always doing push-ups in between takes and set-ups with a purpose to preserve his arms as bulging as may very well be. And whereas that does appear to have been the case at instances, Berchtold revealed a distinct factor to his co-star’s food regimen regime that he not solely witnessed, however tried out for himself: the Reacher smoothie. Here is how he put it:
No, you understand what I am going to say, although… I imply, sure, he’s like, disappearing after which he goes to a health club that is close by, however he is gotta keep that construct. So he is simply always being fed, like, beef stroganoff. And at one level they delivered him the Reacher smoothie. And I used to be like, ‘What the hell is in that?’ And he is like, ‘What, you need some?’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, yeah. Give me a cup.’ In order that they gave me a pink solo cup of the Reacher sludge.
Oh man, I am fairly positive if somebody would return in time and inform my pre-teen self that TV actors not solely receives a commission effectively, however in addition they get to have beef stroganoff shoved of their faces every day, I may need moved out to Hollywood. However that is neither right here nor there.
The truth that Johnny Berchtold’s description went from “smoothie” to “sludge” is an efficient indicator of how this little experiment went for him. He continued:
I received two sips in, and I seemed over and he is simply downing the whole factor in a single swig. I might barely get by way of it. I used to be like, ‘I do not…I do not assume I’ve what it takes to develop into Reacher.’ However it’s fairly spectacular. It was hilarious. We might be in between takes, they usually simply feed him meals. It is so humorous to observe.
In case there’s anybody on the market who thinks Berchtold was telling me this story with a glance on his face that made the Reacher smoothie appear appetizing, let me put these ideas to relaxation. He seemed none too enthused about remembering the mysterious concoction. No matter it takes to verify Reacher Season 4 occurs with out its central star exhibiting as much as set as a 98-lb. weakling, I suppose.
When he and Alan Ritchson had been filming Richard and Reacher’s sparring scene outsidethe Becks’ home, Johnny Berchtold received a fast lesson in how effectively he would possibly do in an actual struggle in opposition to his display companion. In that he threw an actual punch into Ritchson’s chest that did not trigger the Titans vet to flinch, however made Berchtold recoil. Ritchson’s chest might be like 75% smoothie-coated metal at this level.
With one episode left to go in Reacher Season 3, followers have but to see who will survive, and what number of instances will Reacher snack on one thing. Make sure you tune in with an Amazon Prime subscription when it hits streaming on Thursday, March 27.