It’s been about three and a half years since Prodigal Son was canceled, and we nonetheless suppose it deserved at the least one other season to wrap up that wild cliffhanger. No, critically, we are able to discuss this present for hours. And so when Dermot Mulroney, who had a killer arc on the finish of the primary season as Nicholas Endicott, stopped by TV Insider’s New York workplace to speak about his latest position enjoying the brand new chief on Chicago Hearth, we needed to ask him about his bloody ending on the short-lived Fox drama.
That was “a really well-written character,” Mulroney recalled. “That present actually caught folks. It’s such a disgrace it didn’t proceed as a result of folks have been loopy about it. They nonetheless are, they’re rewatching it, in fact. However they’d arrange a lot for him.” Because of the pandemic and filming the top of Season 1 out of order, a few episodes weren’t capable of be filmed which might have explored Nicholas and Jessica’s (Bellamy Younger) relationship “as being one thing the place it’s nearly like a romantic comedy,” govt producer Chris Fedak instructed us on the time.
That was information to Mulroney, who recalled filming proper as much as the shutdown. “My understanding is that I had the identical ending. They simply compressed it as a result of they needed to hustle up and mix episodes and eradicate one or two simply to get to that finish zone,” he shared earlier than raving about that ending: Ainsley (Halston Sage) killing him in spite of everything season Martin (Michael Sheen) had been centered on Malcolm (Tom Payne) presumably following in his murderous footsteps. That each one led to that “my lady” second.
“Modifications it up on the finish as a result of she utterly eviscerates me,” Mulroney stated of the “ugly” scene for which lots needed to be considered. “They have been anxious about blood on the carpet of the set as a result of now we have to shoot there later. The clock was ticking, we have been masked, and there have been screens and gloves and every thing on that set. It was a scramble to do it. So it was mayhem.”
Mulroney additionally performed the cello for Prodigal Son, and he praised the present’s composer Tim Perrine. Whereas he wasn’t current in Season 2, he recollects that Endicott was talked about “endlessly,” as he put it. “I stored listening to from associates, ‘Why aren’t you on the present?’”
One thing he significantly loved about being a part of Prodigal Son was working with Lou Diamond Phillips (who performed Gil); they beforehand starred collectively in Younger Weapons. “To look at him work… He’s an excellent actor and has all types of different qualities on the set, would take too lengthy to elucidate, however that was superb to see him once more.”