We all know that Bell (Elliot Knight) has one aim — director of the FBI — however your complete process drive may have the identical one after Countdown‘s Season 1 finale: Discover Oliveras (Jessica Camacho).
The finale ended with the sniper the workforce is after, Todd (Grant Harvey), kidnapping her and telling her to run throughout a area … and we actually hope he doesn’t shoot her within the again. The remainder of the duty drive, in the meantime, is studying extra about stated sniper (like he’s FBI, however not the agent they thought). Beneath, Elliot Knight discusses the thriller of Todd and the way Bell’s time on the duty drive has modified him, shares his hopes for a second season, and extra.
What’s Bell’s tackle Todd at this level?
Elliot Knight: I don’t know that Bell has that a lot to go on, to be sincere. He’s at all times case-focused, and I believe it’s vital to at all times preserve a transparent head and a transparent thoughts with that and never come to any strong conclusions too early. So I believe that well, Bell simply has his eyes on the prize of fixing the case and understanding that anybody might be concerned in any means. I believe he’s studying, if he hasn’t already, that surprises might be ready round each nook, and a shock in itself shouldn’t be a shock to him if he’s doing his job. And yeah, he positively matches in that class.
And I believe that facet of Bell goes to be wanted going ahead as a result of now that Todd has Oliveras, we all know that Meachum (Jensen Ackles) goes to go off the rails. Bell is perhaps wanted to rein him in.
Yeah, I imply, there’s each likelihood that we’re going to really feel much more of the connections and the hearth that may be ignited due to the chemistry of this process drive. We’re seeing it in several methods constructing already, and I don’t know the way Bell will match into that or how he won’t, however it’s positively going to be an fascinating factor to see the way it performs out.
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So that you’ve been speaking about Bell’s final aim, director of the FBI, however has engaged on the duty drive modified that in any respect for him as a result of he’s now seeing this different facet of the job?
Sure, that’s a terrific query. I do suppose that the time on the duty drive has illuminated a broader scope of how this job could be finished than how Bell has sometimes targeted on it. I believe he’s historically very by the e book federal agent dedicated to the trigger who desires to do issues proper and isn’t occupied with bending the foundations to swimsuit him in any means. That doesn’t assist enhance himself and his capacity to do the job properly. However as he will get nearer to this workforce, sees their capacity to carry out and succeed, but in addition a few of the methods that do contain bending the foundations a bit of and so they do contain not being as straight and slender, I do suppose that that has an impression on how he feels, not about attaining his aim, however how he may get there. It’s presumably going to contain greater than he’s possibly ready for or not. I don’t know the way that’s going to play out, however it’s positively going to make that journey much more stunning and loads much less of a assure that it’s going to be easy.
And there’s additionally the truth that if he’s seeing that he enjoys being within the area, that’s a desk job, he might not need that as quickly as he thought he may.
100%. I believe if anybody instructed him he’s going to be caught at a desk, he would hate that. And I’d say as Elliot, I’d not be an enormous fan of that, both. [Laughs] I positively share the fervour of desirous to be on the market getting issues finished and being part of the motion, however some issues are bigger than simply the enjoyment of the second. I believe that will be such an achievement — it will be extra than simply what his expertise was within the job. It will be about what meaning and empowers exterior of himself the identical means, actually, that I really feel about any roles that I get to do as an actor and together with this one. It’s not nearly what my expertise is making it, which has been wonderful actually. Nevertheless it’s additionally about what this might empower exterior of my very own expertise. And I do really feel like Bell has the same worth system. He’ll see the brightness of the torch that he can ignite if he reaches that top in his area of labor. And that doesn’t burn only for his personal heat. It burns for everyone else to see from no matter distance.
And in addition, Bell is the kind of one that does think about that.
Precisely, yeah, he would. He cares about what he does, and although he’s there to show himself, he’s not within the job as a result of it’s self-serving. It’s the literal reverse. It’s about serving your group, your individuals, it’s the individuals round you. I believe if he was extra selfishly inclined, this is able to not be the road of labor that he can be part of. There are a lot of different issues he might be doing. And in addition, he has a legacy to uphold. And I do suppose that there’s both a drive or stress or each there to not drop the baton. He has to maintain this going. And if there’s a technique to make his ancestors and his father and grandfather earlier than him proud, that’s the obvious means that he can do this. And so I don’t suppose that that aim goes to vanish anytime quickly.
There must be a second season after that ending.
[Laughs] Agreed.
Assuming there may be, what would you wish to discover with Bell each on and off the job?
I’m actually intrigued to be taught extra about Bell as an individual. I believe there’s a really sturdy sense of his identification at work, however as we see with all the opposite characters, the cracks are beneath the floor, and so they’re probably the most fascinating elements of the individuals. Bell appears comparatively to have only a few cracks or near none, however clearly, the reality of that’s going to be completely different. So I’d like to see him a bit extra uncooked and uncovered and likewise to see what a few of his challenges and weaknesses are and see him battle with one thing that’s very private to him that isn’t work adjoining. That’s one in every of my favourite issues concerning the present, and I believe what makes it completely different from different exhibits on this style, is we’re actually exploring the complete complexities and humanities of those characters. It’s the enjoyable, it’s the jokes, it’s the camaraderie, it’s additionally the darkness and the secrets and techniques and the way all of them mix into one. I need to see extra colours of Bell’s rainbow, I’ll put it that means.
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