With Lucy Chen now a coaching officer, Melissa O’Neil has realized one thing new about her character this 12 months on The Rookie.
“I’ve all the time felt that Lucy was an individual who, perpetually, to a fault, gave folks the good thing about the doubt and was all the time giving them likelihood after likelihood after likelihood,” O’Neil tells TV Insider as a part of our Booked: The Rookie Aftershow. That’s not the case along with her rookie, Seth (Patrick Keleher), whom she has caught in lies about his girlfriends.
Whereas she thinks that stems from how she feels about her youthful brother, O’Neil admits that she was shocked by how suspicious Lucy has been of Seth (she does some investigating when issues don’t add up). “I really feel like she would possibly imagine him to a fault. I really feel like that is likely to be her fallibility so far as being a coaching officer, however I actually appreciated that they really determined to lean into her instinct and the power of her instinct on this approach and permitting that to sort of unfold with that,” she says. “She has a nostril for it. I like that as a substitute of leaning into this kindness that she has, we opted to lean into the truth that she’s truly actually good at her job and sniffing out one thing instinctively that’s amiss.”
After Lucy confronted Seth in regards to the lies, and he blamed stress and panicking, he stated it was a wake-up name and he’ll change going ahead. Lucy’s not so positive she will be able to imagine that. “Her intestine and the whole lot she’s seeing is telling her in any other case,” based on O’Neil. “There’s this fixed interior battle.” She provides that Keleher’s “candy, charming face and the best way he performs it [as] so endearing and honest” makes it even more durable.
Lucy did plan to speak to Gray (Richard T. Jones) about Seth … just for Seth to inform him proper earlier than that his most cancers is again, nevertheless it was caught early and he can nonetheless work. O’Neil says that a part of Lucy did marvel if he was mendacity in regards to the most cancers. “She appears like he’s mendacity, however how do you accuse somebody of mendacity about having most cancers with out wanting like an absolute off-the-rocker or insensitive human being? So it’s a splendidly unattainable state of affairs, particularly for a personality like Lucy,” she explains.
Amidst these questions on Seth, Lucy goes to be placing her religion in him for an undercover task within the February 18 episode, “The Mickey.” O’Neil reveals the stakes of which might be “so much greater” than simply trusting him to have her again.
“She’s trusting him to have someone else’s again, not hers,” she previews. “It actually elevates the stakes for his or her relationship and the results of his potential mendacity. If he’s mendacity, it actually simply all the rigidity begins ramping up due to that mission that she units him onto.”
Lucy has been speaking to Tim (Eric Winter), however after the exes connected on Valentine’s Day, O’Neil tells us she expects them to attempt to preserve a ways. Does that imply she gained’t proceed to show to him about Seth?
“That’ll be the attention-grabbing factor,” notes O’Neil. “It’s leaning again onto the truth that they’re such good teammates and he or she trusts him implicitly as a mentor outdoors of it. That’s the origin of their relationship. Though she has by no means felt that his strategies had been possibly all the time pure, she has all the time revered his capability and his opinion and his perception in these methods.” That a part of their relationship stays the identical.
“That’s the gorgeous factor about them, as messy and complicated and great and candy as their out-of-work relationship has change into,” she continues. “That’s actually necessary so far as the underlying tenets of who these persons are. They’re good at their job, and so they know compartmentalize these issues. Lucy specifically goes to be actually good at that due to her background and the best way that she actually took to undercover work as effectively. She is aware of part issues off.”
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