[Warning: The following post contains spoilers for The Rainmaker‘s series premiere.]
Once we first meet Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) within the new sequence adaptation of The Rainmaker, he appears to be on high of the world. He’s bought a brilliant and exquisite girlfriend in Sarah Plankmore (Madison Iseman) and a brand new job as a first-year affiliate on the prestigious Tinley Britt legislation agency proper alongside her.
It doesn’t take lengthy, although, for issues to crumble. After listening to that his mom’s boyfriend desires to interchange his late brother’s room with a house health club, he picks a struggle that turns into bodily, leaving his swimsuit and face bloodied up simply in time for his first day on the workplace. Not solely does he arrive late and matted to work, however he will get challenged by his new boss, Leo Drummond (John Slattery), to call an individual for whom the authorized system isn’t truthful. He rises to the event, emphatically explains why home violence victims don’t have the identical rights below the present system, however this rankles Leo to the purpose that he fires him proper then and there.
So is he self-sabotaging by beginning that argument on the morning of his massive day? Per Callaghan, the reply isn’t any. “I believe he’s defending his mother. I believe that’s an actual valiant second of possibly misguided valor within the face of what he sees as an abuse and a manipulation of somebody he loves,” the actor informed TV Insider.
After Rudy is summarily dismissed by Drummond and struggles to search out one other profitable alternative — hiring season has already previous — his final finest hope comes within the type of “Bruiser” Lyman (Lana Parrilla), an legal professional who has a historical past with Rudy’s former boss on the bar, Prince (Tommie Earl Jenkins).
He’s not fairly offered on her method to the observe, nonetheless. After assembly her and seeing Deck (P.J. Byrne) in motion, dropping into hospital rooms to signal unsuspecting new purchasers, he makes that a lot clear.
Rudy’s aversion to each variations of lawyering — the chilly, company styling of Drummond and Bruiser’s morally doubtful type — is straightforward sufficient for the actor portraying him.
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“I believe that there’s a vanity to either side. I don’t know if he even sees himself as beneath Leo. I believe a part of his crutch and why he falls off very early on is that… his conceitedness pits him in opposition to his boss — this boss of an enormous agency, who I’m positive he appears as much as and thinks about in a very, like, reverent method, till he’s fired,” Callaghan defined. “So when he meets Bruiser, it’s much less Bruiser and it’s extra about what she stands for. It’s this concept of the legislation. I believe Rudy may be very idealistic and has a really idealistic view of the legislation and the world, and she or he shatters that for him as a result of she represents this type of again avenue ambulance chasing group of contingent price attorneys who appear, in his thoughts, to prey on the susceptible and the weak, and that doesn’t sit effectively with him.”
Rudy has an opportunity to alter the calculus, after all, when he decides to tackle Dot Black (Karen Bryson) as his first consumer at Bruiser’s agency. Her son died in a hospital after coming in with a foul case of the flu, and she or he’s satisfied it was because of negligence and desires justice. His expertise with loss endears him to her, and she or he indicators on with him… even when which means he’ll be at odds with Sarah and her agency.
The Rainmaker, Fridays, 10/9c, USA