[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Will Trent Season 3 Episode 13, “One of Us Now.”]
Will Trent’s (Ramon Rodriguez) enterprise deep into the Olas Initiative revealed some surprising secrets and techniques… together with particulars on what’s lurking in his personal thoughts. Within the episode, the girl who escaped the cult’s compound recovered within the hospital and revealed to Angie (Erika Christensen) that their chief stole her child and left her to endure a postpartum an infection, which is why she and her buddy have been attempting to flee.
In the meantime, Will tried to search out somebody with doubts in the neighborhood to doubtlessly assist his infiltration — till the chief plied him with “soul water” and induced a hallucination fever dream wherein Will danced disco, his pup Betty turned out to have a British accent, he confessed his like to Angie a number of instances, and he admitted his unreadiness for an actual relationship to Marion (Gina Rodriguez). Solely a part of that was actual — as soon as Angie and the group snuck onto the scene to rescue Will, he mentioned these three phrases to her once more, however she brushed them off as excessive discuss.
So how was it for the forged to movie such a energetic fever dream second? And what does Angie actually consider Will’s emotional confession? TV Insider caught up with Christensen to interrupt all of it down!
To start out, what’s it been like so that you can discover a brand new romantic connection for Angie this season with Seth (Scott Foley)?
Erika Christensen: So attention-grabbing. I feel it’s good that everybody is sort of conflicted — I say everybody, however I’m undecided. [Laughs] What I like is that Scott’s character, Seth, is such an undeniably good human. He’s simply actually grounded. He’s such a superb individual, and particularly for Angie. He’s such a secure individual. He can relate to her sobriety, and he’s only a very, very wholesome, grounded individual. And so wanting to simply see Angie, who’s been by a lot within the final three years, expertise some moments of pleasure and a few hopefulness is very nice. I imply, personally, I’m additionally conflicted about it, however it’s so good.
Yeah, is there part of you that’s rooting for them to work out? Or are you with the followers that say Will and Angie are endgame?
I’m not black and white about it as a result of I shuttle between attempting to deal with them like actual folks — as if I knew all of them, they usually have been my pals — and simply the characters that I like on TV.
In the event that they have been my pals, it might be like, I feel that Will and Angie’s trauma bond is one thing that makes them household, they usually have an attractive, supportive relationship, however they most likely shouldn’t be romantically concerned. It will be good to have one another of their lives, in order that there’s all the time that individual that absolutely understands, however then additionally somebody that may aid you be extra forward-facing. That’s in the event that they have been actual folks.
So far as tv goes, sure, I need them to be collectively. They so clearly love one another, they usually have one thing that that isn’t essentially higher, however it’s completely different. It’s one thing that nobody else may ever even have, proper?
We see that play out just a little bit within the response to the officer-involved capturing when she simply exhibits up and wordlessly walks in, and it looks like possibly she’s the one individual that he even needs to speak to. What does that second say about their relationship at this level?
That’s precisely what it’s. It’s that they know one another. Not solely have they grown up and lived each a part of their lives collectively, however these varieties of shared experiences and what Angie went by final yr or with attempting to do the precise factor and harming a teen, that form of guilt and disgrace and all the things that she needed to work by there may be — and that Will didn’t assist her with. Now he satirically wants assist by an identical scenario.
Do you suppose that she’s gonna anticipate him to forgive her now that he’s gone by one thing related?
You’ll suppose that he would acquire some [perspective]. In fact, for me, it’s extra about her forgiving him, however yeah, you’d suppose that he would be capable of relate extra by this lens of his newest expertise.
This episode has a extremely enjoyable little second with the hallucination and the disco scene. How enjoyable was it for you guys to sort of dig into that little little bit of ridiculous fancy?
Oh my God, it was essentially the most enjoyable. The rehearsal course of was essentially the most enjoyable. We stored all sending one another movies of our rehearsals, and the grins couldn’t cease. And I imply, each division, too. Throughout rehearsals, we additionally noticed the lighting [team] rigging and organising all of the get together lights, they have been having a good time. I feel it was superior, additionally particularly as a result of it was such a departure. That’s the joke. That’s been the joke because the starting, particularly from Jake McLaughlin. He’s all the time been like, “When’s the musical episode?” Not joking; he wished it. He was like, “Let’s do it.” I don’t know what he was considering, however I really feel like this should have at the least partially scratched that itch of discovering a solution to actually make it story-wise make sense, and yeah, we did the musical episode.
The sequence additionally retains the Will-Angie storyline going, when he says “I like you” to her. Do you suppose she’s actually chalking that as much as soul water, or does she know there’s extra there?
I feel she is aware of that deep down, the connection that they’ve received’t go away. So it’s there, however it was simply the sacred water speaking.
All season lengthy, there’s been this recurring arc with Rafael Wexler [Antwayn Hopper] and Will. Contemplating Angie additionally goes again that far, is there one thing between them, too? Will we see them cross paths in some unspecified time in the future?
Not that I do know of up to now. And I imply, I do know the remainder of the season, so no. It’s attention-grabbing to see that they could have had little elements of their lives away from one another — simply little chapters away from one another in the entire strategy of rising up. Rafael and Will had such an attention-grabbing, intense chapter collectively that it is smart that they’re pretty bonded, regardless that they hadn’t seen one another in 20 years. However yeah, I don’t know what particular overlap Angie and Rafael may need had, however I like that it’s there to be discovered at some later level additionally.
This season began out with Angie being reinstated, however she appears to essentially be leaning into taking extra dangers once more. She took a threat with Jon the upkeep employee after which on this episode, she will get in proper into it. Does she really feel assured at this level that she’s within the good graces of the division?
I don’t know that she’s going to ever absolutely know as a result of there isn’t an official, “All of us belief you now!” However I feel she’s getting again towards trusting herself, which was form of that greatest hurdle: being conscious of the issue, being conscious of the truth that she 100% thought she was heading in the right direction with Crystal and was blinded by primarily their similarities and her empathy for this individual and that she needed to be sharper and be much more self-aware than she usually is with a view to do her job and keep secure and preserve different folks secure. I feel that’s sort of what she was placing on Will when he wished to go undercover. Her factor was, “Don’t you perceive that you just match precisely their goal kind? You might be in danger.” Like, “Sure, you wish to do it to your work, but additionally don’t try this.”
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Angie’s partnership with Michael is actually sturdy this season. Are they doing just a little little bit of trauma bonding by having gone by breakups that have been horrible for every of them?
Yeah, I’m certain. It’s actually particular, their relationship. I really feel like Jake and I discovered one thing early on in capturing. After which, in fact, it could possibly solely develop from there, each by the non-public experiences and the characters’ experiences. And each going by the dangerous breakups or him having to decide on to assist Angie when she requested for assist in sort of doctoring proof within the Crystal-Lenny [murder] scenario. Thank goodness he didn’t get implicated in it later. However yeah, I feel they’re attending to that time the place they’re pretty inextricably linked. It will be tough for every of them to operate with out one another, regardless that they’ve been engaged on that, too. And it’s nice to see Ormewood and Religion being roomies, and it’s nice to see Angie having a romance and all these items. However in a manner, I really feel like, I imply, my joke has been that Angie and Ormewood are fraternal twins, separated at delivery — by some means he received the great household life, however she didn’t. I really feel a deep similarity, a frequency, between these two.
What else is to come back from the previous few episodes of this season? And what’s your response to the renewal for Season 4?
Oh my gosh. Okay, the quantity of the story that they’ve crammed into the final six episodes is astonishing. I don’t know the place to begin. I imply, I can inform you, I directed Episode 17 of 18, and the quantity of story that’s in 17 alone is astonishing, and that’s simply one of many upcoming six episodes. So there’s rather a lot to tune in for and rather a lot that adjustments to our view of this world now we have created. And it units up Season 4 to be a complete new exploration.
After which my response to that’s I’m excited. I’ve to acknowledge that that is how I felt final hiatus, too; I’m not a author, so I don’t [know] … I’m sort of overwhelmed by the chances. I don’t know precisely the place all the things goes. I’ve some sense of an thought — issues may change, however there may be an thought of the place Angie goes. However I’m simply excited to return to this work surroundings as a result of it’s a spot the place it’s a secure, artistic area, and it looks like, collectively, forged and crew, we’re grateful to be there, which is actually particular. Like, the crew is vacationing collectively as we communicate. Not everyone, however the day after we wrapped, 5 folks went to go snowboarding collectively and snowboarding collectively, and we received invited, too. Like, “Oh, we’re having a celebration over right here, and we’re having a celebration over [there].” I don’t wish to say the trite factor and say it’s a household, however it’s a very tight-knit neighborhood. And in a time when not everyone seems to be working, there’s not sufficient work to go round, we all know how fortunate we’re. After which to, on high of being fortunate to be working, work on one thing that we love and we are literally all invested in, with the forged and crew invested within the artistic endeavor of this present, I’m tremendous excited to get again into that place.
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