SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Reacher, Season 4 finale episode "Cut" As Alan Ritchson's Reacher brings another far-reaching crime to justice, Kathleen Robertson thinks it could be just the beginning for ...
SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Reacher , Season 4 finale episode "Cut"
As Alan Ritchson's Reacher brings another far-reaching crime to justice, Kathleen Robertson thinks it could be just the beginning for her politico Elspeth Sampson.
The Reacher star recently discussed the Season 4 finale episode "Cut" with Deadline, noting that it's "certainly set up" for her newly widowed character to become a powerful ally for the titular retired soldier in the Prime Video series.
"That's my hope. Let's put it out there into the universe," said Robertson. "Yeah, I mean, I think that she's certainly set up that way. And it's been nice to see people's responses."
Initially, Elspeth fields Reacher's request to meet her North Carolina congressman husband John Sampson (Marc Blucas) when the mystery-solving drifter connects the suicide of a Pentagon employee to a photo of the politician during a 1998 military operation in Indonesia.
"The role was fun for me. I love playing obviously very strong, complicated women, and I tend to be sent those roles a lot, which is great," she explained. "I think they really were sort of looking for somebody that could kind of be believable, going toe-to-toe with Alan Ritchson and not at all having it feel forced, not having it feel like an inherent power imbalance."
Robertson added, "And I know for [Ritchson], he loved that as well, and it was sort of an interesting color for him to play with."
Following her husband's heroic sacrifice in the penultimate episode, when he tackles a chemical bomber into the ocean, Elspeth embraces Reacher as an ally, revealing her intention to take over her husband's presidential journey.
"It's always that interesting, funny thing as a woman when you're married to a man who sort of has the visible power and people just sort of automatically assume at the beginning that she's just his plus-one and his wife," Robertson said. "But she's obviously not, and she's much more than that."
Read on about Kathleen Robertson's role in Season 4 of Reacher , now available to stream on Prime Video.
DEADLINE: Tell me about joining this ensemble and playing Elspeth, this high-powered politician's wife.
KATHLEEN ROBERTSON: It was fun. It was really fun. It's always really great as an actor to work on a show that people actually love and watch. We work on so many projects as actors that never see the light of day, or we love so much and go to film festivals, and then like 250 people see them. So, it's fun to be a part of something that is so wildly loved and successful, and the role was fun for me. I love playing obviously very strong, complicated women, and I tend to be sent those roles a lot, which is great. I think they really were sort of looking for somebody that could kind of be believable, going toe-to-toe with Alan Ritchson and not at all having it feel forced, not having it feel like an inherent power imbalance. So, I think that that was something that was really fun to kind of play with in a sort of small subtle way, to just kind of trust that the power with this woman is inherent and it's part of the DNA of who she is as a human being, and so she doesn't have to necessarily say a lot. It's just kind of the essence of how she moves through the world, and so that was really fun to play with. With Alan in that regard, with those scenes, it was fun and I didn't have to do any stunts, which made me very happy. I'm not a stunt person, I hate doing that kind of stuff.
DEADLINE: I also saw you posting photos of your outfit and getting to wear the red bottoms.
ROBERTSON: Yeah, of course. She was fun. She's very different from me in that regard. I felt very much like a politician's wife when I would get into wardrobe.
DEADLINE: And you mentioned going toe-to-toe with Alan. I really appreciated that first meeting between the two of you because he has so many physical opponents that he goes head to head with, as far as fighting, but he doesn't have too many mental opponents.
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