'Will Trent' Exclusive: Ramón Rodríguez Interview

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00:00 Thank you.

00:00 - Obviously last season ended with,

00:02 that was quite the finale.

00:04 Where, what can you sort of say about

00:07 Will and Angie's dynamic in the wake of what happened

00:10 and sort of how things were sort of left,

00:13 you know, don't know how she's doing and everything,

00:15 sort of where does that go from here?

00:18 - Yes, I mean for, you know, Angie,

00:21 we're gonna kind of watch her sort of

00:23 physically try to get herself back.

00:25 And in our relationship, I mean, you know,

00:29 season one was complicated.

00:30 It was a lot, we got to watch these two

00:32 sort of trigger each other throughout,

00:34 make up, break up, it was that sort of push pull,

00:38 but you know, at the end of the day,

00:40 these two are bonded very deeply.

00:43 There's a lot of love there.

00:44 They've been through a lot together.

00:46 They know each of each other's darkest secrets.

00:49 And I think at the top of season two,

00:52 we find Will being maybe a little slightly cautious

00:55 about this relationship.

00:57 You know, he knows what it is if he gets close to her

01:01 and they can just dive right back into that comfort cycle

01:04 of the chaos that they are in a lot of ways.

01:07 And so I think at least at the top of the season,

01:09 he's a little bit, there's some trepidation there.

01:13 He's a little cautious.

01:14 There's a little sort of soft boundaries there.

01:15 So like, do we go there?

01:17 Do I not go there?

01:18 Is she dating?

01:19 You know, am I, you know,

01:20 I don't think he's actively looking for someone,

01:22 but someone does enter his life.

01:24 - Okay, that'll be interesting.

01:26 So I was gonna ask you, obviously,

01:28 Will and Andrea are very bonded from their past.

01:30 They have a lot of history together.

01:32 I asked Eric this earlier.

01:33 It's like, do you think they're ultimately,

01:36 they would be good romantic partners

01:38 or do you maybe see them as more platonic soulmates?

01:41 Or is that the question?

01:42 - I mean, that's kind of the question,

01:44 but I think, you know, if outside of that,

01:47 it's like there's a part of me, I think,

01:49 if I was an audience I'm looking at,

01:50 I'd go, can they figure this out?

01:52 Like, you kind of want them, like, can you?

01:54 You know there's a lot of love there.

01:55 Is it possible?

01:57 But then maybe if you were a good friend of theirs,

01:59 you would say, you guys need to stop.

02:01 Y'all need to like go your separate ways.

02:03 If you can work it out as friends, great.

02:05 You know, it makes for good characters in television

02:09 and that relationship, that dynamic conflict of like,

02:11 you know, is this good for us?

02:13 Do we work out?

02:14 You know, there's a lot of compatibility,

02:16 but there's a lot of trauma

02:18 and there's a lot of things that haven't been worked out.

02:20 And so I don't think, obviously,

02:21 that they intend to hurt each other,

02:23 but they do end up sort of in this vicious cycle.

02:25 And so I'm not sure.

02:27 - We'll see. - Yeah.

02:29 - You know, Will did find out a lot about his mother,

02:32 you know, towards the end of the season,

02:33 but that sort of provokes the question, his father.

02:36 And it did come up slightly.

02:38 Is that gonna be something he maybe

02:41 wants to explore this season?

02:44 - Yeah, I think this season, you know,

02:46 Will's interest and curiosities peaked.

02:49 He got some real nuggets about his life,

02:51 a little bit, like you said, about his mom.

02:54 You know, I love that moment that we had

02:55 where his mom visited him at the end of season one

02:58 while he was really struggling with a case.

03:01 He got to learn that maybe James is his dad,

03:03 which would be a pretty major bomb.

03:05 And he got to learn the role

03:08 that Amanda played in his childhood, you know,

03:10 and that she found him in the trash

03:12 and her relationship with his mom.

03:14 So I think he's definitely in a place

03:17 where he wants to, he's curious.

03:20 He is, he wants to know more.

03:22 And I think the question just becomes

03:23 how far down that rabbit hole does he go

03:26 and how does that impact him psychologically and emotionally?

03:30 - Yeah, 'cause there's an element of abandonment there.

03:32 - Oh, for sure.

03:33 - And he's definitely not someone to let it go.

03:36 - No.

03:37 - To just be like, I'm okay, we're normal.

03:39 - Yeah, he can pretend on the surface

03:40 as if he's fine and he's good at doing that.

03:43 But obviously those things are starting to churn up for him.

03:45 - Yeah, I wanted to ask, you know,

03:46 tap into a little bit of that conversation

03:49 between Will and Amanda at the end of last season.

03:51 I thought it was such a turning point,

03:54 you know, revelatory moment between the both of them.

03:57 You know, where does that relationship go in season two?

04:00 I find that the chemistry between the two of you

04:03 and just that relationship

04:04 is such a strong component of this.

04:06 - Yeah, you know, it's conflicted.

04:07 You know, like he, on one hand,

04:11 feels absolutely betrayed by her.

04:13 She didn't tell him these secrets

04:14 and these things that she knew about his life and his mom.

04:17 Like, how could she not?

04:19 Knowing that these are real big holes in his life.

04:22 But at the other hand, she saved him.

04:24 She took him in.

04:25 She brought him into the GBI.

04:27 Like, so it's complicated.

04:29 And the reality is, in that world,

04:31 it's hard to talk about certain things,

04:33 especially in the culture of being a cop.

04:35 And so I think both Amanda and Will

04:37 are people that really do sort of keep things in

04:42 and don't talk about it and aren't vulnerable.

04:44 That last scene at the end of season one,

04:46 they didn't really say anything, but it was loaded.

04:48 And I think that's kind of their dynamic.

04:50 That's how they handle these things.

04:52 And so I think we'll have moments

04:53 where we get to touch on it,

04:55 but I don't know how deep these people are gonna,

04:57 you know, and the healthiest versions of themselves

05:00 be able to sort of really talk about it.

05:02 - Totally.

05:03 We'll get there.

05:03 - Yeah, hopefully.

05:05 - You know, Will and Ormwood haven't always seen Ida High.

05:08 We did get into a better place by the end of the season.

05:11 Will we sort of see more of their dynamic in season two?

05:15 You guys have a great, playful, you know,

05:17 buddy heads energy.

05:18 - Yeah, I think people really like that.

05:21 The writers like that.

05:22 You know, Liz and I talk about it.

05:23 We like seeing them together.

05:25 So we'd love that, you know.

05:27 The top of the season, we sort of start of this new season

05:30 with sort of the whole crew kind of back together.

05:33 You know, one thing that was important was

05:35 we wanted to make it feel like we're back.

05:39 The show is back and there's a familiarity to it.

05:42 And so we sort of, you know, we introduce,

05:44 we bring Betty back, we bring the handkerchief,

05:47 the tape recorder, sort of the things

05:48 that we associate with this show.

05:50 And one of those things is Jake's character Ormwood.

05:54 So I'm excited.

05:55 We will be having those moments

05:57 where we get to see them together again.

05:58 And whether it's case related or personal related,

06:02 we'll make that happen.

06:03 - And I love how the show, you know, interweaves that,

06:05 you know, the working relationships

06:06 and the personal relationships

06:07 and a lot of those get intertwined, obviously.

06:10 Will and Faith, you know, what can their partnership,

06:13 where, what can you sort of say about that evolution?

06:16 - Yeah, I mean, it's been nice to see

06:18 that partnership slowly evolve.

06:21 It's been a bit of a slow burn,

06:22 but I think, you know, this season we'll see

06:24 a bit more of a rapport between the two of them, you know.

06:28 And so it's fun because I think for Will, again,

06:31 letting anyone in, it's not instant.

06:33 It's not fast because of what he's been through.

06:35 So he's pretty guarded, protected.

06:36 And, but they've now spent some time together

06:40 and they've been through some stuff together.

06:41 So that relationship is gonna continue to evolve for sure.

06:44 - So it feels like everybody's sort of bonded

06:46 more than they've ever been.

06:48 - Yeah, yeah, there's a bit,

06:50 at least with that relationship, you know,

06:52 with Amanda, things have been revealed.

06:54 We'll see how far they each get into that

06:56 and get to explore any of that and how they do if they do.

06:59 - Yeah, 'cause there's a certain, you know,

07:01 it's almost maternal in a way, tough love.

07:04 - For sure. - With Amanda.

07:05 And I think that's really an interesting thing

07:06 to sort of maybe explore.

07:08 - Yeah, yeah, it is.

07:09 And we do get to play with it.

07:11 And, you know, I think for the most part,

07:13 we've only kind of seen Will's perspective

07:16 on that experience a little bit.

07:18 And I think there's always another side to that.

07:20 - And I was saying this earlier,

07:22 I think what's so special about this show

07:24 is how it weaves the past into the present,

07:26 - Yeah. - the flashbacks.

07:27 - Yeah. - I think that that is such

07:28 a crucial part of this show that makes it so riveting.

07:31 - Yeah. - And so I'm really excited

07:32 to see more of those. - Yeah.

07:34 - As well. - Yeah, we like doing that

07:36 because, you know, it helps inform

07:37 the people that we're seeing today

07:39 and what shaped them and what happened, good and bad.

07:41 And so, you know, we got to do that last season

07:44 with Will, young Will and young Angie.

07:47 We got to also do it with young Amanda

07:49 and also with Faith's mom.

07:51 So, you know, that stuff is fun

07:53 when we find the storylines

07:54 that help us tie those flashbacks in.

07:57 And the writers have done a really great job

07:59 of working that out.

08:01 - The casting, I was gonna say,

08:02 I mean, the younger version. - Is amazing.

08:04 - I was like, it's kind of uncanny.

08:06 - Yeah. - How much they look the same.

08:08 - Yeah, yeah. - Like.

08:10 - She's her like young spirit, without a doubt.

08:12 She has, she embodies young Amanda.

08:15 - Truly. - Yeah.

08:16 - Is there anything you can tease about the cases

08:18 that maybe are a certain mystery

08:20 that maybe we'll get to?

08:22 - I mean, you know, what we did,

08:24 which was really cool last year

08:25 and we're doing it again this year,

08:27 is when we can tap into certain cultural specificities.

08:31 And we did that last year with Lake Lanier

08:34 and the history there.

08:36 And we do that a bit with this season,

08:40 where we get to tap into some specificity

08:42 with regards to the South and Georgia.

08:44 And so there's a case that sort of develops and unfolds.

08:48 And we get to, and we play with, you know,

08:50 it's just interesting, like when you know the rules

08:52 and parameters of how a character operates

08:54 and then you challenge that.

08:55 You find ways to poke and provoke it.

08:58 And we do that.

08:58 You know, we talk about sort of the idea of faith

09:01 and like capital F and what that means for,

09:05 I mean, lowercase F and what that means for Will.

09:07 - I was gonna say, I'm from North Carolina originally.

09:10 So I'm very well aware of like how faith plays a role

09:13 in just, you know, society and whatnot,

09:17 especially in the South.

09:18 - Sure, yeah.

09:19 - So that'll be very interesting to sort of tap into.

09:22 - Yep.

09:22 - Awesome, well, thank you so much.

09:24 Congrats on season two.

09:25 - Thank you, thank you.

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