Yeah, I’m sure. It’s really special, their relationship. I feel like Jake and I found something early on in shooting. And then, of course, it can only grow from there, both through the personal experiences and the characters’ experiences.
And both going through the bad breakups or him having to choose to help Angie when she asked for help in kind of doctoring evidence in the Crystal-Lenny [murder] situation. Thank goodness he didn’t get implicated in it later. But yeah, I think they’re getting to that point where they’re fairly inextricably linked. It would be difficult for each of them to function without each other, even though they’ve been working on that, too. And it’s great to see Ormewood and Faith being roomies, and it’s great to see Angie having a romance and all these things. But in a way, I feel like, I mean, my joke has been that Angie and Ormewood are fraternal twins, separated at birth — somehow he got the good family life, but she didn’t. I feel a deep similarity, a frequency, between those two.
What else is to come from the last few episodes of this season? And what’s your reaction to the renewal for Season 4?
Oh my gosh. Okay, the amount of the story that they have crammed into the last six episodes is astonishing. I don’t know where to start. I mean, I can tell you, I directed Episode 17 of 18, and the amount of story that is in 17 alone is astonishing, and that’s just one of the upcoming six episodes. So there’s a lot to tune in for and a lot that changes to our view of this world we have created. And it sets up Season 4 to be a whole new exploration.
And then my reaction to that is I’m excited. I have to recognize that this is how I felt last hiatus, too; I’m not a writer, so I don’t [know] … I’m kind of overwhelmed by the possibilities. I don’t know exactly where everything is going. I have some sense of an idea — things could change, but there is an idea of where Angie is going. But I’m just excited to go back to this work environment because it’s a place where it’s a safe, creative space, and it seems like, collectively, cast and crew, we’re grateful to be there, which is really special. Like, the crew is vacationing together as we speak. Not everybody, but the day after we wrapped, five people went to go snowboarding together and skiing together, and we got invited, too. Like, “Oh, we’re having a party over here, and we’re having a party over [there].” I don’t want to say the trite thing and say it’s a family, but it is a very tight-knit community. And in a time when not everyone is working, there’s not enough work to go around, we know how lucky we are. And then to, on top of being lucky to be working, work on something that we love and we are actually all invested in, with the cast and crew invested in the creative endeavor of this show, I’m super excited to get back into that place.
Will Trent, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC
