[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Will Trent Season 2 Episode 5 “Capt. Duke Wagner’s Daughter.”]
All eyes have been on Amanda Wagner (Sonja Sohn) in Tuesday’s episode of Will Trent — together with these of a person she desperately didn’t wish to see her ever once more. Following up on final week’s cliffhanger, which noticed Amanda obtain a threatening name and scratched message warning that it’s “time to pay,” audiences lastly came upon who was stalking her in “Capt. Duke Wagner’s Daughter.”
Because it seems, a visitors cease modified her life again within the ’80s. After pulling a person over at evening, she was viciously attacked by the driving force and declined to report the assault after he drove away. That assailant went on to commit a number of subsequent atrocities to ladies, concentrating on them by placing nails of their tires in order that they’d have to tug over and be susceptible to assault. Amanda took issues into her personal fingers by planting sufficient medicine on him to have him despatched to jail for a very long time. Sadly for her, his sentence wasn’t for all times, and when he received out, he determined to actual revenge towards Amanda.
Not solely did he threaten her bodily, however he additionally threatened to show her for falsifying proof, which might threaten her standing as chief of the GBI. Whereas Will Trent (Ramon Rodriguez) was supportive of Amanda and inspired her to maintain the lid on her previous misdeed, Religion (Iantha Richardson) was devastated by her mentor’s determination.
Although justice was served — for the appropriate causes, this time — the scars of Amanda’s previous will proceed to point out for a while. TV Insider spoke to Sohn about her huge episode to learn the way this modifications the sport for the character and what it is going to imply for her relationships.
Amanda is all the time actually sturdy within the present, so what’s it like so that you can faucet into this extra susceptible facet of her on this episode?
Sonja Sohn: Oh, it’s actually thrilling, you understand? Yeah, it was simply thrilling to do. She’s the boss, a.okay.a. the supervisor, so there’s not plenty of actual property for her for that function. It’s not even about her however for the function given to me by way of a one-hour episode. So once we get to see extra of her backstory and extra of her life, historical past, what makes her tick? It’s very thrilling.
Talking of that, that is the primary time we see the present-day character get to handle the sexism and abuse she went via. What’s it been like so that you can see these flashbacks of the character, and was that backstory already factored into your efficiency earlier than?
Initially, I simply thought Sydney Park‘s work in these flashback episodes, I really like her. With a personality, you’re invested. It’s my job to be invested within the character within the function. I put all of it into it, and once I noticed her give these performances that have been actually knocked out… I had not factored into Amanda’s historical past that she had been brutally assaulted on the job. I knew she had been harassed, however you don’t know that sort of info.
You construct out. It’s important to construct out all types of historical past which can be sort of gonna go by some means, relying on what reveals up, however this was not a component that I factored into her historical past. So it was a discovery for me, and once I noticed it as an actor, there was an pleasure there. It’s, “Ah, there’s one thing I can sink my enamel into.” But in addition that offers me an, “Oh, all of that is now knowledgeable by this.”
It’s important to create that it doesn’t matter what. I’ve created some issues for her earlier than, which I don’t have to reveal, however once you get to specifics from the present from the writers themselves, it will get aligned with their imaginative and prescient, as a result of the writers are the visionaries. And I’m attempting to point out up for what they’ve of their heads.
So one other aspect of her that has been revealed is that she planted proof. Morally, there’s some grey space there as a result of the man that she did it to positively deserved to be behind bars. Do you suppose she was afraid of getting uncovered or was she prepared to simply come clean with it?
I don’t suppose she wished to be uncovered. She didn’t wish to lose her job. However the excellent news is that Amanda ultimately actually did personal what occurred, and so she was keen to stroll away from her job and step absolutely into her integrity. I imply, I get it… And you understand, there are plenty of ladies who’re going to agree that Amanda did what she needed to do, however on the backside of it, it’s mistaken.
And if Amanda wasn’t keen to surrender her job, the viewers would have misplaced respect for her. We’d not should be on Amanda’s facet. We wanted to see her come round and go, “Okay, I did what I did… and I’ll pay for it now.”
And one option to pay for it’s that Religion appears actually dissatisfied in her. What do you suppose it’s gonna take for her to achieve Religion’s admiration and belief?
I don’t suppose she’s gonna acquire again Religion’s belief. You may’t… As soon as the innocence is misplaced, when you lose your virginity, you may’t return. That turns into a second, like an emotional — she’s misplaced. There’s an innocence that’s been lifted, a filter. She had Amanda on a pedestal, you understand what I imply? “My mama was defective, however at the very least there’s Amanda.” And he or she’s going, “Oh wow, Amanda’s human, too.” … That’s her character, however I believe that sends Religion on a complete different trajectory.
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I wish to discuss a bit of bit in regards to the vogue. When Amanda placed on that costume, it was nearly like a go well with of armor. Do you are feeling that means about how she connects to her clothes? It’s all the time very intentional.
In some methods, in a single world, the clothes is the character, proper? There’s one thing in regards to the clothes, the best way she clothes that informs who this character is a lot for me in a means that I can’t actually describe… In that individual episode, in that individual scene, sure, completely — due to what she’s doing. However I additionally consider that, I imply, is it a go well with of armor? Is it like a software for clothes? We’re all speaking with how we determine to point out up, proper? And he or she’s very conscious of that. She’s very conscious of that.
Within the final scene, it looks as if Amanda needs to say one thing to Will. What do you suppose she needs to say, and why did that telephone name from his nephew cease her from speaking to him?
As a result of she knew he was in a second. He’s received some issues occurring that she is aware of nothing about. And it’s additionally his father… It’s like, “Oh, you didn’t inform me this.” And in addition, simply as they’re going [together], Will helped. A special a part of Will opened as much as Amanda on this episode. On the finish, he’s going, “You don’t have to do that.” He’s now displaying his affection for Amanda for the primary time, and on the finish, that’s all she’s received to carry on to… She’s tripped up, she’s a bit of battered on the finish of this, however you understand what? She’s a bit of nearer to Will. He comforted her, proper? And, “Who was… now you bought one other household relationship?” So Amanda’s bowled over, she sees it as a risk. That is the place Amanda feels susceptible. She’s weak. It’s understanding easy methods to deal with these emotions… And in addition she has no management, and he or she’s caught.
