Rick Riordan is on board the brand new collection as an govt producer, and all through the present’s casting course of, he stored followers up to date and generally was the primary to interrupt the information about stars and younger actors becoming a member of the forged. In Lance Reddick’s case, the writer wrote a weblog put up detailing how good he thinks the actor is for the half and praised Reddick for bringing to the position “a lot gravitas he may pull the planets out of alignment.” It is a sentiment Riordan says he shared with Reddick when he first met him. The writer additionally cites his favourite works of the performer’s, together with “The Wire,” “Regulation & Order,” “John Wick,” and the Prime Video collection “Bosch,” the place the actor performed Chief Irving, Riordan’s favourite Reddick position.

Riordan calls Reddick’s “Bosch” character the “immovable object” that meets Titus Welliver’s “unstoppable power,” and his reward does not cease there. He additionally writes that “Lance is the proper actor to channel [Zeus’] persona,” declaring that Reddick “initiatives an aura of authority and energy that makes him good for the king of Olympus.” It is true that, amongst his many strengths, Reddick was one of many nice “I am-not-mad-just-disappointed” actors, a person who may talk a dozen shades of anticipating higher from his fictional colleagues when enjoying the superior officer to rogue cops or FBI brokers. He turned procedural-like components into an artwork kind, layering in not simply level-headed frustration, but additionally a way of assist — an unstated however palpable information that McNulty (Dominic West) or Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) may do higher and will do higher.