When Alan Ritchson first found out he landed the lead role in a Jack Reacher TV series, he was literally speechless. He startled his wife, who was napping, but when she awoke he couldn’t form the words to tell her the good news. “Are the kids okay?” she asked. Ritchson nodded, and she then immediately knew what had him so stunned. “Reacher?!” she asked, and Ritchson finally exhaled.

“’Reacher said nothing’ has been true for me,” Ritchson told TheWrap during a recent interview about his audition process and work on the series, evoking a famous line from the Lee Child book series. The “Titans” actor was “clamoring for a shot” at the title role in Amazon Prime Video’s TV series adaptation of the popular books, but during the first round of casting, he was passed over. “To my defense, the scenes were very different,” Ritchson said of the initial audition process. “We were auditioning with a scene where Reacher doesn’t say anything, so it was very tough to play.”

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