Friday’s episode of The Blacklist, “Brothers,” will probably be a singular episode of the NBC crime drama seven seasons within the making. It can present us extra of Particular Agent Donald Ressler’s (Diego Klattenhoff) backstory than we have ever seen earlier than, as he travels to his hometown of Detroit to dig up — actually and figuratively –a painful secret that he and his wayward brother Robby (visitor star Anthony Michael Hall) can not maintain buried. The episode will inform a narrative of loyalty and brotherhood that may present us how Ressler grew to become the person he’s right this moment. It is somewhat bit harking back to the traditional Bruce Springsteen track “Highway Patrolman.” You’ll be able to watch a clip from the episode the place Ressler confronts Robby about being dishonest with their mom above.
Klattenhoff is happy for the #Resslerettes to lastly get an episode completely centered on their favourite agent (the one different Blacklist common to look within the episode is Megan Boone as Liz Eager, and it is the primary and solely episode of the present to this point by which James Spader doesn’t seem in any respect). It has been a very long time within the making, he advised TV Information.
“I heard the rumor about this backstory for years,” Klattenhoff stated. “The Johns (govt producers Jon Bokenkamp and John Eisendrath) had teased me, I wish to say between Seasons 1 and a pair of, with this complete story of why Donald Ressler was the way in which he was.” After which the present went in a distinct route, and the story went away, and he thought it was by no means going to occur. “So it was a little bit of a bummer on that entrance,” he stated. “But it surely was all the time at the back of my thoughts.” Then, six years later, he began listening to on set that folks had learn this nice Ressler-centric episode, and the remaining is historical past. The episode was directed by Mahesh Pailoor, who’s a part of NBC’s Rising Director Program, the community’s annual initiative for ethnically numerous male and gender non-binary administrators.
Klattenhoff had a good time working with Anthony Michael Corridor, a flexible actor who’s been in every little thing from The Breakfast Club to Edward Scissorhands to The Dead Zone. Klattenhoff stated it was “sort of bizarre” to work with Corridor, within the sense that it is a bit surreal to have somebody whose work you have been a fan of because you have been a child play your older brother, and it’s important to beat him up somewhat bit.
“No one’s gonna get a punch in without spending a dime on me, so we simply threw down, and he was recreation,” Klattenhoff stated. “He is an ideal man, enjoyable man, humorous man, and hopefully we’ll see Robby Ressler sooner or later.”
The Blacklist airs Fridays at 8/7c on NBC.
Diego Klattenhoff and Anthony Michael Corridor, The Blacklist