Robbie Thorne is doing his easiest now not to disappoint, properly, everybody. There are his football teammates, his theater troop, and the person we met on this week’s episode of Rise, Detrell (Price Tallman), Robbie’s father. In tonight’s episode, viewers got a witness at Robbie’s dwelling existence when a occasion at his popularity turned real into a jock vs. theater minute one showdown. And naturally, Robbie became as soon as caught within the center.
EW hopped on the phone with Damon J. Gillespie to discuss about the episode and what comes next (especially now that Robbie and Lilette kissed!)…
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This week we got to undercover agent somewhat of Robbie’s dwelling existence. What did that speak you about him as a personality?
DAMON J. GILLESPIE: After we got to this episode, I talked to [showrunner] Jason [Katims]. I became as soon as love, “Would Robbie be the form of person to permit bullying in his dwelling? Would he turn his motivate on the troop? Jason and I talked and I acknowledged, “I don’t mediate he’s that person.” I don’t mediate he can prefer care of his mom daily in a nursing dwelling and factual be love, “Oh sorry, these are my guys.” We had discussed that and I mediate this became as soon as the episode where we in actual fact get to undercover agent that. I came across that he’s a real person at coronary heart.
We also got to undercover agent his relationship along with his father, which gave us more insight into obvious picks he’s made.
You get to undercover agent somewhat bit more of Robbie and Detrell’s relationship, but we also undercover agent that Detrell’s now not a jerk. He’s searching to enact what’s easiest for Robbie. He knows he can’t stop him from doing the play so the next easiest declare he can enact is ride to Lilette and be love, “We are able to’t include him be distracted.” There’s a quantity of power from his dad but it doesn’t finally portion him. He gets it. It’s a distinct form of power than, “You gotta enact real at football, son!” It’s love, “Bag your relaxing in highschool but form determined you know exactly what you’re going for and what we’ve worked so laborious for.”
I loved how the pilot space up Robbie’s central fight of football versus drama, and this episode literally puts it in his residing room.
Precisely. It’s love, it’s wrong ample that he’s struggling to search out out easy enact theater, but he factual lost the sport and then on top of that it’s love, right here’s a really best representation of what I include to fight through! Let’s tackle this elegant now! After all the pieces that’s going on, why don’t we keep that elegant in entrance of my face?! [Laughs]
And he does get overwhelmed, but by the stop of the episode, he’s apologizing to Lilette…
You get to undercover agent that he finally is a real person. We undercover agent that elegant earlier to the sport begins when he tells Lilette he broke issues off with Stephanie. Because he finally likes Lilette. And then elegant after he form of snapped at Lilette for a 2d, he’s love, “No that’s now not elegant, I got to form issues elegant.” You’ll initiate to undercover agent that within the course of the season to: He doesn’t take to upset other folks and let them down. He’s going to enact all the pieces in his energy to be obvious doesn’t happen.
Plus he got his first kiss with Lilette!
That’s finally thrilling because other folks were love: The build enact they stand? What’s going on with Robbie and Lilette? Are they together? Are they now not? What’s going on? It’s love, all elegant, we’ll allow you to know exactly where we are.
What became as soon as it take to movie that football recreation?
Those were prolonged days. Most of that is shot at night so we don’t get to space except about three:30 p.m. It’s about half and half where it’s me and my stunt double. I got on the self-discipline with the blokes and we began throwing round and the stunt coordinator goes, “You include a terribly real arm.” I became as soon as love, “Yeah I know, let me enact my stunts!” [Laughs] But we had a blast with it. We were all available playing football at the least except about 2 or three within the morning. It became as soon as a prolonged night but it became as soon as so noteworthy relaxing. It became as soon as also I mediate 800 background [actors] there for the team scenes. There’s nothing somewhat as chilly as having 800 other folks yowl for you as you hunch onto the self-discipline. That became as soon as barely faithful.
Having a undercover agent ahead, is there an episode or sage you’re most livid for followers to undercover agent?
I’m livid for of us to undercover agent somewhat bit more of what Michael is ready. With Michael being transgender it’s a mode of issues where we’re vivid a gentle-weight on that sage, which is de facto chilly, and Ellie [Desautels], who plays Michael amazingly, has worked with Jason [Katims] and GLAAD to be obvious this became as soon as urged in a extraordinarily real and obvious gentle. I’m very livid for of us to undercover agent that. But my favorite episode is the finale. After we got the finale script, a quantity of us would per chance now not keep it down. We didn’t circulation for love an hour and a half reading the finale, so I’m very livid to listen to everybody’s reactions for the season.
Rise airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.
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