I’ve read the books now and Reacher has some big shoes to fill, metaphorically speaking. The closer I got to that, the more familiar I became with the Reacher stuff. But when they came back around, they picked a few tapes that they’d seen already, and I was one of them, so they wanted me to come back and try again, and it worked out.
“There was a shake-up with who was casting, so they started again from scratch, and I’d already been passed on, as had everybody who did an audition.
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I was like, ‘Well, they wanna read me, but I know they’re gonna find someone like Dwayne Johnson, who’s a huge dude.’ I auditioned for the part and it was good, it was just that my take on it was a little different than what they had in mind, at the time.”īut Ritchson got a second shot when there was a behind-the-scenes change-up on the Jack Reacher TV series: After working with Tom Cruise and a lot of fans being upset that he didn’t really have the physicality, as great as he was in the role, they really wanted to get that right. I’m not exactly six foot five and I’m not exactly 250, and I had heard that they were being very specific with their physical demands. “It’s funny, I actually didn’t get the role at first.
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RELATED: 'Jack Reacher' Getting Rebooted as a TV Series Lee Child Says Tom Cruise Was Too ShortĬollider’s own Christina Radish spoke with Ritchson about his new film Dark Web: Cicada 3301 (which he directed and co-wrote), and during their conversation Ritchson talked about the intense audition process for the Jack Reacher TV show and how he originally didn’t get the role: So when it came time to cast the new Jack Reacher, Ritchson – whose credits range from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies to the DC Universe series Titans – auditioned but didn’t feel too confident. When it was first announced that a Jack Reacher TV series was being made, Child admitted that while he liked Cruise, he ultimately agreed with fans that he was wrong for the lead role – Cruise is 5’7” whereas Reacher is described as being 6’5”. A sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, was produced with a different director, but after that was released and Cruise got busy with Mission: Impossible, the producers decided it was time to reboot the franchise all over again - this time on the small screen. Child’s books were first adapted by Christopher McQuarrie on the big screen with Tom Cruise in the lead role, but despite the fact that 2012’s Jack Reacher absolutely rules, some fans were displeased with Cruise’s physical differences from the book’s Jack Reacher. He was a member of the Fine Arts division's Soundsations and Madrigal Singers.Author Lee Child’s beloved book series following the character of Jack Reacher has an absolutely rabid fan-base, which explains why actor Alan Ritchson – who is the new Jack Reacher for the upcoming Amazon series - was pessimistic about his chances of landing the lead role. From 1999 to 2003, he attended as a dual-enrollment student and graduated with an Associate of Arts degree at Okaloosa Walton Community College, now Northwest Florida State College.
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In a 2013 interview with Indonesian magazine Da Man, he stated that he once obtained a full music scholarship. He attended Niceville High School and graduated in 2000. At age 10, Ritchson's family settled in Niceville, Florida.
During his childhood, his family moved to Rantoul, Illinois. He is the second of three boys and is a father to three boys himself. Ritchson was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the son of Vickie (born June 21, 1958), high school teacher and David Ritchson (born June 5, 1956), a retired U.S.
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