I met Phil on the “APB” set, so not long after I got the job. Also, you can follow MacPherson’s preparations for “Strike Back” on his Instagram.Ĭongratulations on “Strike Back.” Very excited for you.ĭid you get to see Philip Winchester while you were filming “APB” in Chicago? Read Part 1 in which MacPherson talks about “APB” and his past roles. MacPherson and I talked more about the role, meeting Winchester and what he has been doing to prepare. “Make no mistake,” he said, “when the camera rolls, I will be ready.” But after meeting Winchester in January while both were filming in Chicago, he’s eager to put in the hours. MacPherson knows he and the new cast have a lot of work to do before filming begins sometime in April. We’re not getting Scott and Stonebridge lite, we’re getting a new set of characters who will play in the same world but do things their own way.” “Dan and the new team are going to do that. “I consciously looked to separate the new team from old with a different vibe and energy,” Bassett added. Finally, Sumarwata portrays Gracie Novin, a blunt techie who is the heart and soul of the team. McKee stars as Natalie Roberts, a military brat and expert psychological profiler. He’s driven by a desire to avenge the team he’s lost. Brown plays Daniel “Mac” Macallister, who is as easygoing as he is deadly. MacPherson portrays loner Samuel Wyatt, a witty barroom philosopher reluctant to work with the restored Section 20. “Quite apart from the fact that he’s one tough guy, with all his Ironman competitions, he’s got a humanity and wit about him that just punched through.” “I just had a feeling he’d be right,” Bassett wrote. MacPherson impressed Bassett from the first audition tape the director saw. Nothing is ever straightforward for Section 20. As the operatives hunt him, they uncover a conspiracy that could change modern warfare. In the new season, the discredited Section program is revived in order to find a notorious terrorist who has escaped incarceration.
“They were lightning in a bottle together and I don’t want to do anything to undermine that fantastic legacy.”īassett is among many of the original team working on the new season, which comes from Cinemax, UK collaborator Sky and production company Left Bank Pictures. “No one can replay Phil and Sully,” he wrote in an email. He promises the fifth season will honor all the past seasons. Bassett, who directed, produced and helped write many of their episodes, returns for the new iteration. The easy chemistry between Winchester and Stapleton largely contributed to the success of “Strike Back,” along with their mastery of military skills and physicality. They played operatives Stonebridge and Scott, who worked for the fictional Section 20 counterintelligence unit that took on high-risk operations around the world. MacPherson has big shoes to fill after Philip Winchester and Sullivan Stapleton led the show for four seasons on Cinemax after the initial British season. “My wife hates me,” he joked, “but it’s all going to pay off.” His “Strike Back” prep seems to be changing his and wife Zoe Ventoura’s routine. The veteran Ironman triathlete also trains in the gym twice a day and is devouring a special diet. He even celebrated Australia Day with his Aussie co-star, Sumarwata, with weapons training at a gun range run by Taran Tactical Innovations, a company that works with Hollywood productions on weapons handling. He’s been doing shooting drills at Mike Raahauge Shooting Enterprises. Just weeks after they were cast, MacPherson hosted British actor Brown in his California home so the actors could get to know each other. MacPherson, currently appearing in “APB” on Fox and former star of MTV’s “The Shannara Chronicles,” joins Warren Brown, Alin Sumarwata and Roxanne McKee in the series’ fifth Cinemax season.
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Daniel MacPherson didn’t waste any time preparing for his next role-as a counterterrorism operative in the upcoming revival of the military action series Strike Back.
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