Prime Video is wasting no time with Reacher, its surprise success in 2022 and now its audience at the box office. Although Season 3 is already in production, we learn that a new main character – and one even tougher than Jack Reacher – will be an integral part of the story.
Alan Ritchson – who is 1.92m tall – will have to step up his training to face the Colossus, who will play his nemesis in Season 3. The new season of Reacher should adapt to the novel. never forgiveReleased in 2003, in which the character infiltrates the entourage of the wealthy and paranoid Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall) during an attempt to kidnap his son.
A former military police major who travels the United States and helps people he meets, he will tackle the character Paul, who is well known to fans of Lee Child’s novels. According to CinemaBlendDutch actor Olivier Richters was chosen for the role.
Who is Olivier Richters?
In never forgivePaul is a bodybuilder who is one of Zachary Beck’s bodyguards. Olivier Richters, in addition to being an actor, is a bodybuilder in real life and is known as the “Dutch Giant” because of his enormous size: 2 meters 20! The size is impressive even for someone like Alan Ritchson, who is already impressive.
Before joining the cast of Reacher, Olivier Richters had already put his impressive size and muscle mass to good use on screen. After a few roles in European projects at the beginning of his career, he mostly played small roles in English as a secondary or even a third antagonist in genre films, where he was mostly there to act as the main obstacle to the heroes.
He notably played an angry warehouse worker in the horror film Ravers in 2018 and one of the fighters in the action film London Fight Club in 2020. She was also seen playing Ursa Major (Grande ourse in French) in Black Widow. He is briefly seen arm-wrestling Red Warden, David Harbour’s character, in Seventh Circle Prison.
He also played the role of the massive machine butter keeper in Matthew Vaughn’s action film The King’s Man (2021) and as Hawk, Jürgen Voller’s landlord, in Indiana Jones and the Clock of Fate.
Reacher is his most important role to date. It remains to be seen how much Paul will be around next season. He is the main character of the book, so it is likely that he will appear in at least a few episodes.
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