Walker Independence is coming our way this week – Thursday, October 6 – and Walker mothership series star Jared Padalecki – who also is an EP on Walker – is an Executive Producer for the upcoming Western-themed prequel developed by Seamus Fahey and Anna Fricke. Recently, the cast and producers participated in a virtual press Q&A where Padalecki discussed what it was about Walker Independence that excited him the most.
“What I’m excited about [is] the interplay between the cast, for sure,” Padalecki said. “The storylines are incredible. As a lot of [people] know already, TV is a giant machine. Making a TV episode is hundreds of people over weeks and/or months, long days and long nights, to bring you 42 minutes every week, if we can. And so, sometimes you have to just have somebody there to get the job done. You know, somebody who might go, ‘they went that way’.”
“Here on this show, every single character could have their own show,” he continued. No, one’s there just to progress the storyline. They’re all exciting, and intriguing, and their interplay with each other is different. They’re not just this person every single time. If they’re talking to this character from the town, they have this relationship, and then it’s very obvious what the relationship is with that person, and so on, and so forth. I see the scripts, obviously, before they get filmed, but getting to watch some dailies and some of the earlier cuts of the episodes, I’ve been like, ‘I didn’t think of that! Like how did they figure that out? Bravo all around, from top to bottom.”
You can read more about Walker Independence and see photos from upcoming episodes here!
