This Tuesday in FBI‘s Season 5 premiere (CBS, 8/7), a sting being run by the group threatens to explode in a most sudden manner, when the bomb that an undercover OA is about to purchase goes lacking.
TVLine invited Zeeko Zaki to preview the brand new season forward, together with OA’s shedding of his “supersuit,” some private drama for Jubal, and Maggie’s eventual return. Plus, how that postponed Season 4 finale will (ultimately) shake issues up….
TVLINE | Inform us what the group is coping with as Season 5 opens….
You recognize, the group is in a very good place. We all the time have the chance to do actually massive premiere episodes, and our producing director, Alex Chapple, actually will get to come back out of the gates heavy. It was our alternative to sort of present the well being of the collection, and this an attention-grabbing one as a result of we do have our Season 6 pick-up, so the top of the day, we’re hoping to remain incomes that as we transfer ahead. Nevertheless it’s a very massive episode. It’s received some actually great things from all of the solid that we’re actually enthusiastic about.
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It additionally has fairly the undercover search for OA.
It does! It does. It was actually, actually enjoyable.
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Trying only a bit nerdy!
[Laughs] Precisely. Precisely. The glasses had been actually enjoyable, filming with that [prop]. I take into consideration how Meryl Streep makes use of her glasses in each scene she does, so it was a enjoyable time to make use of a brand new prop. Additionally, OA has all the time been suited up for 4 years — it’s sort of turn out to be my “supersuit,” when the tie goes on and the jacket — so it’s attention-grabbing to do it a little bit dressed down.
TVLINE | Jubal (Jeremy Sisto) goes by way of some private issues within the premiere. Is that something the group goes to begin to choose up on?
Completely. I feel it’s actually, very nice to have Jubal’s character be a father determine to the brokers after which additionally to get to play that storyline, exterior of labor with a household along with his child. It reveals all of the totally different realities of the FBI. Now we have brokers that don’t have households, who can go conceal underwater for 10 days to resolve against the law, after which we now have those that do [have a family]. It’s all a part of it.
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I’m wanting on the Episode 2 photographs, and OA is partnered with Wallace (Katherine Renee Turner) for a bit. Is it enjoyable to discover the totally different dynamics between every of the characters?
Oh, completely. There’s a personality in every of ourselves, after which there’s a personality after we get mixed with one other agent, and you’ve got that chemistry…. It’s simply so enjoyable as a result of every actor works 10 months a 12 months on their character, and it is a actually good strategy to sort of preserve it contemporary. It offers us the chance to work off of all these nice actors that we’ve been so fortunate to have on our group.
TVLINE | Did the unique finale for Season 4 — which received postponed (within the wake of a college taking pictures) — tee up issues which is able to now come up, ultimately, at a later level?
On the finish of the day, I’m sort of on the identical facet because the viewers with that. I’m excited to see what occurs with it as properly. We normally have start-to-finish storylines, and having this episode nonetheless “on the market” is sort of attention-grabbing. I’m excited to see the place we go together with it as properly.
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I do know Missy Peregrym will not be displaying up for a bit, however are we going to get any updates or mentions of Maggie continuing her on-camera return?
Her power is all the time with us, however there may be nothing particular that I can consider proper now…. However that’s sort of good, as a result of on the finish of the day, when in just a few years you binge this present, her character will simply be out “from lunch to dinner,” for only a few hours.
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Do you foresee OA being a bit protecting of Maggie when she returns, given all she’s been by way of?
Completely. Completely. The “protecting” factor, I feel I’ve gotten to sort of scatter it over the previous few episodes, with all of the totally different companions and issues like that. On the finish of the day, a number of issues correlate with the true world. Now we have an extended season forward, with the protectiveness of my character and her character….
TVLINE | That was fairly episode, fairly the crucible they went by way of collectively for these couple of minutes.
It was, it was…. That was simply such a deal with.
TVLINE | Is there any early-season episode you’re particularly enthusiastic about?
I’m actually enthusiastic about Episode 3, so keep tuned. I get to step out of my consolation zone, and getting to try this on the present is all the time very thrilling.
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