What a trip it’s been for ol’ Dan Brady.
The fourth season of Netflix’s Virgin River kicked off with Benjamin Hollingsworth‘s character newly behind bars for taking pictures Jack means again within the Season 2 finale. (You already know, in case you forgot how slowly time progresses on this city.) And Brady’s days within the jail yard, although restricted, had been definitely memorable.
“That was undoubtedly a primary for me,” Hollingsworth tells TVLine of getting shanked by a fellow prisoner. “I set to work on that with the stunt coordinator, which was a variety of enjoyable. We got here up with type of a dance the place you hopefully didn’t see the shank coming.”
It was quickly revealed that Vince, not Brady, was the precise shooter, although Hollingsworth by no means doubted his character for a second.
“I knew Brady didn’t do it,” he says. “For one factor, that’s not the character I’ve been taking part in, however I additionally spoke with the [previous] showrunner. Making Brady a pink herring was all the time a part of the plan, however we needed the viewers to be like, ‘No, it may possibly’t be him! We simply began to love him!’”
Talking of beginning to like Brady, Hollingsworth notes that his character’s romance with Brie is essentially accountable for his private development. “Love will try this to you,” he says. “It can make you discover areas of life and of your self that you just won’t have in any other case, and it modifications you as an individual.”
In truth, Hollingsworth’s favourite second of Season 4 was when Brady entered the room to search out Brie damaged down and crying. As he remembers, “She was confronting the trauma of her previous relationship with Dom, and we get to see Brady being empathetic and weak along with her. He opens as much as her, and he additionally listens. This isn’t one thing we frequently get to see from him.”
However jail shankings and false accusations are solely the start. Hollingsworth teases that Season 5, which is at present filming in Vancouver, will throw much more “surprising” curveballs on the residents of Virgin River — particularly with the nefarious Melissa Montgomery on the scene.
“[Fear] is a wholesome emotion to have in the case of her,” Hollingsworth says of Melissa. “She’s clearly as much as no good, and the truth that she’s having dinner with Jack and Mel on the finish is regarding.”
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