‘Leverage: Redemption’: Christian Kane & Dean Devlin on Eliot Feeling He Should Take Hits for Team
Spoiler Alert
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Leverage: Redemption Season 3 premiere, “The Weekend in Paris Job.”]
If you ask hitter Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane), the hits he takes is just part of the job, as he says in the Leverage: Redemption Season 3 premiere.
The season begins with the crew — Eliot, grifter Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman), thief Parker (Beth Riesgraf), and hacker Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge) — mid-con in France when they have to flee. In the process, Eliot’s arm is slashed with a knife. Then, while trying to lie low, they end up in the middle of another con, and Parker suggests that Hardison, feeling like he’s not sure about how they crime anymore, give Eliot’s usual role a try, especially since the hitter’s lost a lot of blood and his left arm isn’t working. Parker even cuffs Eliot to a table, but he ends up freeing himself to help Hardison fight a guard.
Once back in New Orleans, Hardison asks how Eliot’s doing; his arm’s in a sling. It’s part of the job, Eliot says. But Hardison tells him he doesn’t like watching someone he cares about take punches for him; maybe he doesn’t want to do a job that involves him watching Eliot get hurt all the time. So what’s it going to take for Eliot to stop feeling like he should just take all the hits?
“I think it depends on the person, and that was one of my favorite lines of the season was when he said that, because it’s like if he’d have said anything else in a different way, I don’t think Eliot would’ve taken him seriously, but he did take that seriously, you know what I mean?” Kane, who has said that his character can never be redeemed, tells TV Insider. “You can see him take it seriously. And I tried to do that as best I could. I think that as long as these people are his family, which they are, until they find themselves, he’s still going to do it no matter what. I think Eliot goes down taking punches. I don’t think he ever stops.”
Adds executive producer Dean Devlin, “I don’t know if he ever will. That’s one of the interesting things about his character as opposed to everyone else. His growth was in the understanding of how bad the terrible things are that he had done in his past. And the deeper his understanding is of that, the more he’s absolutely convinced that he’s not redeemable. And because he’s not redeemable, he has to spend every single day working for his repentance. It’s an interesting character. Where everyone else is arced, he’s literally a missile firing forward.”
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Leverage: Redemption, Thursdays, Prime Video
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The first three episodes that were released are the brilliant mix of mischief, love, comedy, action and family that the team (cast, writers, crew and Mr. Devlin) always deliver. And it is why we, the viewers, flight like hell to keep the Leverage universe alive. It has always given us hope and we need that even more now, given the battles we fight everyday in this world. Thank you to the whole for giving us that hope! Thank you, Mr. Devlin for providing us with multiple series over the many years that have heart, adventure, humor, and empathy! ❤️❤️❤️
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The fans love Eliot and his fights!
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The characters, settings, twisted storylines that lead finally to the intended outcomes, etc, are still grabbing my attention! Love the first 3 episodes!
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I thought the previous season ended with Hardison stuck in space??? Maybe those two astronauts who splashed down from the ISS last month brought him with them?? 🤓
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I love Leverage and am very sorry that it's on Prime Video which I don't have. I guess that I can only hope that at some point it will come on a streaming channel that is accessible to everyone. The second season was on Peacock or FreeVee. I don't remember but I know that it was accessible.
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'Getting hurt all the time'? Eliot hardly ever gets hurt, (aside from bruises) which always seems so unrealistic. When he got slashed by the knife, I was glad, because it added realism to the show. He needs to get hurt MORE for it to be realistic.
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I almost never read articles like this, but I love leverage and was so stoked when it came back. I wanted to read this article to see what's up. That being said, this was almost unreadable! Do editors not exist anymore?
"How they crime anymore" !?!?
I mean yes, its cute slang to use nouns as verbs in speaking, but to the writer of this article: DO BETTER!
That is just one example, you are writing for a living and if AI did it for you its even worse. I know I sound like an insane bitch, but every time I read something as badly written as this, I think of the cumulative degenerative effect it has on our language and standard of writing and learning.
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