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Reacher S03: Alan Ritchson's Perfect Pre-Naked Scene Workout (VIDEO)
Reacher star Alan Ritchson shared a video of a "quick pre-work workout pump" he recommends going with before YOUR next "naked scenes."
After getting a chance to get to know one of the newest additions to the cast for the third season of Prime Video's Alan Ritchson-starring Reacher, we're going in a different direction with this update because… well, that's what we do. We're always going to give you the stuff you expect – and then we like to bring you some things that "color outside of the lines." With that in mind, Ritchson took to Instagram to share a look at "a quick pre-work workout pump" that we can all do in less than 30 minutes ahead of those "naked scenes" we need to film. That raises two very important questions. First, does that mean we have some "Naked Reacher" action coming our way in Season 3 – or does he mean "naked" like in the image below? Second, I'm a writer, so if I have any naked scenes to film coming up? I get this feeling my pre-nude workout would be my biggest concern.
"Have naked scenes coming up? Here's a quick pre-work workout pump for you. 🤣 30 min or less," Ritchson wrote as the caption to the workout video he shared – including the hashtag #ReacherSeason3 and noting that the music was from Canadian rapper/singer bbno$:
Back in January 2024, we learned that the third season would be tackling Lee Child's seventh novel, 2003's Persuader, with Reacher going undercover to rescue an informant held by a haunting foe from his past. In February, we learned that Anthony Michael Hall & Sonya Cassidy were joining Ritchson and the returning Maria Sten (Frances Neagley) during the currently-in-production season. Hall's Zachary Beck is a formidable & successful businessman – and a widow and single father of a 20-year-old son, Richard – who owns a rug import company that Reacher believes is a cover for some shady dealings. Cassidy's Susan Duffy is an extremely intelligent and tough DEA agent from Boston with a sharp and sarcastic sense of humor.
In March 2024, we learned that Brian Tee had joined the cast in the series regular role of Quinn. A physically imposing and intimidating character, Quinn was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army whom Reacher (Ritchson) investigated a decade prior when he sold military secrets to hostile nations. In addition, Johnny Berchtold was cast in the series regular role of Richard Beck, a sensitive and artistic college student who lost his mother when he was young and is the only son of businessman Zachary Beck (Hall). Five years ago, he was the victim of a traumatic kidnapping that left him mutilated.
Roberto Montesinos' series regular Guillermo Villanueva is a DEA agent on the verge of retirement who has served as the mentor and father figure of Agent Susan Duffy (Cassidy). Paunchy with bad knees and a good-natured sense of humor, Villanueva loves and cares about Duffy – even though they bust each other's chops all the time. Daniel David Stewart's recurring Steven Elliot is a clean-cut rookie DEA agent – a lovable guy who's fresh-faced, new to the job, and still learning. In addition, we learned that "The Dutch Giant" Olivier Richters (Black Widow, Borderlands) has joined the cast as Paulie – one of Beck's bodyguards and 7 feet, 2 inches of trouble for Jack.
"Neagley [returning] was a strategic decision. The one thing you cannot do on screen that you can in a book is have the inside of somebody's head. Reacher thinks a lot, and there are pages and pages of Reacher puzzling things out. You can't write an eight-minute scene with Alan Ritchson sitting there, thinking. So we needed a secondary character to bolster the exposition," Child explained during an interview with Empire Magazine. As for the series jumping around when it comes to the novels that it's choosing for its season's inspiration, Child explains that it makes perfect sense – and fits with the story they're trying to tell on the small screen. "There was no reason to do them in order. We had massive discussions about it. The thinking went like this: 'Killing Floor' introduces Reacher as a person. So, which book shows his professional life and what he did while he was in the Army? The result was 'Bad Luck And Trouble,'" the author added.