JamesG
08-08-2017, 08:12 PM
Riggs' Dad to be Played by "CSI: Miami" Vet Rex Linn
by Matt Webb Mitovich
August 8, 2017
"Lethal Weapon" viewers will get some insight into what makes Martin Riggs tick when "CSI: Miami" vet Rex Linn plays the off-kilter cop’s father in Season 2.
Appearing across multiple episodes in Texas flashbacks alongside a tweenage Martin, the father/son relationship will inform Riggs’ current-day issues, which are not going to be entirely resolved by the resolution of his wife’s death.
"Lethal Weapon" showrunner Matt Miller tells TVLine that John Lithgow, with whom he worked on Season 1 of NBC’s "Trial & Error", “personally called me and said, ‘If you don’t hire Rex Linn, you’re crazy!'” (The actors had worked together on the 1993 thriller Cliffhanger.)
“He is wonderful,” Miller says of Linn’s performance.
http://tvline.com/2017/08/08/lethal-weapon-season-2-riggs-dad-cast-rex-linn/
by Matt Webb Mitovich
August 8, 2017
"Lethal Weapon" viewers will get some insight into what makes Martin Riggs tick when "CSI: Miami" vet Rex Linn plays the off-kilter cop’s father in Season 2.
Appearing across multiple episodes in Texas flashbacks alongside a tweenage Martin, the father/son relationship will inform Riggs’ current-day issues, which are not going to be entirely resolved by the resolution of his wife’s death.
"Lethal Weapon" showrunner Matt Miller tells TVLine that John Lithgow, with whom he worked on Season 1 of NBC’s "Trial & Error", “personally called me and said, ‘If you don’t hire Rex Linn, you’re crazy!'” (The actors had worked together on the 1993 thriller Cliffhanger.)
“He is wonderful,” Miller says of Linn’s performance.
http://tvline.com/2017/08/08/lethal-weapon-season-2-riggs-dad-cast-rex-linn/