Everything Michael Cudlitz could’ve wanted to know about Officer John Cooper, his character on the critically acclaimed cop drama, was right there in the pilot, he recalls.

“The damaged guy, the pain pills, the way he was on the force, the fact that he happened to be gay, which is very briefly touched on in the very, very last scene.”




Cudlitz adds that executive producer Chris Chulack cut a much longer version of the pilot — “that’s amazing and had so much wonderful silence and pacing” — but it never saw the light of day and had to be trimmed to the network-standard 42 minutes.”

Regarding an eventual revival? “We loved it, the fans loved it, and we would all go back to do one-offs or a limited run series of that show in a heartbeat,” Cudlitz says.

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