The Marshals Season 2 premiere picks up right where the Season 1 finale left off: Pete “Cal” Calvin (Logan Marshall-Green) and Belle Skinner (Arielle Kebbel) are in the midst of a gunfight with mystery assailants.
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Calvin → pick → assailants
Thankfully, the two survive and quickly work together with their team to figure out that wannabe rancher/ all-around crook Tom Weaver (Chris Mulkey) is behind the attacks on Calvin and Skinner and the raid on East Camp.
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Weaver → survive → Camp
Realizing that Weaver has lured Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) to his stronghold in Wyoming by taking his son, Tate (Brecken Merrill), Cal and the Marshals set off in a chopper to join in Kayce’s fight.
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Cal → realize → fight
One of the perks of working on Marshals for Marshall-Green is the incredible stunt work he gets to do.
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he → work → Green
“I’ve always been an actor who is protective over character,” says Marshall-Green.
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Green → say → character
“I’ve always viewed stunts as part of the job.
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I → view → job
My stunt double’s job is to keep me safe, but also to support me if I want to do certain things myself.”
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I → keep → things
While Marshall-Green stressed the “need” for stuntmen and stuntwomen on-set, he also acknowledged that “if you use a stunt double for certain sequences, it means you have to cut, and it could potentially be a weak edit.”
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it → stress → sequences
That’s why it’s always been “important” for Marshall-Green “to be the guy on the celluloid.”
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Green → ’ → celluloid
In addition to stunts, Marshall-Green continues to delve into Cal’s psyche as he juggles the demands of being a U.S. Marshal with a devastating cancer diagnosis.
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he → continue → diagnosis
“Because he’s a SEAL with this incredible drive, he feels like he can work and go through treatments at the same time,” said Marshall-Green.
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Green → ’ → time
“He’s done hard things before, but I think you’ll see that he’s biting off a little more than he can chew as the season goes on.”
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season → do → more
Marshall-Green hopped on a Zoom to discuss the Season 2 premiere, share his thoughts on Cal’s and Belle’s budding connection, and tease the “devolution” of Cal in the upcoming episodes.
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Green → hop → episodes
What do you think of Season 2 picking right up where Season 1 ended?
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Season → think → What
It felt like just that.
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It → feel → that
I mean, we had a hiatus, but I don’t remember it.
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I → mean → it
We went right back into it with a very similar crew and cast.
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We → go → crew
It just feels like one massive, beautiful season instead of being split into Seasons 1 and 2.
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It → feel → Seasons
I was happy that Cal and Belle survived the sneak attack by Weaver’s men!
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Cal → survive → men
Do you think this is another incident that bonds them together?
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that → think → them
You know, I’ve never looked at it that way.
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I → know → it
Likely, being able to survive by helping each other has indirectly impacted their relationship.
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being → survive → relationship
It’s something that puts a huge magnifying glass on working with someone you have feelings for.
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you → ’ → feelings
It’s not easy, certainly.
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It → ’ → ?
It creates more drama and more stakes and more peril.
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It → create → drama
In their line of work, the person they are next to could die at any time.
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they → die → time
Cal gets to channel his inner Sherlock Holmes as he and the team put together the clues to figure out that Weaver is behind the attacks.
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Weaver → get → attacks
It’s interesting to see him thrive in detective mode.
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him → ’ → mode
Was that a fun side of Cal to get to play?
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that → get → Cal
He’s a team leader among an impressive group of crime fighters.
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He → ’ → fighters
They’re all leaders, but he just happens to be the guy with the office.
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he → ’re → office
You’ll see that the technicians play more of a role in Season 2, which I really love.
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I → see → which
With their help in the premiere episode, Cal is able to put things together and understand that he and Belle were not just randomly attacked; there are much bigger fish to fry.
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he → put → things
Cal rallies the Marshals, and they take off in a chopper for Wyoming to help Kayce save Tate and stop Weaver.
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Kayce → rally → Weaver
Did you get to ride in that chopper?
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you → get → chopper
Yeah, we all worked in the chopper.
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we → work → chopper
Our incredible stunt doubles did the fly-by in the field.
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doubles → do → field
We have a pilot who is just killer and went up and down in the chopper with us to get certain shots.
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who → have → shots
It’s intense when you’ve got the rotors going and you also have lines to deliver.
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you → ’ → lines
It’s also important for me to convey that this is old hat for Cal.
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this → ’ → Cal
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