Warning: The following accommodates spoilers from Monday’s Quantum Leap premiere.
In Quantum Leap‘s premiere episode, Ben Song (played by Raymond Lee) made an unauthorized leap and wound up in the body of a would-be diamond thief in 1985. The details of why he jumped remain unclear, but we now know that Al’s daughter Janice Calavicci is one way or the other concerned.
At the tip of the hour, Herbert “Magic” Williams (Ernie Hudson) revealed that Janice wished to observe in her father’s footsteps and participate within the new Quantum Leap challenge. However, the Department of Defense denied her over considerations about her emotional ties to Al (performed within the unique collection by Dean Stockwell), who died final 12 months, and Sam (Scott Bakula), who by no means made it again dwelling. On the evening of Ben’s soar, Janice despatched Ben pressing messages to take action now since they had been “running out of time.”
According to showrunner Martin Gero, we’re solely simply getting began with Janice. “The Calaviccis play a huge part of Season 1,” he tells TVLine. “Georgina Reilly, who plays Janice, will recur heavily on the show.”
NBC’s new tackle Quantum Leap was being developed whereas Stockwell was nonetheless alive, and producers at all times knew the Calavicci household could be a significant a part of the story. But after Stockwell’s dying in November 2021, the present’s dealing with of Al’s character advanced.
(*1*)“The dream was always to potentially have Dean play a small role on the show,” Gero shares. “But when he passed, it was important for us to maintain the legacy of that character in the show in a real and profound way.”
Read on for extra tidbits from showrunner Martin Gero and stars Raymond Lee and Ernie Hudson.
Gero on Quantum Leap’s ties to the unique collection: “The show is its own thing, but we have this really beautiful connection to the past that is informing everything that we’re doing, and in a way that I think will reward viewers of the old show but not alienate new viewers who maybe haven’t seen all 90-plus episodes of Quantum Leap. It’s a really cool story, and it’s going to some really awesome places, and I can’t wait for you all to see some more of Georgina as Janice Calavicci.”
Lee on Addison telling Ben, who misplaced his reminiscence, that she was initially meant to leap and Ben was speculated to be her hologram: “It’s up to Addison to reveal what she can reveal because there are some things better left unsaid for Ben’s own benefit and health and well-being. She might know a reason why he would [make an unauthorized jump], but it might not be OK for her to tell me. But there’s so much to uncover there, so much drama.”
Hudson on his costar Lee: “He’s someone that you can relate to. Scott Bakula, what I loved about [him in the original], he was so funny and goofy and charming, but he was that guy you liked. He’d find himself in these situations, but it was hard not to feel for him, and I think Raymond has a lot of that as well.”
Gero on together with Easter eggs all through the collection: “We’re trying to have a couple every [episode], and there’s some iconic props that eventually will make its way back into the canon of this show as well. This show is being made by fans of the original show, and it’s also being made by the people that made the original show, so that connection to the old show is very palpable.”
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