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Hi,

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my name's Ramon Rodriguez from ABC's
Will Trent and I'm here with the AV Club.

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The first thing I did really obviously
I got into the script and I read the

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books. I had to educate myself on these,
uh, novels that Karen Slaughter wrote.

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I hadn't read him yet. Um,

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and then once I really started sort of
getting into the character and trying to

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figure him out and,
and crack a way in, uh,

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the dialect was sort of one of the first
things I really went after where he's

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someone that's from Atlanta, grew up
there and I'm a New Yorker, Puerto Rican.

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I wanted him to sound like he was
someone from that environment.

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And so I was fortunate to find an amazing
dialect coach and we put in a lot of

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work, um, to try to dial
in the specificity of the
sound of this character.

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And that was a great way in,
it helped me out a lot. Uh,

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it also helped me sort of differentiate
from me and this character. And then,

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um, you know, the suit, the three
piece suit helps as well. And uh, yeah,

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so there was a lot of time spent on that.
And also educating myself on dyslexia,

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which I wasn't, you know, fully, I
didn't understand it fully and, you know,

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got to talk to two doctors about it and
just understand how varied it is and

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how, um, how it affects
everyone very differently.

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And so we wanted to be really specific
with the show on how we represent that.

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We don't know yet if Will Trent
is going for season two, um,

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but if it were to go, I think, you know,

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one of the things that we all really
enjoy watching is these emotional sort of

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arcs that these characters
are going through.

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So I'm hoping we get to go
deeper into Will's story, um,

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and maybe find something that we can hook
into an anchor throughout the season.

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Uh, and also elongate some of these
cases, you know, uh, even more.

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Cuz that seems to be something that
people are responding to where we get to

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maybe have a case go for three episodes.
Um, so that's been a lot of fun.

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I'm hoping we get to do
more of that. I mean,

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if they're brought Game of Thrones
back or if they did more of that,

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I'd love to be in that
world. That's just fun. Um,

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that would be awesome to be able to get
into that. Um, yeah, I would say that,

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I would say Game of Thrones if
they brought that show back.

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I don't know if they ever will or
if it has another season or what.