'Stumptown' Episode 2: Tookie will soon get a last name, a family and uncover a dark past, teases Adrian Martinez
ABC's 'Stumptown' has managed to amass a huge fan-following just an episode into its premiere, and we can certainly understand why.
Even though the show focuses on a very unlikely hero – a veteran with PTSD, gambling and alcohol problems – it also introduced some amazing characters who add value to her life.
Cobie Smulders' Dex is a brilliant study of the human experience, but without characters like her best friend Grey (Jake Johnson), and her former boss and big brother of sorts Tookie (Adrian Martinez), her story would never be complete.
As Martinez points out, the brilliance of the show is in its writing, and give its characters ample depth. "I read the pilot for 'Stumptown' and I told my agent, 'Listen, any way you can get me in on this, please'," Martinez tells MEA WorldWide (MEAWW).
He adds how, as a movie star who has been in many A-list movies, he felt like he had to actually earn his money. "In film, it's a lot slower and you're a lot more pampered. In TV, you really gotta move and it's just like pages and rewrites and pages and rewrites," he shares.
It seems like he is going to have to get used to this lifestyle, because not only is 'Stumptown' worthy of a multi-season run, but Tookie is going to be a staple on the show.
"I'm really happy to say they have really expanded the role of Tookie. I now have a last name, I just found out I have a family, and I have dark secrets," he says, teasing how there is some really good stuff coming along.
Martinez who is happy about working with "Camryn Manheim, and Michael Ealy, and Cobie, of course," is equally excited to share the expansion of who Tookie is and his value to the show.
On his character's "interesting relationship" with Dex he says, "She used to work for me in the food truck, and she is kind of like the sous chef who was horrible at everything."
"We kind of had the parting of the ways, and she goes to the war and becomes an Iraqi veteran and comes back, and finds herself as a PI because she feels like she has the skillset for that," Martinez says.
"But I've always been the person that she can always trust and count on in a city where there are a lot of people who you cannot trust and count on. Their friendship has evolved along those lines," he adds.
We can watch this unfold when the show returns with episode two on Wednesday, October 2, on ABC.