We chat with TheRookie's Robert Bella (brooklynbella) about directing upcoming episodes of season 5, working on TheRookieFeds, and the power of Chenford's chemistry;
After taking a few weeks off, The Rookie returns on Sunday, December 4th for its two-part winter finale. The series follows John Nolan , a man in his forties who decides to join the police force and reinvent himself after stopping a bank robbery. The procedural is currently in its fifth season, and the success of its recent spinoff series The Rookie: Feds indicates it won't be slowing down anytime soon.
Robert Bella: I'm just a gun for hire on that one. I was with The Rookie from the beginning as a writer-producer and then started directing last season. This season [I'm directing] on both The Rookie and Feds. Robert Bella: It's really cool. We're all on the Paramount lot together, so that's really awesome to just be able to wander over and say hi. Sometimes it's like, "Oh, look! The Rookie cast is over there. Oh, look! The Feds cast is over here.
You're directing this Sunday's upcoming episode, right? Part one of the winter finale? It looks like it's filmed through body cams. Logistically, it took a lot of time to sit down and really map out exactly what cameras capture who and why. What cameras do we need? When we film our scenes in the shops—in the police vehicles—we have anywhere from five to nine different camera angles that we'll use in those vehicles. That becomes a logistical challenge as well. How can we mount that many cameras? And where can we place them? The logistics of all of that are time-consuming.
Robert Bella: There is definitely movement forward in their storyline. Beyond that, I don't want to spoil anything other than to say, to all our fans, that I don't think you're gonna want to miss this episode. Robert Bella: I think it was a combination of the natural chemistry between the two of them as actors, and then as a writer on a TV show, and certainly Alexi as a showrunner, you hope that things evolve in a way that's compelling, but you never know.
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