Jimmy Smits continues to move effortlessly between film, TV and stage. His versatile acting has garnered him critical acclaim and 41 award nominations, including wins for both Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. Smits can be seen in the music-driven drama series “The Get Down,” from creator Shawn Ryan (“The Shield”) and director Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge”) and the new hit FOX show “24: Legacy.”
The clock ticks again with “24: Legacy” the next evolution of the Emmy Award-winning “24.” The series chronicles an adrenaline-fueled race against the clock to stop a devastating terrorist attack on United States soil – in the same real-time format that has propelled this genre-defining series.
“ The bottom line is that we have to do things that are for the good of the country, that’s what the characters are going through, and again that’s the parallel of what’s happening now as well, I guess,” said Smits in a phone interview with CelebrityXO.
“I have to frame it with regards not just to my character but the pairing of Miranda’s character and what I do because we are joined at the hip in that regard, so what we talked about is that we wanted to explore this whole thing about a power couple. The reality that we deal with on the show has to do with politics, but just in our conversations not only with the director and between us as actors and the writers have been how do people when they are in the same industry at high levels negotiate their work and the kind of contracts that they have to have that sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the other person so that they can take two steps forward. During the course of the 12 episodes that we are doing that’s going to become very, very evident and it plays in terms of their relationship. Having now shot the final couple of episodes, there was a real emotional rollercoaster that both of our characters, well that all of the characters in the show really have to go through. But I didn’t realize that we were going to go through it from A through Z, to ZZ with my guy, not this season, but that’s where we’re headed,” added Smits.
Six months ago in Yemen, an elite squad of U.S. Army Rangers, led by Sergeant ERIC CARTER (Corey Hawkins, “Straight Outta Compton”), killed terrorist leader Sheik Ibrahim Bin-Khalid. In the aftermath, Bin-Khalid’s followers declared a fatwah against Carter, his squad and their families, forcing them into federal witness protection. But a recent attempt on Carter’s own life makes it clear to him that his team has been exposed.
To thwart further attacks, Carter enlists REBECCA INGRAM (Miranda Otto, “Homeland”), who quarterbacked the raid that killed Bin-Khalid. She’s a brilliant and ambitious intelligence officer who has stepped down from her post as National Director of CTU to support her husband, SENATOR JOHN DONOVAN (Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Jimmy Smits, “NYPD Blue,” “The West Wing”), in his campaign for President of the United States. Decades of sleepless nights and missed anniversaries landed her at the top.
24: LEGACY is a production of 20th Century Fox Television in association with Imagine Television, Teakwood Lane, Rego Park Film and Television and Borderland Entertainment. The pilot was written by Coto and Katz and was directed by Stephen Hopkins. “Like” 24: LEGACY on Facebook at facebook.com/24fox. Follow the series on Twitter @24fox and join the discussion at #24Legacy. See photos and videos on Instagram by following @24onFOX.
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