DC Comics character Detective Jim Corrigan makes his debut on NBC's "Constantine" on Friday night.
On the show's Atlanta, Ga., set earlier this week, series star Matt Ryan (who plays John Constantine) told reporters what to expect when the character, played by Emmett Scanlan, crops up.
"John and Jim kind of cross paths on a case and I think what's interesting is Jim is introduced to this world which he doesn't believe. He thinks, 'What the f*** is all this supernatural kind of stuff? How is it real?'" Matt said.
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Friday’s "Danse Vaudou" episode sees John, Zed and Chas on a case in New Orleans, where folks appear to be coming back from the dead.
Matt previewed that viewers will be able to see John and Jim, who is working the case too, as two men with similar goals, but different methods.
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"What's interesting about their relationship is they both want the same thing, ultimately, but they come at it from different angles and they're willing to sacrifice different parts of themselves, and I think that ultimately, Corrigan wants justice, but that comes from a form of rage and a form of anger. With John, it's complicated. There's those things as well, but there's a lot of other stuff going on as well," Matt said.
"I think that Jim's world is very much based in the real world and John obviously knows about the world beyond ours, so there's whole other kinds of levels to what's going on with John and John uses his humor as a defense mechanism," the actor continued. "He's become really good at kind of just hiding it, whereas Corrigan is someone who I think is – you can kind of see more on the surface, he's a little bit more scarred, but I think that John's problems are probably more deeper rooted, if that makes sense, but he hides them. He hides them well."
This week's episode also sees the return of Papa Midnite (Michael James Shaw), prompting a run in between John and that character, and a little teamwork.
"They're kind of uneasy allies and they need each other, even though they don't like working together," Matt said of John and Papa’s relationship.
"There's a line in there where I say, 'You work within a very narrow framework, you know? Just voodoo,' and then John's a street magician. He's someone who will use whatever he needs and Papa doesn't like that and yeah, there's an interesting conflict between the two of them there, but they need each other as well and they have a fundamental respect for each other's magic, even though they go at each other a bit."
"Constantine" continues Friday at 10 PM ET/PT on NBC.
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