Matlock‘s Skye P. Marshall has heard that Jason Ritter desires to seem on Tracker — and she or he has concepts about how he would match into Justin Hartley's hit CBS present.
After profitable Breakthrough Expertise on the seventh Annual African-American Movie Critics Affiliation TV Honors, Marshall spoke solely to Us Weekly about Ritter's concept for a Matlock and Tracker crossover.
“Jason involves set now, and he squints his eyes and he tries to play a rugged man. And we're like, ‘Are you able to please cease?'” she quipped. “And he'll put his foot up on the chair and squint his eyes like James Dean. It makes my abdomen crawl. I used to be like, ‘You're not a rugged man. OK?'”
Marshall would nonetheless like to see Ritter, 45, share the display screen with Hartley, 48. “However I really feel like he'd be the man that will get kidnapped,” she joked. “Please don't give Jason Ritter a gun.”
Throughout a separate interview with Us final month, Ritter shared some concepts about his character Julian's second act after Matlock's stunning revelation — which may embrace crossing over to Tracker.
“If Tracker ever desires a companion [for Justin's character, Colter], perhaps Julian leaves the agency and he begins a brand new life,” Ritter shared. “Simply two rugged guys.”
Ritter went on to pitch extra potential crossovers, saying, “Elsbeth is true there. Not solely are we on the identical evening, it's the world of regulation. I simply assume it could be so enjoyable.”
He continued: “I really like Carrie Preston a lot and I believe she's sensible. I might like to see that Elsbeth power on an episode of Matlock — or a few of us over in an episode of Elsbeth,” he continued. “Typically they do two episodes of every present the place they cross into one another. So that might be so enjoyable. That might be my dream.”
Marshall had an analogous thought of Matlock and Elsbeth.
“I wish to be associated to Wendell Pierce's character on Elsbeth, since we're each in New York,” she instructed to Us. “Possibly they want Jacobson & Moore to step in or Jacobson & Moore wants the cops to drag up. And may you think about Carrie Preston with Kathy Bates? Elsbeth and Matlock? Their quirkiness and their awkwardness — that's a crossover I wish to see!”
Matlock, which premiered in September 2024, follows a rich retired lawyer named Madeline Kingston (Kathy Bates), who pretends to be a poor widower named Matty Matlock to get a job at Jacobson Moore regulation agency. Because it seems, Matty thinks somebody on the firm is complicit within the opioid epidemic that resulted in her daughter's demise.
Marshall's efficiency as Olympia has received over followers and critics. It has additionally led to accomplishments such because the Breakthrough Expertise honor on the AAFCA.
“Truthfully, I'm simply actually emotional,” she informed Us. “I've seen a number of ladies and men right here who helped me alongside the way in which when nobody knew my identify and nobody was answering the calls. So to see them take a look at me and smile, I've been combating again the tears.”
Matlock returns to CBS on Sunday, October 12, at 8:30 p.m. ET earlier than taking its common Thursday evening time slot on October 16. New episodes can be streaming the subsequent day on Paramount+.
With reporting by Rebecca Ray
 
 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 