{"id":52196,"date":"2024-05-28T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2047009"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:34:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T13:34:39","slug":"the-outlaws-star-says-christopher-walkens-absence-was-felt-in-season-3","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-outlaws-star-says-christopher-walkens-absence-was-felt-in-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outlaws star says Christopher Walken\u2019s \u2018absence was felt\u2019 in season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rhianne Barreto spoke to RadioTimes.com about the Hollywood legend. <\/p>

By David Craig\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 13:22 PM<\/p>

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The Outlaws star Rhianne Barreto has said that Hollywood legend Christopher Walken\u2019s absence was felt in season 3.<\/p>\n

The world-famous actor surprised fans by joining the BBC drama in 2021, where he played the enigmatic loner Frank, con man and estranged father of Margaret (Dolly Wells), who winds up doing community service in Bristol.<\/p>\n

The character plays a major role across seasons 1 and 2, which were filmed back-to-back, but has a greatly reduced presence in the third outing, with first-look photos suggesting his character will be found working in a caf\u00e9 (see above).<\/p>\n

At a Q&A to mark the launch of The Outlaws season 3, creator Stephen Merchant said that Walken\u2019s smaller role can be explained largely by the Screen Actors Guild strike, as well as the actor\u2019s busy slate of other projects.<\/p>

\u201cAlthough the [SAG strike] didn\u2019t impact us, it did impact American actors,\u201d said Merchant. \u201cThey weren\u2019t allowed to come over during that. Of course, that hit right when we were filming. That did make life tricky for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is back, but it was hard to fit him in with all the other things he was doing and the strike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a>, actor Rhianne Barreto (who plays troublemaker Rani Rekowski) reflected on filming The Outlaws season 3 without Walken on set.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish he was around more, and his absence was totally felt,\u201d she began. \u201cEspecially as season 1 and 2 was filmed all together, so we never got to have the special feeling of doing a series, it being received [well], and then coming back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a specificity to that experience that we weren\u2019t afforded\u2026 so I would have loved to have spoken to him about it and kind of shared in the critical and public acclaim of those last two seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n