How Adam Goldberg’s Character On The Equalizer Keeps Him ‘Intellectually Nimble’ – Exclusive

A hacker who faked his own death, Harry literally owes his life to McCall, whom he honorably repays with his superior sleuthing skills. This leads to a lot of technology-heavy terminology that Adam Goldberg has to memorize and recite, which he sees as a way to flex his personal brain power.

“I’m using this very specific part of my brain, which is probably good to keep me neuro-flexible as I age,” he says. “I keep thinking that it’s an exercise to offset any potential early-onset dementia because there’s so much information in each episode, and on the periphery of it, and I’m always having to disseminate it.”

It also opens up a new avenue for him to pursue, as many of his previous roles had him operating from a more emotional foundation.

“I definitely feel like I’ve been on every conceivable type of television show you could be on … They each bring with them different challenges and opportunities,” he says. On “The Equalizer,” Goldberg explains, “there’s totally different people, totally different stories, totally different nomenclature, totally different technology. I feel like it keeps me intellectually nimble, which is good. In that regard, it’s a whole other kind of work.”

“The Equalizer” airs new episodes on Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.