Amazon’s Reacher Shoot Took A Massive Toll On Alan Ritchson – Looper

“I was dying. You can hear it in some of the scenes. It was crazy,” Alan Ritchson told Inside of You. “People don’t know the kind of drain … what you put your body through to survive that kind of stuff, but this was intense.”

When you add this to his gaining about 30 pounds to bulk up for the role, the actor definitely went through some things to make the first season of Reacher. “Reacher’s a heavy yoke to wear, he left me a little wounded,” Ritchson told Variety. “Hopefully, we can do many more. I’ll put those scars behind me.”

Presumably, the success of “Reacher” has given the show a bit more breathing room to make the second season filming a bit easier on its titular star. The first season was filmed in Toronto in 2021 between April 15 and July 31, a period of about three and a half months. Production started on the second season in September 2022, according to Amazon Prime Video, and didn’t wrap up until late February, which means it filmed for five months. Hopefully, it was a bit less of an ordeal for the show’s lead star.

However, that’s unclear. In his wrap message, Ritchson appears with fake blood on his face and says, “As you can see, things got a little crazy. We promised things would be back bigger and better than ever. And we did not lie.”