"I Can Never Fight Like That": Why Reacher’s Alan Ritchson Worried About The Show’s Action (& How He Nailed It)

The titular character in Amazon’s Reacher fights in a unique way, but star Alan Ritchson was concerned he’d never be able to pull off the character’s particularly brutal style. Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels have been bestsellers for over 20 years, with the books being a unique blend of traditional murder mystery thrillers but starring an ’80s action movie hero. The Reacher of Child’s work sounds a lot like Dolph Lundgren in his heyday, but the difficulty of finding an actor with the right mix of intellect and muscles led to the producers of the Jack Reacher movies giving up on the latter element, and casting Tom Cruise instead.