“That was the thing that I thought, ‘How are they going to do this?'”

“As you know, Reacher is a big, tough guy,” the author tellsEntertainment Weekly.

“Where are we going to find that guy?”

Alan Ritchson (Jack Reacher) in Reacher Season 3

Alan Ritchson, ‘Reacher’.Credit:Jasper Savage/Prime

the author remembers wondering as the show began casting season 3.

“That was the thing that I thought, ‘How are they going to do this?’

It was literally an international search.

Olivier Richters (Paulie), Alan Ritchson (Jack Reacher) in Reacher season 3

Olivier Richters, Alan Ritchson, ‘Reacher’.Jasper Savage/Prime

Suffice to say, Paulie is going to cause some, well,bigproblems for Reacher.

“He hits Paulie, and no reaction whatsoever.

And Reacher’s face is like, ‘What?!’

He can’t believe it.

And Alan captures that perfectly.”

“And it doesn’t happen straight away.

What is going to be the outcome of that?

Because the guy’s genuinely scary.”

Reacherseason 3 premieres Thursday, Feb. 20, on Amazon.