Rookie Blue’S Green Guy
COVER Story Rookie Blue’s green guy ter mess, but upon closer inspec- tion, there’s more to his story than meets the eye. BILL As far as Mooney’s character Nick goes, there’s more to his story than HarrIS meets the eye, too. Television “Gail, Charlotte Sullivan’s char- acter, and Nick have a history,” said Mooney, who originally is from There were uniform considera- Winnipeg. “So that helps bring Nick tions for Peter Mooney when he right into the middle of things, for joined Rookie Blue fresh off his role better or worse. in Camelot. “There are a lot of characters “They wouldn’t let me keep a on Rookie Blue, but it’s so well sword in my gun belt, for some rea- designed as an ensemble show, son,” Mooney said. “I thought it in that there’s so much we all do would be kind of a cool character together. So I’m definitely not trait.” bored. It’s busy.” Nonetheless, the transition of There obviously are a lot of police skills from one job to another also shows on TV, many of them centred is the issue for Mooney’s character on young cops who work hard, play in Rookie Blue, which returns for its hard, live hard and love hard, dam- third season Thursday, on Global mit. Mooney — who played Sir Kay and ABC. in Camelot, which was cancelled “Nick Collins comes in, he’s the after one season — was asked if he new rookie,” Mooney said. “But it’s has a theory as to why Rookie Blue an interesting dynamic with him, cuts through the clutter.
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