{"id":668900,"date":"2025-05-13T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/will-trent-star-erika-christensen-unpacks-those-angie-bombshells\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:55:15","slug":"will-trent-star-erika-christensen-unpacks-those-angie-bombshells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/will-trent-star-erika-christensen-unpacks-those-angie-bombshells\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will Trent\u2019 Star Erika Christensen Unpacks Those Angie Bombshells"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tErika Christensen, whom\u00a0Will Trent\u00a0<\/em>fans know best as Angie Polaski, has been an actress for more than 25 years now. Her many credits include the films\u00a0Traffic\u00a0<\/em>(2000),\u00a0The Banger Sisters\u00a0<\/em>(2002) and\u00a0The Upside of Anger\u00a0<\/em>(2005) as well as the beloved Ron Howard-produced NBC series<\/a>\u00a0Parenthood<\/em>, which ran on NBC from 2010 to 2015. <\/p>\n

\n\tSince\u00a0Will Trent\u00a0<\/em>premiered in 2023, Christensen has breathed complex life into Angie, a cop who shares Will Trent\u2019s (Ram\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez) complicated foster care past. That experience trauma bonded the two who have been linked since adolescence. Angie is constantly fighting her many other demons. Suffering sexual abuse as a young girl fueled her reckless behavior as a young woman who used alcohol, drugs and sex to numb her childhood pain. <\/p>\n

\n\tLast season, she and Will\u2019s would-be happ<\/a>ily ever ending blew up when Will discovered that she covered up a young girl named Crystal killing her sexually abusive stepfather who also victimized her. She also failed to disclose that Crystal was behind the killing of other pedophiles. Because Will is a straight arrow, he didn\u2019t keep her secret. He, instead, did the unthinkable and arrested her. Their relationship has not been the same since. As the season has progressed, they\u2019ve made their way back to speaking terms but mainly as co-workers.<\/p>\n

\n\tAngie\u2019s personal life has been quite interesting. Just as she was finding peace with Seth, the attractive doctor\u00a0Scandal\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Felicity\u00a0<\/em>star Scott Foley portrays, her biological mother Didi Polaski, who began pimping her out as a child, dies. Instead of feeling free, Angie is so emotionally wrecked she starts drinking again. And then she gets the surprise of her life when she finds out she may be a mother. That discovery sends shock and panic through every inch of her.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnlike past seasons, Christensen wasn\u2019t sitting on the sidelines for this one. In addition to taking Angie through all these lows and unexpected surprises, Christensen made her TV directorial debut with season three\u2019s penultimate episode 17, \u201cWhy Hello, Sheriff,\u201d arguably one of this\u00a0series\u2019<\/em>\u00a0most explosive episodes. In a twist few could see coming, Will finds his biological father during an investigation. Caleb, played by Yul Vazquez from\u00a0Severance<\/em>, is also a cop who also had absolutely no idea about Will.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter\u00a0<\/em>caught up with Christensen going into Tuesday night\u2019s season three finale to discuss navigating her TV directorial debut with so much personal drama and if it\u2019s really the end between Angie and Will.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHow did you get so lucky for the penultimate episode of season three to be your TV directorial debut?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI did get lucky. I was originally assigned a different episode, and then, because of two big scheduling factors, we had to swap everything around. I ended up getting this one, and I was so excited. It pulls no punches. It\u2019s just like nonstop bombshells throughout the whole episode.<\/p>\n

\n\tHow long did you know you wanted to direct? What kind of preparation did you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI have directed short films, and I have said previously that I wanted to direct TV, but I didn\u2019t feel it as genuinely as I did with this show. Because I love this team, and I love collaborating with this team, and I love feeling like I\u2019m part of the team, directing is just kind of the ultimate in that feeling of like I\u2019m really on the team. And I really had been asking for this job, and saying, \u201cOkay, here we are.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tI know the tone of this show. I know I\u2019m in the trenches here. I know these characters, and I know what we do and I\u2019d be so honored to do it.\u2019 And so then, they said yes. And as I mentioned, I previously was scheduled to do a different episode, potentially an episode in which I had less on-screen crazy drama to contend with but I\u2019m very happy that it turned out this way, and I really enjoyed tackling Angie\u2019s storyline as well as the Will Caleb storyline and the cases and Ormewood\u2019s ongoing health threat, which, ironically, as heavy as that is, that was where so much of the humor came from in this episode.<\/p>\n

\n\tHow long did you have to prepare for the episode?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tNot long. The writers were really under the gun to get the scripts out. And because we had to shoot the episodes out of order, they had to write 317 before they were prepared to write 317 so I didn\u2019t have much time. We had just the normal I guess a week or eight days of prep. It was a whirlwind of fun, and of course, I still had to shoot. But the team is really competent and tight and communicative, and they appreciated what I [had] to deal with. I was like, \u201cCool, you guys keep prepping this episode. Text me when you find out this and that, and text me photos of this and that, and I gotta go shoot some scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDid Ram\u00f3n like directing give you even more confidence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThere are plenty of actors who direct their own shows. It\u2019s your mental capacity for it, but it\u2019s also a logistical issue. And since he often has way more on-screen [time] to contend with than I do, I was like \u2018great, I got this.\u2019 He was directing the season premiere. He just had the biggest grin on his face the whole time.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u00a0alluded to it but Angie\u2019s still going through a lot. It\u2019s not as dramatic as the previous episode, which was really a lot for Angie in losing her mom. But now she\u2019s contemplating whether she can be a mother or not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYeah. After just having seen the kind of mother she had, now the audience has all the context for this decision. I think her struggle will be to be present with the decision and divorce it from her own mother, because she doesn\u2019t want to make the decision to spite her mother, to prove her wrong and make it about her. Or she doesn\u2019t want to let the trauma that [her mother] inflicted sort of win and make her too scared to confront this new, potentially really beautiful chapter. So, yeah, she has a lot to consider. And then there\u2019s Seth who is like a very emotionally evolved person who\u2019s up for the challenge, not only of parenthood, but of being with Angie.<\/p>\n

\n\tHow was it being in such an emotional place and, also, directing? How were you able to manage those two things? Because even though Angie\u2019s not doing as much as last episode, and a lot of what we see being more internal than external, you had to play here and, also, be responsible for a show that has at least two or three other very intense things going on at the same time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI ended up considering it like five different storylines, because there\u2019s Will\u2019s case, and then his relationship with Caleb, and then the case that they turn up, which is the bioweapon, not the murders, and then Ormewood\u2019s health, and then Angie\u2019s whole storyline. So, there\u2019s a lot going on. You know the on-screen part is where I\u2019m comfortable because I\u2019ve been doing it my whole life. When we were shooting days where I had no on-screen time, it was like, \u201cOh, this is fun. I don\u2019t have to go through hair and makeup, and I can just be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then on the days where I was working, I went through hair and makeup first, regardless of when my scene was in the day, just so we didn\u2019t have to take a break for me to go through hair and makeup. That doesn\u2019t mean that I knew exactly what it looked like, especially like my own face. I didn\u2019t know what it was doing, necessarily, until I watched it. But I found that it didn\u2019t require me watching a whole lot of it for me to understand what we got. And, so we\u2019d shoot, and then I\u2019d watch a little bit and be like \u2018great, okay, yeah, this is okay, and then the next one is going to be tighter in here, and then, but can it be like that?\u2019 We\u2019d quickly work it out, and then I would hop back into the hospital bed or whatever. It ended up working really well. It only added a little bit of time for me to have to take those peeks at what we had just shot. But we accounted for that in scheduling, and it worked out.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, let\u2019s talk about how you also handled and shot Will finding out who his father was in the most you know\u00a0Will Trent<\/em>\u00a0of ways. In the episode, you had shots focusing on Will\u2019s jawline, and then over to the father, Caleb\u2019s jawline. When the two of them first appeared on screen together, nobody\u2019s thinking they even looked alike. Then once this bombshell truth comes out, those shots are like \u201coh, wow, yes they do.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYule, who plays Caleb, even found some character similarities between Caleb and Will. It\u2019s so great, because you\u2019re right, you don\u2019t see it coming at all. And then once the truth is there, it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, look at these two. That is a father and son.\u2019 That scene where Caleb comes to Will\u2019s door, I love so much. Will has so much defensiveness, but Caleb has a sort of an apologetic sense about him. Even though he did nothing wrong, he had no idea Will existed; he didn\u2019t abandon him. There was no choice to be made, but that moment where they\u2019re first standing there looking at each other\u2019s faces, I was like, \u201cYou guys enjoy that. Enjoy taking as much time as you want to look at each other\u2019s faces and recognize each other. See, look at him. See that. Yeah, that is your son, and that is your father.\u201d And Ram\u00f3n kept going \u2018yeah he is my father.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Will didn\u2019t know his father, they have so many similar characteristics. They are both in the same line of work as cops, which is wild, especially since, again, they never knew each other. What does this mean for Will going forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI think Will and Caleb have the potential for a much healthier relationship going forward. They seem to at least have gained each other\u2019s respect a bit by the end of this episode, so we\u2019ll see where that ultimately goes. But it\u2019s such a lovely thing to sort of, at this stage of Will\u2019s life, redeem some [good] parts of himself that he [lost] when he assumed that James Ulster was his father, this awful person who he hates, and didn\u2019t want to know for sure [was his father]. But then Will and Caleb get off on the wrong foot. But, ultimately, they have the potential to have a healthy relationship at this stage of Will\u2019s life, which is so fascinating.<\/p>\n

\n\tTalk about Amanda and her protectiveness, her \u201cMama Bearness\u201d if you will, coming out in her subtle but aggressive scene with Caleb concerning Will.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, I love that. It\u2019s like half threat and half just the truth. Like, who do you think you are? Caleb\u2019s just, like \u2018I just got here. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m trying.\u2019 And nobody\u2019s ready for it. Amanda\u2019s not ready for it. Will\u2019s not ready for it. Caleb\u2019s not ready for it.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Will speaks to Angie and learns that her mom died, his comment, \u201cSome people aren\u2019t meant to be mothers,\u201d without knowing Angie\u2019s condition and the decision she\u2019s wrestling with, stings. You could just feel Angie\u2019s hurt and pain. Will, again, has no clue, but the audience knows, and so does Angie. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, it\u2019s such a painful statement. It\u2019s insightful, and he\u2019s so justified in having said it because she didn\u2019t tell him that she\u2019s pregnant. He clearly would not have said that had she shared with him the truth, but she\u2019s trying to have this private moment where she can process and try to come to a decision of what her life might look like going forward. It\u2019s such a big decision, you know? And thank goodness Seth is not pushing her to make a decision. It\u2019s her decision to make. She\u2019s trying to make it for herself and for this person that she would be potentially bringing into the world, not for her mother, not for Seth, not for Will, not for anybody else.<\/p>\n

\n\tHow do you think Will finding his father may complicate something more within Angie, especially since she\u2019s worried about inheriting the worst traits of her mother at this trying time? And what does this mean for those who still hold out hope that Will and Angie can still be a thing, especially since we haven\u2019t seen Will\u2019s love interest in a while.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know. I love that they have each other in the way that family does, in the way that you just don\u2019t lose each other and you\u2019re just still there.<\/p>\n

\n\tFaith and Angie don\u2019t interact as much, so to see Faith with Angie during one of Angie\u2019s most vulnerable moments is a special thing. We don\u2019t often see them be tender with each other, and Faith is really kind and understanding with Angie in the bathroom scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tFaith has the simplest way to address what Angie could make very complicated, and she\u2019s the only one who can speak on the subject with any authority because she knows because she is a mother. So I think Angie will find Faith to be very valuable as a friend, to connect with on a much deeper level than they\u2019ve ever had the opportunity to before.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Angie\u2019s new relationship with Seth, played by Scott Foley, what makes them work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tHe is just such an emotionally evolved person, the way that he takes it in stride when Angie falls off the wagon and, he says, \u2018that happens.\u2019 He doesn\u2019t place blame, and he doesn\u2019t scream and call her names the way that Angie almost hopes he would, so that she could have a reason to hate him instead of hating herself. He just asks essentially what happened. And she then has the opportunity to examine what happened and give him a little bit of the truth of her mom having passed, but no context.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe is such a stable, loving person that it just seems like he can handle her. He knows who Angie is. He doesn\u2019t want to change her. He doesn\u2019t want to fix her. He doesn\u2019t hope that she\u2019s going to become someone else. He sees her and he loves her, and he\u2019s not triggered by her, and she\u2019s not triggered by him. They just have that freshness, and he has all of the depth of understanding with his own sobriety and struggles to bring also to the relationship. So I definitely think they have hope for a future together.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer mom\u2019s ashes are somewhere in the sewer and she\u2019s talking to her in that bathroom, but she\u2019s beating herself up because she still loves her mom, she still wants her mom, and she doesn\u2019t feel like she should.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tShe doesn\u2019t feel like she should still love someone that wasn\u2019t good to her, that she should seek the approval of someone who doesn\u2019t deserve to have their opinion to account for anything because she was, in Angie\u2019s own words, an awful mother. And so it\u2019s hard to reconcile that sort of inherent love and just like starstruckness. It\u2019s somewhat of a familiar phenomenon we\u2019ve seen in some stories where the mother is so undeserving of this adoration, and the child just still sees them for all of their good qualities.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey\u2019re just overwhelmed with love and there\u2019s nothing wrong with loving someone but trying to please them, or trying to emulate them, or trying to do anything that aligns you with all of their bad qualities is the problem. And Angie, I think, is [realizing] \u201cI have to live my life for myself, and I\u2019m still living it for her. She\u2019s not even around, and if she were around, she\u2019d be awful.\u201d [Angie is] just trying to really live her own life.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt shows the weight that trauma has on us. Finally,\u00a0talk about Angie and Ormewood\u2019s relationship and, how, with so much on her plate, if Angie can even be there for Ormewood during this scary period of his life with his health. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThey\u2019re like siblings to me. They both have toward each other sort of a tough love instinct, where they don\u2019t want to admit how much they care, but they really deeply care about each other. They\u2019ve come to be really close, but I definitely think of them as siblings. And I think, despite whatever she has coming down the pike for her, she\u2019s going to be there for him for whatever he has to endure. And honestly, I don\u2019t know where that storyline is going, but I know that they\u2019re essentially brother and sister.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWill Trent\u2019s season three finale airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. on ABC, streaming next day on Hulu. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Erika Christensen, whom\u00a0Will Trent\u00a0fans know best as Angie Polaski, has been an actress for more than 25 years now. Her many credits include the films\u00a0Traffic\u00a0(2000),\u00a0The Banger Sisters\u00a0(2002) and\u00a0The Upside of Anger\u00a0(2005) as well as the beloved Ron Howard-produced NBC series\u00a0Parenthood, which ran on NBC from 2010 to 2015. Since\u00a0Will Trent\u00a0premiered in 2023, Christensen has breathed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/176412_0373-e1747099291601.jpg?w=1440&h=810&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[156345,1940,137992,132170],"class_list":["post-668900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-erika-christensen","tag-hulu","tag-ramon-rodriguez","tag-will-trent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}