Should you’ll indulge us, we would wish to reopen an investigation that “Excessive Potential” severely missed: the case of the lacking mustache.
We’re referring to Captain Nick Wagner, who reappeared clear shaven this week after rocking some polarizing facial hair for a number of episodes. Positive, the present briefly addressed the choice, with Morgan assuming partial blame for teasing him about it beforehand, but it surely was all just a little too straightforward for us. Was it actually due to what Morgan mentioned, or was it merely time for the little bugger to go?
After talking with “Excessive Potential” showrunner Todd Harthan, TVLine can verify that Nick made the choice independently from Morgan’s suggestions. (After they first met within the elevator, she requested him, “What’s somebody such as you doing in a police station? Attempting to get that mustache to make sense?”)
“It was time for it to go, and I do not assume it had something to do with what Morgan mentioned,” Harthan explains. “I believe he is in all probability had loads of individuals in his orbit aside from Morgan touch upon that exact a part of his aesthetic, and sooner or later you are identical to, ‘All proper, sufficient is sufficient. This factor’s received to go.'”
However what in regards to the behind-the-scenes of all of it? If it wasn’t going for use as some kind of character system, why did Steve Howey actually shave? And for that matter, why did he have a mustache within the first place? Enter Harthan with the backstory:
“Steve Howey was doing one other collection on the time that required him having a beard, however we did not need him to have a beard within the present as a result of … we have already got loads of beards floating round,” Harthan says. “So we thought he’d be clear shaven, however the different present was like, ‘Can we not [shave] the entire thing? Can you allow just a little?’ So we mentioned, ‘OK, we’ll go away the mustache and see the way it seems to be.’ We checked out it and thought, ‘All proper, it is not fairly Tom Selleck, however cool.”
The mustache survived for a number of episodes, however after a lot suggestions, the choice was made to shave it off. Harthan lastly needed to inform the opposite present, “Guys, we respect that you do not wish to put a full faux beard on him, however we have had lots of people weigh in on this factor and the ‘stache has to go.”
Lest you assume we’re making an enormous deal out of nothing, know this: “I believe they known as it Stachegate on set,” Harthan says. “I’ve had extra conversations about that man’s facial hair than I’ve had about our season finale plans.”
OK, let’s discuss: Have been you a fan of Nick’s short-lived mustache? Did you additionally imagine that Morgan’s teasing had one thing to do with him shaving it? And the way are you feeling about Howey’s character general? Drop a remark together with your ideas beneath.
