Erika Christensen revealed if Scott Foley being booked and busy is cause for concern when it comes to her pregnant character Angie’s romance with Seth on Will Trent.
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Christensen, 43, addressed how Foley’s new role in Wonder Project’s It’s Not Like That affects his future on Will Trent, saying, “I will say the shoot schedules don’t directly overlap.”
Christensen couldn’t give too much away about Angie and Seth’s future.
“I don’t know what I can say, but I also don’t know where it’s going,” she admitted to Us. “All I can say is what we’ve seen. We’ve seen that it’s something really beautiful and unique for her. She has never experienced a healthy relationship. So it’s what she deserves. She deserves something nice and as of now she has it.”
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Based on a book by Karin Slaughter, Will Trent follows a special agent at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who was abandoned at birth and grew up in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Will (Ramón Rodríguez) now relies on his unique perspective while pursuing justice, which leads to the highest clearance rate in the GBI.
Season 4 featured a time jump that showed Angie weeks away from giving birth to her and now-fiancé Seth’s baby.
“The whole pregnancy story line was out of the blue for me. I didn’t see that coming and she didn’t see that coming. She’s just such an independent person and she’s so used to her freedom. Angie is so used to taking everything at face value,” Christensen noted. “To have her soften or find new parts of herself and new willingness to be vulnerable is really interesting to me.”
The actress noted that she still doesn’t “know where it’s all going,” adding, “The time jump was very much a time of growth for her — mentally and emotionally. Because at the end of season 3, she was really struggling with losing her mom [despite] her mother being such a toxic presence in her life. She was such a selfish and awful person to raise a child. Then what’s being fed back to her from Seth comes with no judgment and comes with just fresh eyes on who she is now and not who what she’s been through. So it’s really bringing Angie to a more present outlook.”
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Christensen continued: “She’s still working full time, but I think she’s becoming a lot more comfortable with exploring these new aspects of herself and not laying down rules about what kind of parent she’s going to be. But it is about knowing what kind of parent she’s not going to be and what kind of wife she’s going to be. It’s new territory.”
As for Angie’s relationship with ex-boyfriend Will after over two decades of ups and downs?
“When Will is truly in danger at the beginning of this season, Angie tells Seth, ‘He’s my family.’ It’s actually so nice that there’s a word for it because the bond there is not a breakable bond. They are family,” Christensen told Us. “They could pretend like they’re not or they could try to not be but they’re family. That doesn’t put anything else onto it. That doesn’t mean that they have a good relationship or a bad relationship or a romantic relationship or not. It just means that this person is a part of me. This person is a part of my life. Ultimately, I think they both know that no matter what happens — if something good happens for the other — they should be happy for them. So I think that’s obvious. We’re going to work on that.”
Will Trent airs on ABC Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET before streaming the next day on Hulu.
