Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. During his first day on set shooting the Netflix series The Recruit, Calgary actor Jesse Collin found an interesting way to find his character. It was in Montreal, although the city was actually supposed to be Yemen.
Playing a shadowy CIA operative named Dodge, Collin was instructed to pick out a watch to wear from the props department. It was a recurring role, but the character sketch he had been given was a little vague. Nevertheless, Collin was certain that Dodge would not have worn any of the watches the props department had available. Your weekday lunchtime roundup of curated links, news highlights, analysis and features.
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So he told the prop master he would cover up his wrist with a glove for the first day of shooting and provide Dodge with his own watch the following day. At home, he had a relatively simple, black-on-black G-shock number that seemed more fitting. It may seem like a small detail, but it helped fill in some of the gaps in creating the characters.
During his first week on the job, he discovers that a former CIA asset is blackmailing the agency, threatening to expose the murkier dealings of the agency unless she is exonerated of a serious crime.
