After Comic Con IGN was able to steal a quick conversation with two of the cast of Human Target Jakie Earle Haley and Mark Valley. They seem to have a great relationship and bounce off each others comments with a high about of energy. In the pilot we did not get to see the two side by side too often. But from this interview we can tell that in future episodes their dynamic will be a trill to watch.
Before I could even bring up the awesome action sequences on the show, Haley beat us to it. "This guy (Valley) smokes it. Man, that action sequence just floored me. "When I was watching the pilot, and that sequence hit, and kept coming and coming, I felt like I was watching a movie," Haley beamed. "Like a big time movie." Valley, as the man of action in the fight scene, added "I remember doing it, and it seemed like there was enough fighting inside the air duct. And then it fell out of the air duct and it starts all over again." Valley himself marveled at the choreography. "One of the coolest things about it was that everything became a weapon." Valley went on to say that the stunt work was a lot like dancing. He worked with the trainers for three days before the shoot date. "Actually in the future I think I'm going to make sure that the stunt man knows it really well," Valley laughed. Valley himself then shared some of his love for Haley's performance in the pilot. Haley plays a seemingly unimposing man of mystery, Guerrero, who's able to pose a threat without using his fists. "Marla and the girls," Valley said doing a slight impersonation of Haley's voice in a particular scene. "It creeped me out," Valley added. We don't really find out a whole bunch about the primary players of Human Target (Chance, Guerrero (Haley) and Winston (Chi McBride) in the pilot.
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Did the actors have any backstory to share with us? What did they know about their characters? "Not a whole lot," admitted Haley. "That's kind of what's so neat about this television series is being able to go in there and develop this." Valley too was in the dark a bit when it came to playing Christopher Chance. "That's the greatest thing about TV," he shared, "is that we're sort of on the ride with everyone else." Haley and Valley have talked about the possibilities though. Both of them agree that there must be some darkness in Chance's past that causes him to put his life so directly on the line for his clients. Haley has also figured out that his character, Guerrero, must be connected to that dark past as well as Chi McBride's character. Haley told us that "it's almost as if he (Chance) were a recovering alcoholic, and Chi was the sponsor and Guerrero is the old drug dealer."What brought Haley to his first ever TV series? "What really drew me in was the notion of getting to develop a character over time," said Haley. "And working with Jon (showrunner and Jericho co-creator, Steinberg) and his team to discover who Guerrero is , you know, what is his relationship with Chance and how that helps support his character, while having a nice fleshed out character of his own."
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