La Brea Stars Tease Ty’s Timey-Wimey Final-Season Quest, ‘Meeting’ Gavin and Sam Again
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The following contains spoilers from the Season 3 premiere of NBC’s La Brea.
La Brea‘s final-season premiere ended with a timey-wimey twist, when Ty (played by Chiké Okonkwo) got accidentally yanked into a double-aurora portal that transported him from 10,000 B.C. to Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 2021.
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Though at first justifiably startled by the unplanned trip, Ty’s wheels clearly started turning when he realized that he was back in L.A. two weeks before the series’ eponymous sinkhole opened.
“What a brilliant twist, for Ty to find himself where he finds himself — not just in 2021, but with the ability to maybe affect what happens to his friends” in the not-too-distant future, cast member Chiké Okonkwo remarks to TVLine.
Upon gaining his bearings there in 2021, “Ty goes through the same quest that he’s been on, to try and help his friends get home,” the English actor previews.
To that end — and as trumpeted in “Coming Soon” promos — Ty will at first seek out a pre-sinkhole Dr. Sam Velez (Jon Seda) and do his best to explained what happened. Er, will happen.
“It’s a really excellent part of this season, and for me it was such a joy,” Okonkwo effuses. “Plus I get to continue to work with Jon but in an entirely different way, where Ty has all the info and Sam has none. So this close bond that we’ve built over two years…? We now have to start all over again, and it was good fun to do it.”
“As Chike said, we had built such a great relationship, not just on-screen but personally,” says Seda, “and here we’re trying to play a couple of guys that are starting over [their friendship] in a sense. That to me was the challenging part because we wanted to make it as authentic as we could.”
Meaning, Sam won’t easily buy the extremely far-out tale this stranger is selling.
Says Okonkwo, “There’s a lovely moment where Ty just turns up one day and introduces himself as Dr. Ty Coleman, and Sam’s like, ‘Well, he’s a doctor. I’ll hear him out.’ But then everything Ty says gets more and more crazy, quite frankly, so it’s hard for Sam to come along on that journey.”
The same promos reveal that Gavin — who in that pre-sinkhole time, you may recall, was going through some things! — also is approached by time traveler Ty.
“That was a really nice, extra touch that [La Brea creator] David Appelbaum brought to the season,” says Eoin Macken. “It was so much to fun to play Gavin before and Gavin where he is now, because [the Gavin that Ty finds] was from even before Season 1 happened. We got to see where he had really been initially, and you don’t get to do too often, see where a character has gone over just a couple of episodes.”
Surveying Ty’s Back to the Future-esque adventure as a whole, Okonkwo says, “David Appelbaum went ‘no holds barred’ with these last episodes, so for us it was a joy to bring what he saw to the screen.”
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