It was really fun."
TEO YOO: Oh, wow.
Swimming in the river in Vancouver in the middle of the winter.
Its like doing a cold plunge for an extended period of time.
NOAH CENTINEO: It was a rush.
It was really fun.
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And then, theres the club fight scene where we get to fight people together.
YOO: Right, that was also very, very cool.
That scene is so fun because its so early on in your relationship over the season.
What was that fight scene like to figure out for yourselves, but also with each other?
CENTINEO: We shot that at the end of the season.
Its such a bro thing to bond over fighting.
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What I love most about that is that we team up.
The first season had some air to breathe.
And then, in the second season, theres almost no air.
Its propulsive and it just moves from the very first moment to the end.
Noah, your character seems to always find himself challenged by a woman with an accent.
What did you enjoy about the dynamic this season with Nichka compared to last season with Max Meladze?
He gets challenged by some women in the show.
CENTINEO: Hell yeah, as he should be.
Youll have to talk to Alexi about that.
Alexi constantly gets Owen berated by [women].
YOO: Accents are sexy.
CENTINEO: Accents are sexy.
I think your accent is sexy.
YOO: Thank you.
I think your accent is sexy.
CENTINEO: I appreciate that, deeply.
I cant speak to that.
I love it, though.
I think its awesome.
‘The Recruit’ Season 2 premieres on Netflix on Thursday, January 30.
YOO: I think he should be as impulsive as he is.
Do you know Captain Jack Sparrow?
Hes the spy lawyer version of that.
Youre like, Did he plan that, or did he just get lucky?
CENTINEO: The problem is not the problem.
The problem is the way youre looking at the problem.
Thats my favorite line.
What do we have, if Owen responds instead of reacts?
YOO: It also makes him so relatable to audiences.
Maybe fewer people would make a run at kill him, if he thought about things more.
CENTINEO: This is most likely very true.
How did you approach bringing that to life?
YOO: Its interesting to hear you say that.
But later, when I look at myself, I’m like, Dude, that guy has issues.
I cannot control that, but people just happen to like it, so Im lucky like that.
CENTINEO: It plays really well.
We dont just hear about it through him.
What does she mean to him?
How did that inform things for you, in figuring out what their bond is?
Everybody knows how that feels, so that wasnt really hard for me to play.
What was it like to pull off something that physical?
CENTINEO: Thats Leslie [Kwan].
Hes actually Teos stunt double.
That was our first time ever fighting.
That was really cool.
They had the choreography figured out and they taught it to me, leading up to that day.
The choreography was far more on Leslie than it was on me because Owens not a fighter.
It was a lot of dodging, ducking, blocking, and reacting to getting hit.
‘The Recruit’ is created by Alexi Hawley and stars Noah Centineo.
What was the bigger challenge?
Is it just easier to duck things flying at you?
CENTINEO: Theres a bit of lightheartedness, overall, with a lot of the action.
Were never looking to get so dramatic.
Thats not the tone of the show.
So, I get to really be expressive and scared and panic, in a high-octane place.
Theres definitely more to it when youre with a partner while youre fighting.
Its all make-believe and its for entertainment and its fun.
Im just happy that I get to look cool doing cool stuff.
CENTINEO: I think Jang Kyun would kill someone to get the love of his life back.
Owen comes from a place where he doesnt want to.
Thats so outside of his life.
Hes in a really hard place.
I certainly would want to see more.
CENTINEO: We certainly do, too.
YOO: Weve been daydreaming about what could happen to us.
Thats up to the mastermind, Alexi.
But if he calls us, Im there for him.
Hopefully, it also drives new people to the show that havent seen the show before.
Where will Owen go after Season 2?
YOO: I like the desert, so maybe Saudi Arabia or South America somewhere.
CENTINEO: Brazil would be cool.
We should go somewhere tropical, like the Caribbean.
Maybe Key West and Cuba, back and forth.
YOO: Have you ever been to Indonesia?
CENTINEO: Ive never been.
YOO: Java or Bali.
Its warm all day long, all year long.
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