GameSpot spoke with Josh Charles and Dali Benssalah about their characters meeting each other on the upcoming Hulu series.
FX’s The Veil takes the audience into the world of international espionage on a personal and global scale.
Peterson works for the CIA in counter-terrorism and finds himself swept up into this mission.
“He’s kind of written as a bit of an instigator, as a disrupter.
So he’s a bit of a s*** stirrer,” Charles told GameSpot.
Underneath all of it, there’s a lot of order and a lot of discipline.
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“[Amar] is strictly professional,” Benssalah explained.
“His job is his life.
He’s at the center of a major international investigation, but he’s not on the ground.
He is stuck in the office.
So he feels powerless because [he] can’t be out there with Imogen.
He knows he and Imogen have a complex, romantic, and professional relationship.
When we meet the character, we can see that he is ready to explode.
This is a tricky, dangerous mission.
Nothing goes the way he wanted.
He is already nervous.”
However, this encounter promptly turns into a fight over a cell phone in the middle of an airport.
“It’s a crazy thing happening just in front of his eyes,” said Benssalah.
“They are just not professional at all, so it’s a big surprise to Amar.”
The same can’t be said for Peterson, Charles explained.
I don’t know how accurate it is, but it was fun to play.
The FX series The Veil airs Tuesdays on Hulu.
Episode 1 and 2 both launch on the streaming service on April 30.
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