The entire first season of Motorheads centered around Ryan Phillippe‘s mysterious — and missing — onscreen brother Christian Maddox, but who does the cast want to see fill the role in season 2?
During the Prime Video series, which premiered on Tuesday, May 20, Logan’s (Phillippe) brother Christian was seen in flashbacks before disappearing after a botched heist. The season ended by hinting that adult Christian could still be alive — and the show’s stars Michael Cimino, Melissa Collazo, Uriah Shelton, Nicolas Cantu, Mia Healey, Josh Macqueen and Drake Rodger have some ideas as to who could fill his mysterious shoes.
Both Collazo, 24, and Cantu, 21, floated the idea of Hayden Christensen joining the show.
“I would love it if it was Hayden Christensen,” Shelton, 28, exclusively told Us Weekly during the press junket. “I would have a hard time not making Star Wars jokes — but I feel like he’s used to that.”
Meanwhile Cimino, 25, pitched Ethan Hawke — even though he is older than Phillippe, 50, adding, “Just as an actor that I would love to work: Ethan Hawke. I would die to work with Ethan Hawke and for him to be my onscreen dad. That would be so sick.”
Macqueen, 23, suggested James Spader to Us, while Rodger, 26, circled back to his The Winchesters costar Jensen Ackles.
“I would love Jensen. He would be fun. I feel like Jensen and Ryan could play siblings,” Rodger added. “I just don’t know if Jensen could play Ryan’s younger sibling but [we can pretend].”
Motorheads “follows a group of outsiders in a once-thriving Rust Belt town as they form an unlikely friendship over a mutual love of automobiles.” In addition to the main cast, Phillippe’s son, Deacon, was cast in the role of a younger Christian. (Nathalie Kelley and Matt Lanter make up the rest of the adult cast.)
“It’s so unique to be in a situation like this where you’re both working on a show with really good people,” Phillippe exclusively told Us at the show’s Los Angeles premiere earlier this month. “It definitely wasn’t lost on either of us. There were times when we would look at each other and just be like, ‘Can you believe that we’re actually doing this?'”
Motorheads executive producers John A. Norris and Jason Seagraves recalled the process of bringing Deacon, 21, onto the show.
“I’ve known Ryan for quite a while now, so to actually get to work with him and see how professional he is and he comes to work prepared every single day,” Seagraves shared with Us. “He just brought so much heart to it and [we] couldn’t be more fortunate to have him.”
Norris, meanwhile, opened up about how Phillippe supported his son, emphasizing that no strings were pulled in Deacon’s favor.
“Him showing up [to set] — not to play Logan — but because his son was there was really sweet. He really was not involved in the hiring of Deacon,” Norris told Us. “We sort of kept it from him for a little while. Then we came to him and yeah, he would show up.”
Norris continued: “He just didn’t show up the night that [Deacon] had a kiss scene, but it was just super sweet. He loves that kid so much and it shows. And him showing up as the proud dad was pretty great.”
Motorheads is currently streaming on Prime Video.
