Exclusive: Tory Kittles talks The Equalizer Season 2 and what's ahead for Detective Marcus Dante
Coming out this week on CBS is the second season of its #1 entertainment series, THE EQUALIZER starring Queen Latifah. The series premieres Sunday, Oct. 10 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
Chris Noth, Lorraine Toussaint, Tory Kittles, Adam Goldberg, Liza Lapira and Laya DeLeon Hayes also star.
THE EQUALIZER is a reimagining of the classic series starring Academy Award® nominee and multi-hyphenate Queen Latifah (“Chicago,” “Bessie”) as Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills as a former CIA operative to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall presents to most as an average single mom who is quietly raising her teenage daughter. But to a trusted few, she is The Equalizer – an anonymous guardian angel and defender of the downtrodden, who’s also dogged in her pursuit of personal redemption.
Robyn’s clandestine work and her personal life collide when her smart and observant daughter, Delilah, and her aunt Vi, who lives with Robyn to help her balance life as a working mother, discover her secret career as a vigilante. While Robyn contends with uncertainty at home, she is joined in her pursuit of justice by William Bishop, her former CIA handler and longtime friend; Melody “Mel” Bayani, an edgy bar owner, and sniper from Robyn’s past; and Harry Keshegian, a paranoid and brilliant white-hat hacker. As Robyn aids the oppressed and exploited, she sometimes works with Marcus Dante, an NYPD detective who once sought to uncover her identity, but now respects the need for Robyn’s type of justice even as he often questions her methods.
Kittles is best known for his television roles in the drama series “True Detective,” opposite Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, Carlton Cuse’s “Colony,” with Josh Holloway, and Kurt Sutter’s “Sons of Anarchy.”
On the big screen, Kittles made his feature film debut in “Tigerland,” opposite Colin Farrell. He would go on to play Frederick Douglass in Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet”; star in Antoine Fuqua’s “Olympus Has Fallen” and Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna”; and appear opposite Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in “Get Rich or Die Tryin’.”
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales recently spoke with Kittles on what’s ahead for his character Detective Marcus Dante.