Warning: This article contains spoilers about Wednesday’s episode ofNancy Drewthat featured the backdoor pilot for spin-offTom Swift.
is pretty high up on the list.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What has been your favorite part of playing Tom so far?
Tian Richards as Tom Swift and Tunji Kasim as Nick on ‘Nancy Drew.'.Colin Bentley/The CW
She didn’t give a shot to repress any of it.
She just let me exist as I am.
When I read the books, I wasn’t able to relate to the source material for several reasons.
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You think about how different life would be if that existed in my childhood.
What would bringingTom Swiftto seriesmean to you?
I’m hoping we can take a very long cool cosmic intergalactic journey with this world and with Tom.
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You came into this episode with such a clear vision of who this version of Tom Swift is.
How did you approach playing him?
He’s worked at Google, Uber, doing their algorithms.
If Tom Swift goes forward, what are you most excited for people to see from that series?
We will see Tom go on a journey to find his dad.
We get to see so much cool tech and the sci-fi world.
How is that going to affect Tom moving forward?
It gives him more pride, more confidence.
And in the Black community, there’s three coming outs.
What was it like bringing that part of his story to life?
The father point, that’s something I know verbatim.
Moving forward, I will have to dissect it more, but that meant a lot to me.
I wanted to give it the respect it needed.
These are conversations that need to be had.
Speaking of toxic masculinity, Tom kissing Nick is a great way to flip the script on that!
That was the ultimate scene!
It was a thing of brotherhood to the fullest extent.
What did you think of those scenes?
I’ve watched the show from the pilot, and there was always that tokenism.
I’ve been that.
And immediately Tom peeps that.
That’s what I see when I go into a room.
So that’s what they connect on, and it’s so real.
And George feels that to an extent as well.
We touched on that beautifully and explored those things without hitting it over the head.
Nancy Drewairs Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
ET on the CW.
