Joel Bissonenette as Pavel Tokarev
Near the bottom of an interview with Joel Bissonnette (the actor who plays Pavel Tokarev – Renee’s sniper) said that “fans are pissed” at him. Apparently he wasn’t a 24 viewer and thus didn’t know how beloved Renee Walker was. Looks like he quickly found out.
Joel also appears in 24 this season playing a Russian assassin – you can see him on the hot Fox series tonight and during the next couple of weeks. A few weeks back, the Russian bad guy played by Joel killed Jack Bauer’s love interest, Renee Walker.
“I killed a very popular character. I hadn’t been watching the show so I didn’t realize (she was popular). They go to his apartment, they have sex, finally the tension for the audience is relieved, and then I shoot her.
“Yeah, some people are p—ed.”
Source: Montreal Gazette
What a doodoo head. Subtract points for not watching 24 and subtract even more points for not knowing how cool Renee is. I can’t wait until Jack Bauer kills this guy!
Ya I can’t wait for this guy to die but I feel like Renee isn’t truely dead I’m so sad she is gone!!!:(
I cannot recall a dumber decision in TV history than the one to kill off Renee. Annie was brilliant playing Renee, and the character had so much depth, was so dark, was so disturbed, so vulnerable, so fragile, so beautiful, so tough, so ruthless, so decent, so complex…what dumb fucks the writers were to toss a once-in-a-lifetime character away as if she’s just another bimbo that got in the way.
Fools. They should never have made such a definitive death scene. They could have kept their options open for the movie by having her “die” with Jack getting pulled away before actually seeing the corpse. I swear, how fucking stupid could they possibly be?
I think they grossly underestimated just how popular and critically acclaimed this character would become, and now they’ll have to do a real stretch in believability to bring her back WHEN they attempt to down the road.
I agree WTF, they way underestimated how popular she had become instead just figuring she was ‘another bimbo that got in the way’. could not put it better myself