WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Jack Ryan season 2 that may influence your enjoyment in discovering the plotlines. Read at your own risk.
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is going to be a different person in Jack Ryan season 2. Actor John Krasinski revealed some of the things about his character that viewers might expect when the show returns.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Krasinski revealed that his character could never go back to being an analyst who just stays on his desk while the other CIA operatives catch the bad guys. In Jack Ryan season 2, Jack's awareness has been opened, and now he has to be a part of where the action is.
Jack Ryan season 2 will take the lead character on a mission in the U.K., Russia, and Venezuela to follow a plot he has uncovered regarding the Venezuelan president. Along the way, he reunites with his former boss Jim Greer (played by Wendell Pierce) and meets agents from different countries, including Noomi Rapace (as Harry Baumann).
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the casting of Rapace in July 2018. Her character has been described as a "highly capable, sharply intelligent and intoxicatingly charming agent" for Germany's intelligence.
"I want to team up with her so bad, and probably have feelings for her, but also am constantly aware this is espionage," Krasinski hinted about the kind of relationship he'll have with Rapace's character. "This isn't a date at the mall. This can go south at any time."
Pierce, on the other hand, shared, in an interview with TV Insider, that while his character has been stationed in Russia at the end of Jack Ryan season 1, Jim and Jack will eventually re-team to work on the same case. Fans speculations suggest that, while Jack will be tracking a suspicious shipment of weapons in Venezuela, Jim would be doing the same but tracking the source of that weapon in Russia.
"There's a synergy of what we're both working on, where the two storylines come together," Piercer revealed. "Jack and Greer assist each other and discover a network of people who don't have [America's] best interests at heart."
Meanwhile, the culture minister of Venezuela, Ernesto Villegas, has called out Amazon for promoting an invasion by U.S. forces in a South American nation. Villegas said in social media post that Jack Ryan season 2 was being used as a propaganda machine under the guise of entertainment.
The release of Jack Ryan season 2 comes amid reports of U.S. sanctions that have affected Venezuela's oil industry. Officials of the South American government accused the U.S. government in real life of planning to invade Venezuela to plunder its resources while a social, political and economic crisis is happening.
Amazon has made no comment about Venezuela's accusations. Jack Ryan season 2 will drop on the streamer on Nov. 1, 2019.
