SPOILER ALERT: This story consists of key plotlines and particulars from “I Will Discover You,” now streaming on Netflix.
Sam Worthington has his spouse to thank for her function in one in every of Netflix’s most profitable collection, “I Will Discover You.”
The collection, the newest adaptation from novelist Harlan Coben, sees Worthington as David Burroughs, a person convicted and despatched to jail for brutally beating his younger son Matthew to dying. After spending 5 years behind bars, David’s sister-in-law Rachel – a Boston Globe reporter performed by Britt Decrease – helps him escape to show that not solely is he harmless, however that his son remains to be alive. The forged is rounded out by Milo Ventimiglia as Hayden, Rachel’s extraordinarily rich ex-boyfriend, and Madeline Stowe as her seemingly sinister mom. Logan Browning and Chi McBride play FBI brokers looking for David.
“My spouse is a Harlan fan, and he or she was the one who stated, ‘It’s important to take this name,'” Worthington remembers of being first approached by producers for the mission. “I stated, ‘Why?’ And he or she goes, “Since you do not do stuff that I like to observe, and I want to watch that.” In order that’s the place it began, to be sincere. It was his intuition.
As with all Coben collection, there are extra twists and turns than one can rely. I used to be instantly hooked and watched all eight episodes in a single weekend.
“We obtained the primary copies of it,” Worthington stated. “My spouse and 11-year-old son obtained aggravated similar to you. They did not cease.”
Netflix introduced that “I Will Discover You” was seen 24 million occasions in its first 4 days, making it the streamer’s largest collection premiere of 2026. “Harlan stated to me, ‘When you calculate that, for instance there are three folks in a family, that is about 60 million folks,'” Worthington stated. “I believed it was fairly superb.”
David Burroughs is a person of few phrases. His mission is to search out his son, and he’ll do no matter it takes to realize it. In different phrases, David turns into one thing of an motion hero. Nevertheless, Worthington sees issues somewhat in a different way. He requested Coben and the producers to take away a number of of his traces. “Give publicity to others and permit David to be the emotion, to really feel the story by means of David,” says Worthington. “Oddly sufficient, it is much less heroic than I feel within the e book than they – the producers and Harlan – initially thought as a result of I at all times needed Britt’s character, Rachel, to be the hero and permit David to be the damsel in misery. I feel they discovered it very unusual as a result of they have been on the lookout for a extra heroic primary character, however I simply thought it was a distinct technique to method this style, and it allowed me to to not let myself be overwhelmed by the pulp and the dramatic turns it takes.”
Worthington was prepared to do most of his personal stunts, however he wasn’t allowed to due to his “Avatar” commitments. “There have been plenty of issues I could not do due to my Disney ‘Avatar’ contract,” he stated. “They stated, ‘You are not allowed to try this.’ I stated, ‘Why not? I’m enthusiastic. I am prepared. I can do it. They stated, “James Cameron gained’t allow you to.” »
As “I Will Discover You” unfolds, David and Rachel change into nearer. At occasions, hints of romance brew. The finale features a picture of the 2 holding fingers. “She’s his sister-in-law, so I at all times discovered that very unusual,” Worthington stated of viewers introducing the duo. “I feel we most likely pushed again on any huge romantic kisses due to that reasoning. I feel it could have change into a telenovela quite than a melodrama. Perhaps it was an excessive amount of. However ultimately, I like that there was this straightforward gesture as a result of the story is about hope.”
Hayden is ultimately revealed as Matthew’s kidnapper. He’s so determined to maintain Matthew as his son that he’s even prepared to kill anybody who will get in his method, together with a detective whom he violently murders with a rock and his mom, whom he fatally shoots. “The present truly begins out fairly naturalistic, after which it turns into operatic,” Worthington explains. “The second Hayden kills his mom and kills a detective from one other nation, we all know we’re in one other style.”
As for a second season, Worthington jokes, it might embrace Matthew needing plenty of remedy, not solely due to the trauma of the kidnapping, but in addition as a result of he has to transition from a really pampered and rich life to working-class Boston. Worthington laughs: “You took this little one away from this huge wealthy home – is the kid going to be resentful in direction of David?