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Say hello to the new Reacher
How JACK REACHER star Alan Ritchson is tackling the iconic attributes of the literary man mountain
Clockwise from left: Someone’s been to the gym... Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher in the upcoming series; Malcolm Goodwin as Detective Oscar Finlay; A bound Reacher shares a cuppa with Officer Roscoe Conklin (Willa Fitzgerald).
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THE SIZE
In Lee Child’s bestselling crime-thriller book series, antihero Jack Reacher — an ex-military police major who now roams America, going from place to place and invariably getting involved in all sorts of shenanigans — is 6’5” and 250lbs of eye-bogglingly oversized muscle. He has hands the size of turkeys and chest muscles so thick that they once stopped a bullet. The previous incumbent in the role, Tom Cruise, who starred in two Reacher films, was famously not quite a match for Reacher’s physical attributes. Ritchson meets the criteria. Just.