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'Ride or Die' puts an assassin's handler in the comedy crosshairs
Calam Lynch plays assassin handler Sam in Prime Video's 'Ride or Die,' a role that forces his character to confront the moral weight of a career he once found fun.
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NEW YORK, July 29 (UPI) -- Calam Lynch plays a rogue assassin's handler in Prime Video's new action-comedy "Ride or Die," a role that forces the character to confront the moral weight of a career he once found fun.
Lynch, 31, whose credits include Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, Bridgerton and Sweetpea, said his character Sam works at the Assassination Agency where Judith (Hannah Waddingham) is employed as a killer. Sam is her handler and technically her boss, though Lynch said Waddingham might object to that framing.
The show follows Judith as her cover is blown while trying to protect her unsuspecting best friend Debbie (Octavia Spencer), whose politician husband David (Jamie Parker) is murdered after stealing millions from a crime syndicate. David's death is not Judith's doing, which complicates the plot further.
Sam appears early in the show speaking sternly to Judith, reminding her to keep a low profile on missions or risk termination.
"What's happened at the ski resort is the last in a long line of things that Judith has sort of done her own way, rather than the agency way," Lynch told UPI in a Zoom interview Tuesday. "It was fun to think about what those [prior infractions] might have been."
Helping Sam clean up Judith's messes and facilitate her escapes with Debbie is Queenie, Sam's tech-savvy partner played by Savannah Steyn. Good Boy and Intergalactic actress Steyn, 29, described Queenie as the go-to woman for assassins' weapons and gadgets.
"Their relationship predates when we start the show," Lynch said of Sam and Queenie. "They've known each other for a while and I guess they get put in situations where they are forced to, maybe, get closer and examine their relationship, and then there's tension, but also closeness that comes out of that."