It’s so fun to play a guy who’s just trying to figure it out.” He was not very likable in the beginning, but over time we’ve gotten to see why he was like that. It’s been a lot of work for me and the writers, it’s been a group effort. Playing Nancy’s biological father - even if we didn’t know that’s who he was playing at first - has been a joy for Smith, who says, “Ryan’s journey has been the most fun turnaround I’ve ever played. “If there was any way to remind myself that I’m not a teenager anymore, that was it.” “For the first three days of shooting, I was hobbling around like an old geezer pretending to be a teenager,” Smith says. While shooting promotional photos for the episode on Day 1, Smith was asked to do a jump kick with a guitar, which he did successfully… until he landed wrong and threw his back out. Unfortunately, reality has a way of humbling us sometimes. The chance to relive our glory days one more time was amazing.” The first take we did was Scott and I speeding down the road in this suped-up car.
(We do, and we do!) “So I cranked it in my trailer as I’m getting the jersey on, I’m spiking my hair up and I’m ready to go. If you know the movie, you know the song,” he says.
“I was getting dressed on Day 1 in my trailer and I was like, ‘I’m going to put on the Motocrossed theme song,’ this song ‘We’re At the Top of the World’ by Juliana Theory.
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Smith, who played a pro racer in the aforementioned Disney movie, says Ryan spends quite a bit of time around motorcycles in the episode, while there are also little nods to Scott Wolf’s role on Party of Five. “She was like, ‘A lot of people who watch the show might not know or remember, but their parents might, so we thought it would be fun to do a standalone episode where you guys become your teenage selves again.’ I was immediately hooked.”
“She came to me and said, ‘We have these two dads that were teenage heartthrobs, and we’ve never really touched on that at all,'” Smith recalls. And he knew it would be from the moment showrunner Melinda Hsu Taylor pitched him the idea. “The Gambit of the Tangled Souls” (The CW, 9/8c) turns Nancy’s world upside down when her dads essentially revert to their teenage selves, resulting in one of Riley Smith‘s favorite episodes of television he’s ever done in his career.
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