{"id":169395,"date":"2025-05-20T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/who-will-play-ryan-phillippes-brother-christian-in-motorheads-season-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:30:59","slug":"who-will-play-ryan-phillippes-brother-christian-in-motorheads-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/who-will-play-ryan-phillippes-brother-christian-in-motorheads-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Play Ryan Phillippe&#8217;s Brother Christian in Motorheads Season 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The entire first season of <em>Motorheads<\/em> centered around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/ryan-phillippe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ryan Phillippe<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s mysterious \u2014 and missing \u2014 onscreen brother Christian Maddox, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/us-weeklys-2025-tv-wishlist-for-bridgerton-the-rookie-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who does the cast want to see<\/a> fill the role in season 2?<\/p>\n<p>During the Prime Video series, which premiered on Tuesday, May 20, Logan\u2019s (Phillippe) brother Christian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/spring-tv-preview-2025-pulse-ransom-canyon-the-handmaids-tale-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was seen in flashbacks before<\/a> disappearing after a botched heist. The season ended by hinting that adult Christian could still be alive \u2014 and the show\u2019s stars <strong>Michael Cimino, Melissa Collazo, Uriah Shelton, Nicolas Cantu, Mia Healey, Josh Macqueen <\/strong>and<strong> Drake Rodger<\/strong> have some ideas as to who could fill his mysterious shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Both Collazo, 24, and Cantu, 21, floated the idea of <strong>Hayden Christensen<\/strong> joining the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love it if it was Hayden Christensen,\u201d Shelton, 28, exclusively told <em>Us Weekly<\/em> during the press junket. \u201cI would have a hard time not making Star Wars jokes \u2014 but I feel like he\u2019s used to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/most-memorable-tv-siblings-through-the-years\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/most-memorable-tv-siblings-through-the-years\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Most Memorable TV Siblings Through the Years<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFrom The CW\u2019s Riverdale to Netflix\u2019s Stranger Things, viewers have witnessed many memorable TV sibling bonds over the years. Stranger Things, which debuted in 2016, explored Jonathan Byers\u2019 (Charlie Heaton) search for his younger brother, Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), in the first season. As the hit Netflix series approached its final episodes, the brothers grew [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile Cimino, 25, pitched <strong>Ethan Hawke<\/strong> \u2014 even though he is older than Phillippe, 50, adding, \u201cJust as an actor that I would love to work: Ethan Hawke. I would die to work with Ethan Hawke and for him to be my onscreen dad. That would be so sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macqueen, 23, suggested <strong>James Spader<\/strong> to <em>Us<\/em>, while Rodger, 26, circled back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/will-drake-rodger-girlfriend-meg-donnelly-work-together-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his<em> The Winchesters<\/em> costar <strong>Jensen Ackles<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love Jensen. He would be fun. I feel like Jensen and Ryan could play siblings,\u201d Rodger added. \u201cI just don\u2019t know if Jensen could play Ryan\u2019s younger sibling but [we can pretend].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Motorheads \u201cfollows a group of outsiders in a once-thriving Rust Belt town as they form an unlikely friendship over a mutual love of automobiles.\u201d In addition to the main cast, Phillippe\u2019s son, Deacon, was cast in the role of a younger Christian. (<strong>Nathalie Kelley<\/strong> and <strong>Matt Lanter<\/strong> make up the rest of the adult cast.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so unique to be in a situation like this where you\u2019re both working on a show with really good people,\u201d Phillippe exclusively told<em> Us<\/em>\u00a0at the show\u2019s Los Angeles premiere earlier this month. \u201cIt definitely wasn\u2019t lost on either of us. There were times when we would look at each other and just be like, \u2018Can you believe that we\u2019re actually doing this?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Motorheads executive producers <strong>John A. Norris<\/strong> and <strong>Jason Seagraves<\/strong> recalled the process of bringing Deacon, 21, onto the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve known Ryan for quite a while now, so to actually get to work with him and see how professional he is and he comes to work prepared every single day,\u201d Seagraves shared with <em>Us<\/em>. \u201cHe just brought so much heart to it and [we] couldn\u2019t be more fortunate to have him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norris, meanwhile, opened up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/ryan-phillippe-was-not-involved-in-son-deacon-being-cast-on-motorheads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how Phillippe supported his son<\/a>, emphasizing that no strings were pulled in Deacon\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHim showing up [to set] \u2014 not to play Logan \u2014 but because his son was there was really sweet. He really was not involved in the hiring of Deacon,\u201d Norris told <em>Us<\/em>. \u201cWe sort of kept it from him for a little while. Then we came to him and yeah, he would show up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norris continued: \u201cHe just didn\u2019t show up the night that [Deacon] had a kiss scene, but it was just super sweet. He loves that kid so much and it shows. And him showing up as the proud dad was pretty great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Motorheads<\/em> is currently streaming on Prime Video.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/who-will-play-ryan-phillippes-brother-christian-in-motorheads-season-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire first season of Motorheads centered around Ryan Phillippe\u2018s mysterious \u2014 and missing \u2014 onscreen brother Christian Maddox, but who does the cast want to see fill the role in season 2? During the Prime Video series, which premiered on Tuesday, May 20, Logan\u2019s (Phillippe) brother Christian was seen in flashbacks before disappearing after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}