We are going to meet Russell Shaw this season, and the casting couldn’t be better.
Jensen Ackles has been cast as the estranged brother of Justin Hartley‘s Colter Shaw on Tracker. (Fun fact: Both starred on Smallville, but at different times.) Hartley shared the news himself with a fun video on Instagram featuring Ackles, and TV Insider has learned he will appear in the May 12 episode.
In “Off the Books,” Colter is forced to team up with his estranged brother, Russell, who enlists his help to track down a former army buddy who’s gone missing after several weeks of paranoid behavior. The investigation takes the brothers into the world of Special Forces missions, shady off-the-books programs and conspiracy theories, all while they contend with their family’s past.
Hartley starts the video by thanking everyone for watching and the response to the show. “We’ve been talking about Russell Shaw, my brother, all season this family drama that’s been going on between Colter and Russell, and we finally came up with what I think is the perfect casting choice,” he says. “This person knocks it out of the park every time.” You can then hear someone in the background playing a video game, and that person is Ackles. Watch the full video below.
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