Jensen Ackles<\/a>) is going to go off the rails. Bell might be needed to rein him in.<\/strong><\/p>\nYeah, I mean, there\u2019s every chance that we are going to feel a lot more of the connections and the fire that can be ignited because of the chemistry of this task force. We\u2019re seeing it in different ways building already, and I don\u2019t know how Bell will fit into that or how he might not, but it\u2019s definitely going to be an interesting thing to see how it plays out.<\/p>\n\n\nEric Dane as Nathan Blythe, Joe Dinicol as Ryan Fitzgerald, Uli Latukefu as Luke Finau, Jensen Ackles as Mark Meachum, Jessica Camacho as Amber Oliveras, and Elliot Knight as Keyonte Bell \u2014 ‘Countdown’ Season 1 Finale<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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So you\u2019ve been talking about Bell\u2019s ultimate goal, director of the FBI, but has working on the task force changed that at all for him because he\u2019s now seeing this other side of the job?<\/strong><\/p>\nYes, that\u2019s a great question. I do think that the time on the task force has illuminated a broader scope of how this job can be done than how Bell has typically focused on it. I think he\u2019s traditionally very by the book federal agent committed to the cause who wants to do things right and is not interested in bending the rules to suit him in any way. That doesn\u2019t help improve himself and his ability to do the job well. But as he gets closer to this team, sees their ability to perform and succeed, but also some of the strategies that do involve bending the rules a little and they do involve not being as straight and narrow, I do think that that has an impact on how he feels, not about achieving his goal, but how he might get there. It\u2019s possibly going to involve more than he\u2019s maybe prepared for or not. I don\u2019t know how that\u2019s going to play out, but it\u2019s definitely going to make that journey a lot more surprising and a lot less of a guarantee that it\u2019s going to be smooth.<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s also the fact that if he\u2019s seeing that he enjoys being in the field, that\u2019s a desk job, he may not want that as soon as he thought he might.<\/strong><\/p>\n100%. I think if anyone told him he\u2019s going to be stuck at a desk, he would hate that. And I would say as Elliot, I would not be a huge fan of that, either. [Laughs<\/em>] I definitely share the passion of wanting to be out there getting things done and being a part of the action, but some things are larger than just the enjoyment of the moment. I think that would be such an achievement \u2014 it would be more than just what his experience was in the job. It would be about what that means and empowers outside of himself the same way, honestly, that I feel about any roles that I get to do as an actor and including this one. It\u2019s not just about what my experience is making it, which has been amazing honestly. But it\u2019s also about what this could empower outside of my own experience. And I do feel like Bell has a similar value system. He will see the brightness of the torch that he can ignite if he reaches that height in his field of work. And that doesn\u2019t burn just for his own warmth. It burns for everybody else to see from whatever distance.<\/p>\nAnd also, Bell is the type of person who does consider that.<\/strong><\/p>\nExactly, yeah, he would. He cares about what he does, and even though he\u2019s there to prove himself, he\u2019s not in the job because it\u2019s self-serving. It\u2019s the literal opposite. It\u2019s about serving your community, your people, it\u2019s the people around you. I think if he was more selfishly inclined, this would not be the line of work that he would be a part of. There are many other things he could be doing. And also, he has a legacy to uphold. And I do think that there\u2019s either a drive or pressure or both there to not drop the baton. He has to keep this going. And if there\u2019s a way to make his ancestors and his father and grandfather before him proud, that is the most obvious way that he can do that. And so I don\u2019t think that that goal is going to disappear anytime soon.<\/p>\n
There needs to be a second season after that ending.<\/strong><\/p>\n[Laughs<\/em>] Agreed.<\/p>\nAssuming there is, what would you like to explore with Bell both on and off the job?<\/strong><\/p>\nI am really intrigued to learn more about Bell as a person. I think there\u2019s a very strong sense of his identity at work, but as we see with all the other characters, the cracks are underneath the surface, and they\u2019re the most interesting parts of the people. Bell seems relatively to have very few cracks or close to none, but obviously, the truth of that is going to be different. So I would love to see him a bit more raw and exposed and also to see what some of his challenges and weaknesses are and see him struggle with something that\u2019s very personal to him that isn\u2019t work adjacent. That\u2019s one of my favorite things about the show, and I think what makes it different from other shows in this genre, is we are really exploring the full complexities and humanities of these characters. It\u2019s the fun, it\u2019s the jokes, it\u2019s the camaraderie, it\u2019s also the darkness and the secrets and how they all combine into one. I want to see more colors of Bell\u2019s rainbow, I\u2019ll put it that way.<\/p>\n
Countdown<\/em>, Streaming Now, Prime Video<\/strong><\/p>\nRead the latest entertainment news on TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know that Bell (Elliot Knight) has one goal \u2014 director of the FBI \u2014 but the entire task force will have the same one after\u00a0Countdown\u2018s Season 1 finale: Find Oliveras (Jessica Camacho). The finale ended with the sniper the team is after, Todd (Grant Harvey), kidnapping her and telling her to run across a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[347030,364326,364328,364325,364329,362882,364327],"class_list":["post-2002300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bell","tag-director-of-the-fbi","tag-elizabeth-morris","tag-elliot-knight","tag-find-oliveras","tag-jessica-camacho","tag-task-force"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/How-Has-Being-on-\u2018Countdowns-Task-Force-Changed-Bell.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}