On Sunday, the actress officially joins the cast of the ABC drama as Nyla Harper, a former undercover detective turned John Nolan’s (Nathan Fillion) new training officer. Harper steps in to take over for Nolan’s season 1 training officer, Talia Bishop (Afton Williamson), after the actress exited the series amidst claims she was harassed and bullied on set. An official investigation ultimately cleared all parties of wrongdoing.
But Cox is here to inject the series and Nolan’s policing with some new energy. “My character is a wild card, and I don’t know that [Nolan’s] dealt with that,” she teases to EW. As seen in the exclusive clip above, Cox joins the squad in Sunday night’s episode, “Warriors and Guardians.” She’s not just shaking things up for Nolan, but the whole crew as we watch her get off on the wrong foot with Grey (Richard T. Jones) and take some of the shine off Bradford’s (Eric Winter) badge when she dishes out his own bluster right back to him.
Harper is still very much figuring out who she is after spending years deep undercover, but Cox is grateful for that character journey, considering as an actor she had very little time to work out who the character might be. Due to Williamson’s sudden departure, Cox joined the cast in a whirlwind process that went from an audition on a Monday to shooting on a Wednesday. “Nyla Harper doesn’t know who she is anymore, and so I ended up using that,” she says of her efforts to find a way into a character on such short notice.
But Cox is here to inject the series and Nolan’s policing with some new energy. “My character is a wild card, and I don’t know that [Nolan’s] dealt with that,” she teases to EW. As seen in the exclusive clip above, Cox joins the squad in Sunday night’s episode, “Warriors and Guardians.” She’s not just shaking things up for Nolan, but the whole crew as we watch her get off on the wrong foot with Grey (Richard T. Jones) and take some of the shine off Bradford’s (Eric Winter) badge when she dishes out his own bluster right back to him.
Harper is still very much figuring out who she is after spending years deep undercover, but Cox is grateful for that character journey, considering as an actor she had very little time to work out who the character might be. Due to Williamson’s sudden departure, Cox joined the cast in a whirlwind process that went from an audition on a Monday to shooting on a Wednesday. “Nyla Harper doesn’t know who she is anymore, and so I ended up using that,” she says of her efforts to find a way into a character on such short notice.