![]() ![]() ![]() Reed recalls having “long talks about Malory’s motivation” with Walter and eventually evolving the matriarch from being Archer’s main villain to the complicated mother figure and boss that fans have come to know and love over the past 11 seasons. The next day, her agent called and asked, “How about the actual Jessica Walter?”įrom then on, Walter’s presence played an integral part in the development of the series. The four-sentence character description ended with, “Think Jessica Walter,” who Reed was a fan of ever since he saw her in Clint Eastwood’s 1971 thriller, Play Misty for Me. Soon after the pilot episode was written, the series sent out casting calls for the role of Malory, the overbearing owner of the top spy agency where her son, Sterling, also worked as a secret agent. “That’s when the show sort of clicked for me, and started becoming something that wasn’t just a James Bond knockoff.” “I was like, ‘Oh, what if M was James Bond’s mom? That could be really weird,’” he recalls. When Reed was developing the series, it was Judi Dench’s turn as M in the James Bond films that inspired what Archer would eventually become. Jon Benjamin (Sterling Archer), Aisha Tyler (Lana Kane) and Judy Greer (Cheryl Tunt) reflect on casting Walter as Malory, what she brought to the role, her long overdue nomination and how the series will pay tribute to her. Over several heartfelt, laugh-filled conversations with ET, creator Adam Reed, executive producer Casey Willis as well as stars H. ![]() And the recognition comes ahead of the series’ return with season 12, marking her last original performance as the woman who both delighted and terrorized many. After she died, the actress was honored with her first Emmy nomination for her work on Archer. ![]()
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