Widow’s Bay star Matthew Rhys jokingly revealed to E! News his plans to do a crossover with partner Keri Russell’s show The Diplomat at Brunswick Corporation’s media day at Brooklyn Bridge Marina.
Widow’s Bay could be the future home of a world leadership summit if Matthew Rhys has his way.
Though he and longtime partner Keri Russell haven’t really shared the screen since The Americans came to an end in 2018, the Widow’s Bay star admitted they would jump at the chance to appear on the other’s Emmy nominated series. Or, for that matter, even join forces.
“I would be on The Diplomat in a heartbeat,” Rhys told E! News in an exclusive interview. “I think she would be in Widow's Bay in a heartbeat. We just need to start getting the creatives—Actually, I would really do a crossover episode whereby there's some kind of G7 on Widow's Bay.”
And that concept may just be coming together in the Brothers & Sisters alum’s mind. “Yeah, that would happen,” he continued. “That would definitely happen. Let's work towards the crossover, the merging of the two.”
Case in point, many a world leader has enjoyed some summer fun in New England, not to mention the islands—both haunted and not—just off the coast. Though it would remain to be seen how Russell’s no-nonsense Ambassador Kate Wyler and his beleaguered mayor Tom Loftis would cross paths, Rhys already has one storyline mapped out.
For the fate of Rufus Sewell’s Hal Wyler, he quipped, “He'd have to die.”
Until that comes to fruition, however, Rhys firmly has his sights set on some other wishes for season two, which creator Katie Dippold and the writers have just begun mapping out. Chief among them a “Dracula-Frankenstein mashup” kind of monster for Tom to contend with.
Plus, more time on a boat—preferably on the water itself as opposed to the soundstage on they filmed the fan-favorite “Seasickness” episode chock full of Jaws homages.
After all, that itself was a manifestation for the actor, who had a vision of spending time aboard a vessel.
“And then the episode came where Tom has no experience of being on a boat,” Rhys mused. “He's the one wearing the full life jacket and is very nervous on the boat. So that was always a little trickier for me because I had to act being bad on a boat. It wasn't trickier. It was more annoying, if anything.”
But with Tom’s first onscreen boating excursion in the rearview, the Beast in Me star now has his sights set on a new seafaring adventure for Widow’s Bay’s top brass.
“I think Tom Loftis just being alone in a boat would be his nightmare,” Rhys explained, “and having to figure out how, either how to operate it or how to navigate or how to make his way home. In fact, I might pitch that idea. I think it's a great idea. That's a real horror story for him and could be a lot of fun for me to film.”
But given the 51-year-old’s dedication to his boating community, he’s willing to concede a more positive outcome, in which viewers are “seeing how he overcomes it,” Rhys joked. “How what a joyous moment the end is, and when he realizes boating is actually great.”
In all seriousness, though, working on the horror comedy allowed him to marry his lengthy acting career with his even longer dedication to time on the water.