Tommy Molto won’t be available to kick around anymore: Peter Sarsgaard says that he won’t be returning as the high-strung prosecutor for the second season of Presumed Innocent on Apple TV+.
Sarsgaard’s much-maligned Molto went after Jake Gyllenhaal’s Rusty Sabich in David E. Kelley’s adaptation of the Scott Turow novel.
“I’m not really that interested in sequels,” Sarsgaard told IndieWire. “I think I’ve only ever done one season of anything. I think I’m a one-season person … I tell my kids this sometimes, maybe I’ve done 90, 100 different things over the years between movies, TV shows, and plays. I say, ‘I’m very good at saying hello and saying goodbye.’ There’s a very valuable thing in saying goodbye because then you have to look for another source of inspiration and then you change.”
Earlier this month, Apple announced it has ordered a second season of the legal thriller, with Kelley, J.J. Abrams and Gyllenhaal returning as executive producers and Turow as co-executive producer.
The news came a month into the run of Presumed Innocent, which became the most viewed drama of all time on Apple, per the streamer. The final episode dropped July 24.
There are no details about Season 2 beyond the fact that it “will unfold around a suspenseful, brand new case.” Gyllenhaal’s Rusty is not a recurring character in Turow’s books, so it is unclear whether the Road House star would return as an actor.
Presumed Innocent has a book sequel, the 2011 Innocent, which again pits Rusty and Tommy Molto against each other 20 years later after the mysterious death of Rusty’s wife.