Tracker’s Fiona Rene Weighs in on Reenie and Colter’s Future: He ‘May or May Not Fit Those Goals’ (Exclusive)
The will-they-won’t — or yes-they-won’t — dynamic between Reenie Greene (Fiona Rene) and Colter Shaw (Justin Hartley) on Tracker isn’t ending anytime soon.
“Fans can expect to hear more stories like that, but I don’t think the writers’ room is going to cram it down your throat in one episode,” Rene, 36, told PEOPLE shortly after completing 11 escape rooms in one day. (Is that a record? Someone called it Guinness!) “We’re going to learn over time.”
On the CBS hit, now in its second season, Colter is a “bounty man” who uses his survival and tracking skills to help find missing people for whom someone has a bounty on their head. Along the way, he often gets into trouble with the law, and that’s when Reenie, a lawyer, comes in to save the day. Little is known about Colter and Reenie’s past, though their chemistry is undeniable.
“There’s been a lot of dribbling so far,” Rene says of Reenie’s backstory. “In episode four, we learn a big part of Reenie’s goals and what Colter may or may not have achieved.”
In episode four, Reenie is in Napa for a leadership summit with a date, her former co-worker Elliott Rush (Michael Rady), when she calls Colter in to help find a missing software company partner. Colter gives her a hard time, but eventually tells her he hopes Elliott knows how lucky he is.
The episode also features an update on Reenie and Colter’s brother Russell (Jensen Ackles), who has made no secret of his interest in the lawyer. Their much-talked-about dinner date goes ahead, but Reenie clearly isn’t into it. “It’s not like that between us,” she tells Colter.
“I mean, we can’t argue that he’s charming and attractive, but Reenie has some high standards,” Rene says of Russell. “Too high, I think. Like I don’t know if Reenie can live up to her own standards. I think he’s going to have to work really hard to get to a place where she’s going to give in to that.”
Rene laughed as she added, “Unless it’s a night of debauchery and she, you know…”
When asked if she thought Reenie might have such a night, Rene concluded, “Women who are workaholics, they have to have a moment where they let go. I would love to see that moment.”
Read more about Rene on Tracker as well as her other hit show, The Lincoln Lawyer, on Netflix.
STAFF: You’ve been so busy between Lincoln Lawyer and Fire Country and Tracker. Looking back on the past two years, how does that feel?
FIONA RENE: Honestly, I’ve never run a marathon, but I feel like I spent all my time preparing for this marathon and now I’m in the middle of it, and I don’t have time to celebrate anything. I think even emotionally. And I think that as humans, we should probably slow down and so, and I should take my own advice right now and just clap my 14-year-old self and say, “Hey girl, we’re doing it!” It’s fun and I’m grateful, but it’s happening so fast that sometimes it’s hard to stop and smell the damn roses.
So that 14-year-old Fiona, who was she? What did she want that she was so excited about today?
I think just saying that I can pay my bills by being an actor is a difficult feat in itself. But then there’s a part of me that’s human and we always want more, we always want to raise the bar. So it’s like, “Okay, more roles?” I mean, I watched the first four episodes of Lincoln Lawyer whenever it came out because I hadn’t seen anything, and episode four, we see my character become a little, um, she’s a mess. And it’s been really cool to look at the two characters that I’m playing right now: one character who’s a mess and another character who’s at the bottom of the barrel, and to relate to both of those characters. That’s the only thing that I’ve done lately is, “Dude, you’re both of those things, and that’s okay.” We’re the biggest bitches and we’re also the biggest mess, and that’s okay.
What’s one of the best things that’s happened since you’ve gotten to this point in your career?
Ms. Brown, my second grade teacher from Shawnee, Oklahoma, sent me a message on Facebook and said, “Hey, I really wish we could have an autographed picture or something that we could put in the classroom to show the kids in Shawnee, Oklahoma that their dreams can come true.” She texted me last week and I texted her back like, “Give me your address.
