24's Jeffrey Nordling Disappointed In His Character's Death - 4/22/09

Jeffrey Nordling only has one problem with the fact that his character, FBI agent Larry Moss, was killed off in Monday, April 13’s episode of 24 — now both of the characters that tried to stop Jack Bauer from using torture (Moss and James Morrison’s Bill Buchanan) have been killed.

“My only problem with it (is that) you kill off the two characters that are the moral compasses in the show. The ones that are saying, ‘No, you can’t do this,’” Nordling said.

“There is somebody there that stands for that, and Larry Moss stood for that. Every time Jack or Renee (Walker, played by Annie Wersching) would say, ‘We don’t have a choice,’ he would say, ‘Yes, of course you have a choice. You obey the rule of law; that’s what your choice is.’ To kill off those two characters, I find disappointing.”

Nordling said he thought his character is the most realistic one on the show.

“We went to NCTC, the National Counter Terrorism Center, and we met a bunch of people with the FBI. And hands down, they are all Larry Moss. There is not a Jack Bauer there. They obey the rule of law. ... I was e-mailing back and forth with one FBI agent, and he was saying that Renee would have been suspended in Episode 2. ... For our story’s sake, Larry starts to soften a bit and compromise a bit, but in reality, he is the most realistic character in the show.”

To hear more of what Nordling had to say — including his comparisons between Moss and his role as coach Ted Orion in D3: The Mighty Ducks — a listen to the latest NewsOK.com 24 Podcast with Jason Kersey and Ben Walnick.

Link: NewsOK.com

Comment: I was disappointed in Larry's demise as well. He was a good character. But with 24, sometimes good characters get killed off, unfortunately. (24FanForever)