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‘Walker: Independence’ star Katherine McNamara: ‘I spoke to Jared Padalecki extensively’

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series “Walker,” (currently in its third season), which is itself a modern reboot of the classic show “Walker, Texas Ranger.” “It’s so refreshing to dive into something that takes place in reality, where you don’t just have superpowers or magic.

You have to rely on humanity [and] it’s an exciting difference,” McNamara, 26, told The Post. McNamara previously starred in the supernatural drama “Shadowhunters,” as well as the superhero series “Arrow” and “The Flash” (and she also appeared in “Batwoman” and “Supergirl”). “I’m a Midwestern girl myself, and there’s a certain nostalgia that comes with a Western,” she said. “It’s a world within our own that has a fantasy that somehow exists within reality.

That’s part of what we’re bringing to ‘Walker: Independence.’ But what really attracted me was the opportunity to take a genre that has so many tropes and aspects that people expect, and [to] see how we can do the unexpected.” After Abby’s husband dies, she travels to the town of Independence, Texas, where she meets an eclectic mix of residents, including con artist Hoyt Rawlins (Matt Barr) and seeks justice for her husband’s death. “Something that was in the forefront of my mind is just the tenacity that it takes to survive in this world,” she said. “Especially for a woman like Abby, who comes from Boston society and a world with as much comfort as you could get in 1870, suddenly in the first 15 minutes of our show, her entire life goes up in flames and she has to start over.“I come from a family of women where it was never a question of ‘family or career.’ It was ‘choose the life you want to have, and work hard for it.’ And that’s exactly what Abby does.

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