But Olivera, an optimistic person by default, wasn’t dragged down by the discourse.
They were guiding me, especially when I had my own doubts of what I was capable of."
“We haven’t really covered that in any of the movies.”
‘National Treasure: Edge of History’ poster.Disney +
Then his family moved to England where schools made the Irish seem like the villains.
Marianne’s own family tree goes back to Mexico.
Her great-great-grandmother was among one of the first Mexican families to settle in Arizona.
*Jess (Lisette Olivera_ embarks on a journey to find a lost treasure in ‘National Treasure: Edge of History.'.Disney/Brian Roedel*
It was this shared immigrant experience that became the first kernel forEdge of History.
That’s when we spun it into this story that was not a Ben Gates story."
“She starts to go, ‘Wait!
Harvey Keitel returns as F.B.I. Special Agent Sadusky in ‘National Treasure: Edge of History.'.Disney/Brian Roedel
Maybe I don’t know everything,'” says Marianne.
“I relate to that very heavily.
I’m always trying to figure out where my place is.
Zuri Reed stars as tech-savvy Tasha in ‘National Treasure: Edge of History.'.Disney/Brian Roedel
The reprisal ofHarvey Keitel’s F.B.I.
Special Agent Peter Sadusky from the first twoNational Treasuremovies was a crucial part of the new series.
He’s inEdge of History"a lot,” Marianne confirms.
Justin Bartha reprises Riley Poole alongside Lisette Olivera’s Jess in ‘National Treasure: Edge of History.'.Disney/Brian Roedel
“His presence plays through the whole thing.”
Part of that is the fact that Olivera’s castmate Jake Austin Walker plays Sadusky’s grandson, Liam.
Also among the new generation of treasure-seekers is Zuri Reed as Tasha, Jess’ best friend and roommate.
“She’s really tech savvy and socially conscious.”
It’s especially dangerous for Jess as a Dreamer living in America.
“She’s willing to risk it all to go after that.
“I guess he’s kind of likeJon Voightin a way.”
Voight doesn’t make a return appearance toNational TreasurewithEdge of History.
Neither does Cage orDiane Kruger.
Cormac describes this hypothetical meeting between Ben and Jess as “Tony Stark gets to visit Peter Parker.”
“That’s basically how we saw the relationship if Ben Gates ever showed up,” he adds.
What do I do?’
That’s how our universe is.
We would love to bring any of the other veterans if we get another season.
We have roles for all of them.”
Olivera has “a whole episode” with Bartha, the showrunner says.
“She was like one of them right from the beginning.
It was all so natural.”
“Just reminding me that it was my creative input that won me this role.
It was my heart that I put into this.
I didn’t wanna forget that.
It’s really easy to listen to the voices that wanna tear you down.
It’s not gonna stop me.
It was just being really clear on my intention.
Olivera didn’t want to disappoint herself, either.
The role of Jess meant so much to her, beyond theNational Treasureof it all.
“I wanted to make them proud.”
We felt like everyone could relate to that,” Cormac says.
“A lot of people don’t even know their great-grandparents’ names.
They just don’t go back that far in history, but we’re doing 23andMe for our character.
We felt like everyone watching can go, ‘Oh yeah, I came from somewhere, too.'”
Correction: An earlier version of this story mentioned Cormac Wibberley’s father was an undocumented Irish immigrant.
While he never became an American citizen, he did have a green card.
