VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-20
“I think as the stakes got higher and higher, his whole thing is he takes the risk and puts his friends before himself,”
Rudy Pankow · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-20
Rudy Pankow explained JJ's motivation leading up to his character's death.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.