‘Lioness’ Star Thad Luckinbill Thinks Series Creator Taylor Sheridan Could Be A “Military Advisor In The Government”: “He’s So Brilliant When It Comes To Geopolitics”

One of the slipperiest characters in Lioness has long been CIA officer Kyle McManus, played by the talented Thad Luckinbill. Over the course of three seasons, we’ve seen McManus and Lioness Station Chief Joe McNamara (Zoe Saldaña) butt heads as much as work together on various missions to keep their country safe. When McNamara is taken by the Russian operatives, McManus springs into action to find her location and bring her back home—by any means necessary. Besides the obvious reasons (military intelligence), why is McManus so motivated to find McNamara? “You can tell by the way it’s written—and definitely by the way Zoe and I play it—that there’s a history between Kyle and Joe,” said Thad Luckinbill. Even though “they fight like brother and sister,” Luckinbill points out that the two have