‘FBI: Most Wanted’ Star Edwin Hodge Was Thrilled Steven Williams Was Cast as His Father: ‘The X-Files Was My Jam’

The character appears to have “some shadiness” in his past, Hodge tells TheWrap ahead of Tuesday night’s episode

Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon and Steven Williams as Ray Cannon Sr. in the “Foosteps” episode of “FBI: Most Wanted”
Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon and Steven Williams as Ray Cannon Sr. in the “Foosteps” episode of “FBI: Most Wanted” (CREDIT: Mark Schafer/CBS)

Edwin Hodge was thrilled when he learned that Steven Williams of “The Chi” and ‘The X-Files” had been cast to play Ray Cannon Sr, the father of his character Ray, in Tuesday’s episode of “FBI: Most Wanted.”

“I found out about a week prior and I immediately was excited by the choice,” Hodge told TheWrap ahead of the episode’s debut. “‘The X Files’ was my jam.”

In the episode, titled “Footsteps,” Ray learns that a pair of bombers is targeting cops from a 20-year-old case, which includes his father. Could his dad be next in line? TheWrap spoke with Hodge about how Ray’s idol worship of his father is called into question, and how we can expect more personal storylines from all the characters in Season 5 of the CBS procedural.

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