

He wears it quite a bit.”įor those who don’t recall, Bello’s distracting fedora became the central point of a line of questioning at TCA in 2011 when the actress defended her character’s trademark hat. But it was a touchstone to create the guy and a nod to the antecedence of his character. There’s a story behind the fedora, which we learn later on in the season. FERGUS: We saw him when he was doing his little screen tests, walking around with the hat, and we thought, Ah, this is going to work. There’s certainly no other fedoras in that world except for Miller’s. Thomas Jane knows what kind of hat his head needs. “We felt like it would be a fun combination in the futuristic world. “The fedora is a classic,” Jane told THR after the panel, noting that he personally selected it.

“It’s that future noir thing, which is a great word - you guys should all write that down.” Thomas Jane to Star in Syfy Thriller ‘The Expanse’ By Whitney Friedlander Rachel Murray/WireImage Hung alum Thomas Jane has been tapped to star in The Expanse, a new thriller from Syfy and. He portrays Josephus Miller on The Expanse and returned as The Investigator in Season 4. “It’s a film noir storyline, at least the way I see it,” Jane told reporters with his trademark smirk. Ragged, in search of something even he can’t identify, Miller remains a dedicated cop with great instincts who discovers a newfound sense of purpose when he’s put in charge of the investigation into a missing heiress.Īnd in every clip of the trailer (seen above), Jane’s beleaguered detective - like Bello’s Prime Suspect NYPD cop - sports a fedora. Miller is a detective for a corporate security force operating as the law in the Belt. When The Expanse begins, Josephus Miller is a secondary protagonist whose journey dovetails with that of James Holden and the Rocinante crew. Ahead of its panel Thursday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, Syfy screened the trailer for its upcoming space drama in which Jane stars as the world-weary Miller, a native of “the Asteroid Belt” between Mars and Jupiter. Thomas Jane's Miller has been one of the most important characters in The Expanse, and while the character's story appeared to end with season 4, the detective could yet make a return in season 5 and beyond.
