{"id":804567,"date":"2026-08-06T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804567\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:54:12","slug":"anna-pigeons-tracy-spiridakos-learned-horseback-riding-for-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804567\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Pigeon’s Tracy Spiridakos Learned Horseback Riding for Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracy Spiridakos didn’t want to wing it for her titular role in Anna Pigeon.<\/p>\n

That’s why the 38-year-old quickly started researching “survival stuff” to play\u00a0her park ranger character in the new TV show, based on the crime novels by Nevada Barr.<\/p>\n

“I had to learn how to ride a horse first and foremost,” Spiridakos exclusively told E! correspondent Will Marfuggi<\/a> at the USA Network show’s Los Angeles premiere on Aug. 5. “That was kind of the biggest one.”<\/p>\n

Though the actress also knew the “basics” of wilderness exploration thanks to various camping trips she took as a child, her experience portraying Detective Hailey Upton in Chicago P.D. didn’t necessarily help her get into character this time around.<\/p>\n

“If anything, I had to kind of unlearn some of the stuff that I knew from playing a Chicago police officer for such a long time,” Spiridakos explained. “There’s such a comfort in kicking down a door, and I think that’s something that Anna isn’t as comfortable doing. She doesn’t do that all the time, so that was a little bit more pulling back some of that knowledge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tracy Spiridakos didn’t want to wing it for her titular role in Anna Pigeon. That’s why the 38-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-804567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}