India, Sept. 10 -- For Tewfik Jallab, the success of Paris Has Fallen has brought recognition, but also a challenge he is keenly aware of: not letting one role define him. As he returns as Vincent Taleb in the second season, Paris Has Fallen, Jallab is already thinking beyond the action-hero image the franchise could cement. The actor says the global response to the first season was beyond what he had expected, even as the long shooting schedule means he experiences much of that success from a distance.

"When you do a job and when you're trying to do as good as you can, people want to lock you in, especially like action hero or whatever. And I'm trying to break this lock as often as I could," he tells us.

The response to the first seaso...