Eric McCormack Loves everything with secrets – and it’s just as good because his new show Nine corpses in a Mexican corpse hall is full of them.
The 61 -year -old actor plays Kevin in the new MGM+ series, which follows nine strangers who are stranded in a Mexican jungle after the survival of a plane crash. But in an action, while they may have brought alive after the initial air disaster, the survivors are mysterious in a row, while the others races to find out why – and try to avoid the same fate.
Speak to US WeeklyPresent McCormack confesses He loves the secret and the intrigue associated with the show and its character.
“The most important thing about such a show, but especially as it is Anthony Horowitz wrote this, is that everyone has a secret and we cannot see, we are not inaugurated in what it is, ”he says of the show, which falls on Sunday, March 2nd.“ They are all mysterious characters for us and each other. And I loved that. I love everything with secrets. “
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He adds: “With Kevin from the start, he clearly has something traumatic in his past that he cannot talk about. And he is clearly a doctor, but not really ready to drive it forward. So why? “
While the show plays in the Mexican jungle, Nine corpses in a Mexican corpse hall was actually shot on the Canary Islands, an archipelago that is part of Spain. McCormack buries its own secrets The reality of the film in the area.
“It is a terrible secret to tell, but the truth is the island we shot on, there is no jungle there. It is volcanic. So it is usually a state -of -the -art studio, ”says McCormack Us.
He adds: “It is only that you created this incredible jungle for us.”
Interestingly, the jungle for which the crew was created Nine corpses in a Mexican corpse hall According to McCormack, it started to quickly form its own ecosystem.
“I mean, mistakes crawl on us and I screamed at props that were placed in the bugs?” “It felt more and more real.”
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Nevertheless, the beautiful location itself was enough so that McCormack has the chance to sign on the dotted line.
“Before I read the script, it was like shooting the Canary Islands and I said yes,” he admits Us. “And that doesn’t give her agents much to negotiate.”
In addition to the breathtaking landscape that you can enjoy during work, the international location was also with other advantages for McCormack, including the opportunity to connect with its fellow human beings, including including David Ajala, Peter Gadiot And Siobhán McSweeney. Since they all worked away from their hometowns, they ate together almost every evening and closed friendships from the start.
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McCormack remembers that the line -up on the first day was the opening scene – which includes a dramatic plane crash, and it happened to be the day after the actor’s birthday Lydia Wilson.
“I think there were two hours after drinks (the night before driving in the shooting work) and she said: This is the most beautiful way to spend my 40th birthday,” says McCormack. “We went, ‘what? Today?’ She said, “Yes, yes, today, but do nothing. So we had to blow it out a little and had a bit of a birthday party, and the next day we had all day to scream and hold on to sitting, and it was a legal proceedings through fire. “
The dramatic plane crash was not the only difficult part when it came to filming Nine corpses in a Mexican corpse hallalthough. McCormack says that filming the show also had some other challenges.
“There is a scene that was actually quite real in which one of the characters falls from the side of a mountain and I try to capture them,” he says of one of his most difficult scenes that I can shoot. “And that was a hundred degrees heat and then many shots. That was probably the most difficult. “
Apart from the physically hard scenes, McCormack teases an emotional scene that affects his character Kevin and learns more about what his “deal” is, which was also difficult to shoot.
McCormack adds that filming on an island that showed her “stranded” characters on the screen a little more realistic.
“If they are all caught in one room, a large part of the actor will take care of himself somewhere,” he says.
With reporting from Christina Garibaldi
