Eric McCormack loves something to do with secrets and techniques — and it’s simply as nicely, as a result of his new present 9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue is stuffed with them.
The actor, 61, performs Kevin within the new MGM+ collection which follows 9 strangers who’re stranded in a Mexican jungle after surviving a airplane crash. However, in a plot twist: whereas they could have made it out alive following the preliminary air catastrophe, the survivors start to be mysteriously killed off one after the other whereas the others race to determine why — and attempt to keep away from the identical destiny.
Chatting with Us Weekly, McCormack confesses he loves the thriller and intrigue concerned with the present and his character.
“The vital factor a couple of present like this, however notably the way in which that Anthony Horowitz wrote this one, is that everyone’s received a secret and we don’t get to see, we’re not aware of what it’s,” he says of the present, which drops Sunday, March 2. “They’re all mysterious characters to us and to one another. And that’s what I liked. I really like something with secrets and techniques.”
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He provides: “With Kevin from the start, he’s clearly received one thing traumatic in his previous that he can’t speak about. And he clearly is a health care provider, however not likely prepared to hold that ahead. So, why?”
Whereas the present could also be set within the Mexican jungle, 9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue was truly filmed within the Canary Islands, an archipelago that’s a part of Spain. McCormack spills his personal secrets and techniques concerning the actuality of filming within the space.
“It’s a horrible secret to inform, however the fact is the island we shot on, there’s no jungle there. It’s volcanic. So it’s principally a state-of-the-art studio,” McCormack shares with Us.
He provides, “It’s simply that they created this unbelievable jungle for us to be in.”
Curiously, the jungle the crew created for 9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue was so reasonable it shortly started forming its personal ecosystem, based on McCormack.
“I imply, bugs are crawling on us, and I used to be yelling at props going, ‘Did you present bugs?’” he recollects, earlier than the conclusion dawned on him that it was doing it itself. “It began to really feel increasingly more actual.”
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Nonetheless, the gorgeous filming location itself was sufficient for McCormack to leap on the probability of signing on the dotted line.
“Earlier than I learn the script, it was like, it shoots within the Canary Islands and I stated sure,” he admits to Us. “And that doesn’t give your brokers a lot to barter with.”
In addition to the beautiful surroundings to get pleasure from whereas at work, the worldwide location additionally got here with different perks for McCormack, together with having the ability to bond along with his fellow castmates, which incorporates David Ajala, Peter Gadiot and Siobhán McSweeney. Since they have been all working away from their house cities, they ate dinner collectively nearly each night time and shaped friendships proper from the get-go.
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McCormack recollects that the solid shot the opening scene — which entails a dramatic airplane crash — on day one, and it occurred to be the day after the birthday of solid member Lydia Wilson.
“I feel there have been two hours into drinks [the night before filming kicked off] and he or she stated, nicely, that is the loveliest technique to spend my fortieth birthday,” McCormack says. “We went, ‘What? As we speak?’ She stated, ‘Sure, sure, at the moment, however don’t make a factor. So we needed to blow that out just a little bit and had a little bit of a party, after which the subsequent day we had all day lengthy to scream and maintain onto seats and it was a trial by hearth.”
The dramatic airplane crash wasn’t the one powerful half when it got here to filming 9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue, although. McCormack says filming the present additionally got here with another challenges.
“There’s a scene that was truly fairly actual the place one of many characters falls off of the facet of a mountain, and I’m making an attempt to carry on to her,” he says of one in every of his trickiest scenes to shoot. “And that was 100 diploma warmth after which a number of photographs. That was in all probability essentially the most difficult.”
Apart from the bodily exhausting scenes, McCormack teases there’s an emotional scene that entails his character Kevin and studying extra about what his “deal” is that was additionally a troublesome one to shoot.
McCormack provides that filming remotely on an island made portraying their “stranded” on-screen characters just a little extra reasonable, nevertheless.
“When you’re all trapped in an area, a number of the performing takes care of itself someplace,” he says.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
