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Eric McCormack Loves everything to do with secrets – and it’s just so good, because his new show Nine bodies in a Mexican mortuary Is full of them.
The actor, 61, plays Kevin in the new MGM+ series that follows nine strangers who have been stranded in a Mexican jungle after surviving a plane crash. But in a plot turn: although they may have made it alive after the first air disaster, the survivors mysteriously start to be killed one by one while the others race to find out why – and try to avoid the same fate.
Spend against US WeeklyMcCormack confesses that he loves the mystery and the intrigues involved in the show and its character.
“The most important thing about a show like this, but especially the way that Anthony Horowitz Wrote this one is that everyone has a secret and we don’t get to see, we are not aware of what it is, “he says about the show, which falls on Sunday 2 March.” They are all mysterious characters for us and for each other. And that’s what I loved. I love everything with secrets. “
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 willing to wear it ahead. So why? “
While the show is in the Mexican jungle, Nine bodies in a Mexican mortuary Was actually filmed in the Canary Islands, an archipelago that is part of Spain. McCormack Morst his own secrets about the reality of filming in the area.
“It is a terrible secret to tell, but the truth is the island we shot at, there is no jungle. It is volcanic. So it’s usually a state-of-the-art studio, “shares McCormack with Us.
He adds: “It’s just that they have made this incredible jungle to be in.”
Interesting is that the jungle for which the crew has been created Nine bodies in a Mexican mortuary Was so realistic that it quickly started to form its own ecosystem, according to McCormack.
“I mean, bugs crawl on us, and I screamed against props:” Did you give bugs? “He remembers before the realization of him penetrated it himself. “It started to feel more and more.”
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US WeeklyYet the beautiful film location itself was enough for McCormack to have the chance to draw on the dotted line.
“Before I read the script, it was as if it shoots in the Canary Islands and I said yes,” he admits Us. “And that doesn’t give your agents much to negotiate with.”
In addition to the beautiful landscape to enjoy during work, the international location also came with other benefits for McCormack, including being able to bind it with his colleague castmates, including David Ajala, Peter Gadiot And Siobhán McSweeney. Because they all worked away from their home cities, they ate together almost every night and immediately formed friendships from the start.
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McCormack remembers that the cast shot the opening scene – which means a dramatic plane crash – on the first day, and it happened to be the day after Castlid’s birthday Lydia Wilson.
“I think there were two hours in drinks [the night before filming kicked off] And she said, well, this is the best way to spend my 40th birthday, “says McCormack. “We went:” What? Today?’ She said: ‘Yes, yes, today, but make nothing. So we had to blow it out a bit and had a bit of a birthday party, and then the next day we had the whole day to scream and hold chairs and it was a process of fire. “
The dramatic plane crash was not the only difficult part when it came to filming Nine bodies in a Mexican mortuaryalthough. McCormack says that filming the show also came up with some other challenges.
“There is a scene that was actually very real where one of the characters falls from the side of a mountain, and I try to hold her,” he says about one of his most difficult scenes to shoot. “And that was one hundred degrees heat and then many shots. That was probably the most challenging. ‘
Apart from the physically hard scenes, McCormack teases an emotional scene that means his character Kevin and learns more about what his “deal” is that it was also a difficult thing to photograph.
McCormack adds that the filming on an island made their ‘stranded’ characters on the screen a little more realistic.
“If you are all trapped in a room, a lot of acting takes care of themselves,” he says.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi