Mumbai, Actor Eric McCormack says he is a fan of the mystery genre because part of the entertainment is keeping the audience guessing who the culprit is and working as a team with co-stars to protect the secrets of the story.
McCormack, best known for starring in the popular series “Will & Grace,” currently stars in the mystery thriller series “Nine Bodies in a Mexican Mortuary.”
The show, which premiered on BBC One and iPlayer last month and is now streaming on Prime Video in India, follows nine strangers who find themselves stranded in the Mexican jungle after a plane crash.
As they begin to die one by one, the survivors must race to find out which of them is the killer.
“As an actor, I like that because it’s essentially an ensemble. It requires a group of actors working together to mislead the audience, to create a mystery of who the killer is or who is doing it, which has to be protected.
“And that’s how I play a scene. We can easily leave it by choosing the wrong option. So, it’s a real collective effort to keep the ball in the air and keep the audience guessing,” the actor told PTI in a virtual interview.
The actor said his all-time favorite thriller is the 2002 action thriller “The Bourne Identity”, starring Hollywood star Matt Damon.
The film, which spawned a successful franchise, is acclaimed for its tight storyline, which focuses on Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin who suffers from dissociative amnesia.
“The first one is a murder mystery. The mystery is who is he? He’s trying to figure out who he is, and I’ve always liked that. Anything where someone is searching for clues, and in the case of that movie, he’s constantly searching for clues about himself, about parts of himself that he can’t remember, so I like that,” McCormack said.
“Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue” is directed by Brian O’Malley and Vivian Anderhagen.
McCormack plays Kevin Anderson, a former doctor and medical equipment salesman, in the show.
The actor described Anderson as “lonely”.
“There’s a plane crash, and it usually brings people together, then maybe slowly they start to distrust each other. But this group of people don’t trust each other from the beginning. Everyone has secrets. No one even wants to tell their name, let alone where they’re from, which is a very strange way to start a show.
“Like, you suddenly say, ‘I don’t trust any of these people, how did they all get on this plane at the same time? What are they hiding?’ I think that was the most fascinating part,” the Canadian-American actor said.
In real life, the actor said he would like to think that he would handle a crisis more effectively than Kevin.
“If there was an emergency like that, I hope I would be better than Kevin. It’s one of those situations, you don’t know how you’ll respond. But what I learned from it is that it’s always the people working together who survive, not the lonely people,” he said.
“Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue” also stars David Ajala, Lydia Wilson, Jan Le, Adam Long, Siobhan McSweeney and Peter Gadiot.
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