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Actor Jack Alcott talks to The Inside Reel about approach, details, environment and movement in regards to the continuation of the Dexter saga with the new series: “Dexter: Resurrection” via Showtime on Paramount+

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00:00what do you think
00:18it's not an easy character to play plus with all the mythology behind it but you have to play him
00:29for you before you played for the audience could you talk about you know obviously finding that
00:35new blood but looking at how it has to progress in something like resurrection
00:40i mean that's a great question i mean obviously there's there's there's plenty of work that goes
00:45into it kind of as an actor but i mean i've been given the gift of like really really great
00:50writing i mean his his story while you know it is narratively complex you know is is easy to
00:59follow and very understandable um and as an actor that's that's a huge gift and then you know in
01:06addition to that just just this cast like every time i'm in a scene i'm working with an absolute
01:11monster of an actor um who i mean might as well just hand me my performance like all i have to do
01:17is is listen to the other person in the scene and know my lines um and it you know it it feels real
01:24it's um yeah it's it's just this has been a it's it's not an easy job but like it's yeah it's the
01:32the performances and the writing it's have been a gift and have made my job a lot easier
01:36somebody once told me you have to go through hell to achieve resurrection
01:45hallelujah dexter it's like seeing a ghost chief bishop told me that you were alive she said that
01:56you were the bay harbor butcher so much for the happy reunion it's also in the details you know jack
02:06because the you know we can even see in the first episode and i don't want to give too much away but
02:11you know the way he looks at a scene the way he thinks like his father in certain ways looking at
02:16those little things the number nine for example you know um could you talk about like looking at
02:22the details because you can have the script you can have these monsters of actors but you have to play
02:26in between the lines sometimes to really get to the meat of this man absolutely and i mean i think
02:32that's something for me that's that's developed as i've had time to play this character which is also
02:37unique for me in a first to um get to spend so much time exploring this one person and following
02:45his story um and so i think a lot of it i think slowly gets baked in i mean for one independent of
02:52just working with him spending a lot of time with michael c hall watching him perform um and then
02:58watching the show i mean you i you you start to pick up things some consciously and some subconsciously
03:04because i mean you know like you you gotta you gotta carry some of it with you because it's that's
03:09your dad
03:09what better place to hide this is the greatest city in the world where nobody knows who you really are
03:18tell me more about your friends prater likes to own things
03:22time to meet the man of the manor welcome i cannot express how excited i am to meet you
03:31you really like serial killers i pride myself on finding the best of the best in every field
03:37let's show and tell that hey so there are others on their way also you know you're not sure we are
03:44our parents but we're not our parents we're trying to move beyond that could you talk about like some
03:49of the questions maybe or some things that have become clearer to you you know being with michael
03:54and understanding what he has done over all these years and how you bring that
03:58while adding your own to harrison yeah i mean i think
04:02well yeah having michael to watch and having michael come before me is is so awesome because he
04:10is he's an exceptional case study in just like watching a character evolve and even as they evolve
04:20carry all of their history with them um you see everywhere that he has been in every second of his
04:26performance um and the more that i worked with him the more that i sort of realized i was like well
04:31yeah you're not i don't know you're you're not carrying that up here that's not um it's not as
04:38heady as that like you you you've lived that and these these are all of these things that you have
04:43done as an actor and as a character um and so i think the the carrying it is something that kind of
04:50happens naturally and so you're naturally going to bring your character's history with you
04:55particularly you know when did we shoot i mean it's it didn't come out that long ago so there's
04:59it's not it's not like i've you know been playing a totally different person over and over and over
05:04again in between it's it was something that was easy to uh return to and then in terms of how he
05:10evolves it was also nice to start to loosen up in the character and go i don't need to spend all of
05:17my energy um mimicking michael because i'm not michael i'm not dexter i'm harrison and the the
05:26new the little ways in which i can you know jack will come out or just other character choices will
05:31come out like not everything has to be sort of a nail on the head i'm not i'm not patrick gibson i'm
05:37not playing a young version of dexter either like i'm i i have the privilege of um you know getting
05:43to discover a lot of you know little random things that can just become a part of the character
05:47are you here for business richard's got the meetings i get the spa days nice well if you need
05:55any recommendations for dinner bars whatever i'm your guy
06:01that brings up a good question is the aspect and we saw it at the end of last season and we even see
06:18it in the beginning of this first episode it's choice versus instinct you know and it's interesting
06:24because you see him move through a kitchen for example and he's doing little things and he could
06:29make one choice to go one way or one choice to go the other way but at one point instinct will take
06:34over like could you sort of talk about that in terms of the psychology of the character of choice
06:40versus instinct oh it's fun i mean as as a as a younger character uh i think choice in general is not
06:49something that is fully kind of matured in you until you are much older um particularly when you know we
06:55talk about choice when you're talking about choice at that level with those stakes um and i think even
07:03sort of going there in your head it feels scary and wrong but um instinct is always there instinct is
07:09there from infancy um and it's also something that you have less control over uh when you're young
07:16um and you know don't have a ton of guidance in that area i mean certainly a little bit but uh but not a
07:25lot not as much as um as dexter has had
07:28um hello i'm so sorry uh your suite's right this way
07:46and my last question you because it and it's sort of two-pronged is the aspect of environment
07:54because obviously the environment in the last space was different than the environment in this
07:59space and the thing is it affects movement it affects how your character moves even i mean you
08:05know so it's a two-pronged question the importance of environment how environment affects and changes
08:10a character but also how it affects movement in terms of how you move as the character because when
08:17you're in different rooms when you go into one specific hotel room let's say you know there's a
08:23specific movement so environment and then the aspect of movement within that and then i'll let
08:28you go yeah i mean obviously environment makes a world of difference for you know as an actor as an
08:36audience member as a writer i mean it just it changes your story i mean it is it is the setting and like
08:40new blood for instance i mean like that was such a that was such a cold and stark barren landscape
08:46um which you know i think at least you know as an actor for harrison is kind of perfect because
08:54he's pretty stark and pretty barren coming into that show um but to a degree i mean you've got to match
09:02the energy in your environment and so coming to new york um and simultaneously trying to leave all of
09:09that behind trying to leave iron lake behind and everything that happened there um how much can i
09:16take take on from this new environment in the city well you know this place of kind of infinite
09:20opportunity a place where i can start over um and yeah that that definitely changes how a character
09:27moves and but you know conversely uh you know you get yourself into a sticky situation um and i mean
09:35it's gonna it's gonna tighten a whole lot of things up only in new york
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09:43invitation delivered
09:48this is the dark path you're going down
09:53i heard you to be careful son i'm tired of being careful
09:59this is the dark path you're gonna the inside of the outside of the sky
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