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