Eric creator and writer Abi Morgan and star McKinley Belcher III about the new Netflix drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
“Set in 1980s New York, Eric is a new emotional thriller from Abi Morgan following the desperate search of a father when his nine-year-old son disappears one morning on the way to school. Vincent, one of New York’s leading puppeteers and creator of the hugely popular children’s television show, ‘Good Day Sunshine,’ struggles to cope with the loss of his son, Edgar, becoming increasingly distressed and volatile,” says the synopsis.
Tyler Treese: Abi, I love the design of Eric. How did you come up with the design of the puppet? Was there a lot of iterations?Well, I think in the script, it’s like Eric is a seven-foot blue puppet. There’s very little description. So it was really in the hands of Lucy Forbes, the director who we had the initial conversations with around how he should look. He went through many iterations, and he was probably the most talked about character in the entire series, if I’m honest.
But what is interesting about Eric is that he’s built of things that Edgar’s kind of magpie-like taken from life. So he’s got his cat’s tail, he’s got the chevrons on the fur is matching the mink of his grandmother’s jacket. He’s got the actual pupils. The pupil design of the Eric Monster is actually based on Benedict Cumberbatch’s eyes. So it’s a photograph of that copy of his eye color.
McKinley, I loved your performance in the show. I thought your character was very interesting because, in a lot of ways, you’re kind of like the conscience of the show. There’s so much going wrong, and you’re this one detective who’s really trying to do right by this community and find this kid. What did you really connect with for the character?: I really connected to… I think he’s an empath at heart, and I think that’s a way that I walk through the world.
I’m really excited that the show sort of gets to share the journey of what it would’ve felt like to walk through the AIDS epidemic in the eighties. To watch him and William sort of love on each other, and then to watch him mourn him while he’s still there and ultimately after he’s potentially not. I think it’s both beautiful and honors the journey that many people had in real life.Tyler Treese is ComingSoon and SuperHeroHype's Editor-in-Chief.
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