Dexter: Resurrection acquired off to a robust begin with the fictional serial killer's son, Harrison, dismembering a physique in one of many franchise's goriest scenes but.
Through the sequence premiere, which aired on Sunday, July 13, Dexter's (Michael C. Corridor) son is now residing in New York Metropolis after seemingly killing his father on the finish of Dexter: New Blood. Harrison (Jack Alcott) doesn't know that Dexter survived and is riddled with guilt whereas working at a luxurious resort.
Regardless of making an attempt to curb his murderous facet, Harrison snaps when one of many visitors tries to sexually assault a girl. Harrison kills the visitor to stop him from harming extra girls sooner or later, which ends up in a sequence the place the physique is dragged to a different a part of the resort to be minimize up and disposed of.
“That was a loopy day. Something with lots of sensible results is all the time equally thrilling and daunting. There's simply lots of literal stuff to work with,” Alcott, 26, solely instructed Us Weekly. “I keep in mind the primary time seeing the physique and seeing the elements and being like, ‘Oh my God.' I don't know the way you react to that. Then after all I'm tossing [the body parts] round.”
Showtime's spinoff to the unique Dexter present didn't maintain again when it got here to the ugly particulars.
“As soon as we began taking pictures, the choreography for that sequence was very particular. There have been lots of inserts and seeing totally different items of the knife right here. Clearly there are broad pictures and all types of different angles. However there's simply very, very particular choreography for me,” Alcott defined. “From the order of [cutting up the body] elements, how the knife strikes right here earlier than it goes up right here and in addition to ensure to cover that blood moat as a result of we're going to see one thing shoot out.”
The actor discovered it to be fairly technical, including, “[We were keeping track] of the order wherein the elements go into the trash luggage and the way in which wherein the knot is tied on the physique bag. So the expertise of taking pictures it, I really feel like I nearly didn't actually completely get to expertise it as a result of I used to be so zeroed in on the duty at hand.”
Alcott discovered the expertise difficult in one of the simplest ways attainable.
“Thankfully and sarcastically, it's form of precisely the place Harrison is at. It's nearly as if he doesn't expertise it. He zeroes in on the duty at hand and completes what must be accomplished,” he famous. “It's not till after it's completed that we see his response to what he's simply taken half in.”
After reprising the function of Harrison, which he originated in Dexter: New Blood, Alcott mirrored on the unconventional classes he realized from enjoying an evolving serial killer.
“Placing your self within the footwear of the character, you be taught one thing on each set. You be taught one thing from each story you inform. As a result of even when it's a narrative or a personality that's near you, it's not all you except you're enjoying your self,” he instructed Us. “So that you're going to expertise one thing new, and you'll take away one thing from each set.”
Dexter: Resurrection is accessible to stream on Paramount+ Fridays and airs on Showtime Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.
