Eric McCormack He loves anything to do with the secrets, and it is the same because his new show Nine bodies in a Mexican morga It’s full of them.
The 61 -year -old actor plays Kevin in the new MGM+ series that follows nine strangers who are stuck in a Mexican jungle after surviving a plane. But in a plot turning: although they may be alive after the initial disaster of the air, the survivors begin to be mysteriously killed one by one, while the others run to find out why and try to avoid the same destination.
Speaking Use weekly, McCormack confesses He loves the mystery and intrigue involved with the show and his character.
“The important thing of a show like this but particularly like this Anthony Horowitz He wrote this, is that everyone has a secret and we do not see it, we are not available to what it is, “he says of the program, which falls on Sunday, March 2.” They are all mysterious characters for us and one another. And this is what I loved. I love anything with secrets. “
He adds: “With Kevin from the beginning, he clearly has something traumatic in his past that he cannot speak. And of course he is a doctor, but he is not really ready to do it. So why? ”
While the show can be established in the Mexican jungle, Nine bodies in a Mexican morga It was actually shot in the Canary Islands, an archipelago that is part of Spain. McCormack flies his own secrets the reality of the shoot in the area.
“It’s a terrible secret to say, but the truth is that the island we shot, there is no jungle. It is volcanic. So it is a state -of -the -art study,” McCormack shares Us.
He adds: “They created this incredible jungle so we were.”
Interestingly, the jungle that created the crew Nine bodies in a Mexican morga It was so realistic that he quickly began to form his own ecosystem, according to McCormack.
“I mean, insects are dragging on us and I was shouting at the accessories,” have you provided insects? “, He recalls, before the realization seemed to him he did it himself.” He began to feel more and more real. “

Eric McCormack
Use weeklyHowever, the beautiful shooting location was enough for McCormack to jump with the possibility of signing on the point line.
“Before reading the script, it was like, shoot in the Canary Islands and I said yes,” admits We. “And that doesn’t give much to your agents to negotiate.”
In addition to the impressive landscape to enjoy during the work, the international location also came with other advantages for McCormack, including being able to link with his colleagues, which includes David Ajala, Peter Gadiot and Siobhán mcsweeney. Because everyone worked outside their cities, they ate almost every night and formed friendships from the beginning.
McCormack recalls that the cast fired on the opening scene, which results in a dramatic plane crash the first day, and spent the day after the member of the cast member. Lydia Wilson.
“I think there were two hours in cups (the night before the shot kick) and said, well, this is the most lovely way to spend my 40th birthday,” says McCormack. “We went, what? Today? She said,” Yes, yes, today, but you don’t do anything. So we had to blow a bit and had a little birthday party, and the next day we had all day to shout and take the seats and it was a fire trial. “
The dramatic fall of the aircraft was not the only hard part when it was rolling Nine bodies in a Mexican morgaBut. McCormack says that filming the show also involved some other challenges.
“There is a scene that was really real where one of the characters falls on the side of a mountain, and I’m trying to hold on,” he says of his most complicated scenes to shoot. “And this was a hundred heat and then many traits. It was probably the hardest. “”
Apart from physically hard scenes, McCormack mocks that there is an emotional scene that involves his character Kevin and learning more about what his “treatment” is that it was also difficult to shoot.
McCormack adds that the filming remotely on an island made its “stuck” characters on the screen a little more realistic.
“When you are trapped in a space, a lot of interpretation is taken care of somewhere,” he says.
With reports from Christina Garibaldi