Dead Boy Detectives actor Michael Beach has confirmed that he will be a part of the upcoming Netflix series “frightened him.”
The show follows two teenage mornings, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, who don’t want to enter the afterlife. Instead, they stayed on Earth and help solve supernatural crimes.
Sometimes that includes getting help from Michael Beach’s Tragic Mick, a walrus stuck in a human body who runs a magic shop.
Michael Beach plays Tragic Mick in Dead Boy Detectives
In an exclusive interview with The Direct’s Russ Milheim, Dead Boy Detective star Michael Beach, who plays Tdon on the show, talked about what drew him to the show.
The actor admitted that the play was “completely different from what (he) usually (does)” which was “something that scared (him):”
“Well, what I found very interesting about it is that it’s something completely different from what I usually do. So it was something that scared me but excited me at the same time. And I think when you can be excited about something as an actor and especially scared, I think that is something we should jump into, you know, sometimes you get a little too comfortable. And because ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ is definitely not my wheelhouse.”
Beach’s character is known as Tragic Mick, someone who is actually a walrus stuck in a human body. But how do you even approach such a role?
“I started watching videos of walruses on the beach,” the actor explained which “really helped:”
“It’s funny because I don’t usually do that much research. But for this one, I said, Well, I’m going to start with the physical. So I went on YouTube and started watching videos of walruses on the beach. docks and stuff like that, their movements and sounds… and believe it or not, it really helped me get into the zone where I thought it was good to play a guy who used to be a walrus.”
As for how often fans will see her on the show, Beach teased how she “pops up:”
“I come up all the time. Yeah, I mean, not a ton, but whenever the Dead Boys need some mystical help with potions and stuff, they come to my store to get that stuff because Mick’s been sourcing and looking for about 200 years. ways they could help him get back to being a walrus so he can go back to the sea where he wants to be. And so his shop is full of trinkets and spells and potions whenever someone needs something like that, they come to me, Tragic Mick.”
He then turned to what he called his character’s appearance “pretty fantastic” also pointed out how it was “part of the physicality that helped (him):”
“I got a little makeup help, which was interesting. His look is pretty fantastic when we came up with it or they came up with it. And I was like, ‘Yeah!'” And again, it was part of the physicality that helped me figure out who this guy was. “
When asked what part of her time on the show was the most memorable, she remarked “hanging out with the kids” i.e. leading actor, was at the top of the list.
“For me, it was really hanging out with the kids… Well, to me, they’re kids; they’re younger than my kids, but starring George (Rexstrew) and Jaden (Revri), especially Yuyu (Kitamura), and it was fun to be with that kind of energy and those around young actors who are really just starting their careers, and remembering what it was like and that feeling, and being able to start experiencing it with them.
Beach went on to explain how she remembers spending as much time as she could on set mingling with the other cast and crew:
“Because we spent a lot of time talking, waiting for setups and stuff, we spent time in the same area. So I really appreciated that because a lot of times you just go back to the trailer and wait, and you hang out and I’d rather be in the conversation, so I got to know them in a way that I didn’t would have been included in the trailer.
But would the actor have wanted more Dead Boy Detective if the series had more episodes? “Oh, definitely” Beach declared:
“Oh absolutely. Absolutely. I had a ball. I was scared, but I had a ball.”
Dead Boy Detectives will be released on Netflix on April 25.
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