‘DR. DEATH’ CREATOR REVEALS THE MOMENT HE KNEW JOSHUA JACKSON WAS THE PERFECT ACTOR TO PLAY DR. DUNTSCH
First Published on USMagazine.com
NOT AN EASY ROLE TO PULL OFF — BUT JOSHUA JACKSON DID IT. DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, DR. DEATH WAS FORCED TO PUSH BACK PRODUCTION, CAUSING ITS FORMER LEAD, JAMIE DORNAN, TO DROP OUT. LUCKILY, IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR CREATOR PATRICK MACMANUS TO REALIZE THAT THE LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE STAR, 43, HAD EXACTLY WHAT IT TOOK TO PORTRAY THE HIDEOUS DR. CHRISTOPHER DUNTSCH.
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“I knew he was a good actor. He’s been in our lives for 30 years. We grew up with Josh Jackson in many ways, but I knew that this was an extraordinarily difficult character. I think that Josh would confess that this was an extraordinarily difficult character,” Macmanus explained to Us Weekly exclusively. “There was one moment on set where he’s at a dinner with his parents when he’s [playing] a young man who’s 20 years old. He’s looking for the adulation of his father, the support of his father. And this is a 43-year-old man who was playing a 20-year-old.”
The producer went on to explain that the crew was in shock the moment they called cut on Jackson’s close-up.