It seems like a combination of an Agatha Christie murder mystery and an 80’s slasher film.  It seems a little intense for us to watch with the kiddies, but intriguing just the same.

In the video, there’s a short snippet of interview with Christopher Goham, and several clips of some of his scenes (amongst others).  At the Harper’s Island web site, there’s also “biographies” of each character, including Gorham’s  (who is, once again, named Henry).

About Island’s unorthodox filming, Gorham admits it was a little unsettling. 

“As an actor, it requires an unprecedented amount of trust in your producers, because none of us knew what was going to happen,” he said. “None of us knew what our story arcs were going to be. There was no planning in advance. There was no planting of seeds. In a situation like that, you just have to trust your instincts, and trust that the producers know what they’re doing.”

“You say to yourself, ‘OK, I’m going to play what’s in front of me, and only what’s in front of me. And trust that when we get five episodes down the line, I’m not going to look back and regret the choices that I made, because something changed, because a relationship changed, because someone died . . .’ There was an extraordinary amount of trust involved.”

“On the flip side of that, I think it brought an incredible freshness to what we were doing. It made it incredibly alive, incredibly in the moment, and it made the whole experience a lot of fun. The funny thing is that, by doing it that way, we got to experience, as actors, what the audience is going to experience when they’re watching it.”

I know I’m going to at least DVR this show.  What about you?

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This week’s print version of TV Guide has a blurb about Christopher Gorham and his new show, Harper’s Island.  You can view a scan here.

Gorham says, of his Ugly Betty character Henry’s relationship with Betty, “The show got us together and had to think of ways to keep us apart”. 

There’s really no disagreeing with that.  We can argue whether the producers jumped the gun with the Henry/Betty relationship (as much as I like him, I think they did – romantic tension is always better, dramatically, than a healthy relationship), but there’s no denying that the whole love triangle thing was not handled well. (This is assuming that the story just abruptly ends early in season 3)

Back to the blurb, it mentions that Gorham’s character on Harper’s Island, Henry Dunn, is a “dashing groom”.  The plot of the show has friends and family gathering on the island, only to get picked off one by one by a mysterious killer. The killer is revealed in the season finale.

But there’s an interesting Ugly Betty connection: Adam Campbell, who plays a guest and subsequently one of the suspects, is married to none other than Jayma Mays, who of course played the girl we loved to hate, Charlie.  Asked if she could be the killer, Campbell says, “I live with the girl, so I know she’s got a sinister side.  Nothing would surprise me.”

Source: SpoilerTV

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