Tyler Posey is in his homicide thriller period beginning with Fox’s Homicide in a Small City — and hopefully ending with a job in a Knives Out sequel.
“I really like Knives Out a lot,” Posey, 34, solely informed Us Weekly after taking part in Ryan within the Tuesday, October 21, episode of the procedural. “I’m an enormous fan of Freida McFadden’s writing and her first film [The Housemaid] is about to return out. So I might like to be concerned in that — in any of it.”
Posey needs “extra of this style” in terms of future roles, including, “I even have a homicide thriller [and horror] undertaking that I’ve written and that’s that we’re going to start out filming fairly quickly. I’m all for it.”
Followers can get a glimpse at Posey in his ingredient in Tuesday’s episode, which adopted a troubled excessive schooler who found a wounded physique within the woods. This led investigators to search for the tried assassin and the proof pointed to an unsolved case involving the sufferer’s daughter from years prior.
“Every little thing was interesting in regards to the present. I’m an enormous fan of homicide thriller whodunnit and there’s simply one thing so interesting about it. You get so sucked into the content material and the viewers actually will get to play alongside. It’s this puzzle piece that the viewers tries to determine your complete time,” Posey shared. “One factor that’s cool in regards to the present is that it’s based mostly on this picturesque and delightful seaside city. Beneath there’s quite a lot of homicide and issues. That’s actually cool symbolism for lots of those visitor stars — particularly my character, Ryan.”
Posey was thrilled to play the “tremendous layered” character.
“He seems to be like this actually variety man. He’s non secular and he’s obtained crystals throughout him. He’s checking in on his good friend and he apprehensive about him, which I believe is all true. However beneath, there’s simply all this torment and a layer of all the things that he’s gone by way of, which is all these horrible accidents that simply hold following him round,” he defined. “He retains digging himself deeper and deeper into these actually troubling holes. At a sure level, his solely resolve to get out of this gap is to do one thing actually drastic.”
The actor continued: “Folks love to observe human nature [stories] and to have the ability to reply and resonate with these characters. Ryan is simply so complicated and troubled and unhappy. You do really feel for him and what’s cool about this character is that quite a lot of the viewers will discover quite a lot of sympathy for him.”
After the episode constructed up the thriller of the killer, it may need come as a shock to some to see Posey get unmasked on the finish.
“We needed it to be actually pure as a result of we needed him to really be that character. We gave him this actually nice backstory of how he met Jack by way of grief counseling as a result of he needed to ensure that Jack wasn’t on his path. He needed to remain near him however in doing so he actually did develop a friendship and a love for Jack,” Posey famous. “Every little thing is actual with him and we simply actually leaned into the realness of him being very involved. You understand, he was, nevertheless it simply it sort of looks as if to the viewers that he’s involved about his good friend — fairly than involved about his personal livelihood. We actually obtained to lean into that and play with that and it does throw off the viewers. Taking part in a job like this, you undoubtedly need to just be sure you’re not giving it away.”
There was additionally a “balancing act” of hinting at Ryan’s true nature whereas not giving it away for these holding out hope that Posey was taking part in a great man after initially successful Us over together with his fan-favorite position on Teen Wolf.
“We actually obtained to play into that. We needed to stroll this steadiness of constructing certain this man stays very involved and have a levity to him,” he added. “That’s the hope that I’ve for everyone who’s watching the present as a result of that’s the, that’s the character of those exhibits. You don’t need to know who did it till the very finish.”
Homicide in a Small City airs on Fox Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.