Chemistry between leading actors is vital to any show’s success, andDead Boy Detectives' stars,George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri, recently revealed they had it from the moment they met.Netflix’s new series, set inThe Sandmanuniverse, follows two teenage ghosts and a living psychic who solve undead mysteries, allowing the deceased to move on to the afterlife. Its lead characters, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, have been friends and partners for decades, and it was vital that Netflix’s adaptation presented this through their performances.
In a preview screening and Q+A panel which MovieWeb attended, featuring the cast and creators ofDead Boy Detectives,Jayden Revri revealed the instantaneous bond he formed with his leading co-star.
“We met at Heathrow Airport before we flew out to Vancouver.And I remember it was almost like ‘love at first sight,’ is kind of the way we describe it. It was straight away, wasn’t it? We just kind of knew. You know when you meet somebody and you just know, this is going to be a very easy six months - or however long it was.
“I remember we would practice all of our scenes before. And when we all read the pilot, I remember people would say to us, ‘Did you guys know each other before this?’ Because people would assume we had already been friends beforehand.”
Dead Boy Detectives
Based on the DC series, Dead Boy Detectives is a supernatural comedy-mystery series created for Netflix. Two young men from different find one another in death but decide to skip the afterlife and remain among the living with a new purpose - to solve various supernatural mysteries the way only two deceased detectives can.
Revri also teased their process for developing their characters. At one point, the pair jokingly attempted true ‘method acting’. Revri said:
And do you remember we walked around Vancouver pretending to be Charles and Edwin for the day? As if people couldn’t see us and we were ghosts.
Based on the graphic novels by Neil Gaiman,Dead Boy Detectivesis a spin-off series from Gaiman’s seminalThe Sandmancomics. The characters first appeared inThe Sandman#25 in 1992, and were only intended to appear briefly during the ‘Season of Mists’ storyline. However, Gaiman loved writing the characters so much, he developed a spin-off comic (with Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham) for Vertigo Comics in 2013.
The series is one of many spin-offs from the mainSandmanstory line. Gaiman also producedThe Dreaming, telling stories within Morpheus' realm,Sandman Mystery Theatre, retelling the stories of the original Sandman hero (who existed before Gaiman reinvented the character in 1988), and the immensely popularLucifercomics, which were lateradapted into the hit series starring Tom Ellis.
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Alongside Rexstrew and Revri, Netflix’sDead Boy Detectivesalso stars Kassius Nelson, Briana Cuoco, Ruth Connell, Yuyu Kitamura, Jenn Lyon, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. The series gives audiences plenty to sink their teeth into until Season 2 ofThe Sandmanis released in the coming years (no official release date has been confirmed yet).
TheDead Boy Detectivesare currently solving mysteries on Netflix. The series was released on April 25 andcan be watched here.
