TheSuspect's Aidan Turner talks about refusing to hoodwink his audience, conquering his fear of heights onset, and more.
The five-part thriller The Suspect, available to stream for Sundance Now and AMC+, follows Joe O’Loughlin , a clinical psychologist with a successful practice and a loving family who becomes something of an online hero after rescuing a young patient preparing to jump off a ledge.
AIDAN TURNER: Yeah, me too. I’ve been waiting for one of these for a while. I’ve read some of them and have thought that it’s easy for these things to fall into the template of being quite formulaic. And then, I read this and was two episodes in when I thought, “I still can’t figure out who this Joe guy is. This is weird. I love it.” It’s complicated and difficult and muddy and unclear, in a good way, and it kept me thinking. I’ve been waiting to do a show like this.
I love the ambiguity of it the most. I would push for that to be longer. I wish we were into episode four and still going, “What on earth is going on?,” because it works well for me. But the producers said, “I think we’ve run out of steam with Joe.” He’s fascinating and he’s digging holes for himself, all over the place. It starts off with what it seems like is a pretty innocent transgression, but then it snowballs into something else, and he tries to cover that up.
We realize pretty early on that this guy knows more than he initially lets on, and then he does these things and makes these decision that make him seem more suspicious or guilty than if he had just handled something a little bit differently.
TURNER: Oh, yeah, 100%. I knew I’d have trouble with it, from when I read the very first episode. I thought, “How is this going to work?” We built the top two floors on a lot. There was no green screen. We had stunt guys that were 25 stories up, or whatever the hell that was, but I was up a fair height, enough to have a pretty dodgy ankle, had I fell off it. It was enough height for me to make those squeals pretty authentic on the day. I’m not a fan of heights. I never was, and never will be.
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