"Get a behind-the-scenes look at Netflix's 'Dead Boy Detectives' with stars George Rexstrew & Jayden Revri! Join them in their lively conversation with Gayety's Caitlynn McDaniel, where they share the camaraderie and fun of bringing their spectral characters to life.
Watch the exclusive interview to hear about their adventures on set, the bond they share, and how the show embraces LGBTQ+ themes.
Coming to Netflix on April 25! "
Watch the exclusive interview to hear about their adventures on set, the bond they share, and how the show embraces LGBTQ+ themes.
Coming to Netflix on April 25! "
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00:00 Is that C for Charles or Caitlin? Charles. Charles for yeah. Or Crystal. It'd be Crystal.
00:09 True. Don't tell her. The septum piercing is for Crystal. Yeah. True. True. I just chatted
00:16 with her. So it'll be good. I am a big fan of this show. I'm so excited for everyone
00:23 to get to watch it. And I especially love, obviously, Charles and Edwin's relationship.
00:31 So going over to you, Jaden, I just wanted to ask if you had a favorite time on set with
00:37 working with George. Every single scene that we got to film together. Me and George were
00:44 fortunate enough to pretty much be in the same, like most of the same scenes. We were
00:50 in the same car every single day. So I don't know about on set, but I really loved our
00:56 travel to set in the morning. We would stop off at a Starbucks, get coffee. We'd always
01:01 travel in and out together. Yeah. That was literally like our thing. Yeah. Part of the
01:05 process. I think if either of us came in on our own, it was like, it would ruin the equilibrium
01:10 for the whole day. I mean, that's it. You can really see that we were joint at the hip
01:16 from the start. So I love that. George, was it the same for you? Just all the little moments?
01:22 Yeah, I think so. You know, I felt I felt really anchored and shielded by Jaden. I mean,
01:31 I still do that even off camera. But I think I really enjoyed in episode seven, we've got
01:36 to film the origin story of Edwin and Charles. And I really enjoyed that because, you know,
01:41 we've been filming for a few months and we knew each other inside out as Jaden and George
01:45 and as Charles and Edwin. So getting to play scenes and the way we filmed it, it was quite
01:50 frantic, but it was really, really fun. It was like seven little vignettes. And that
01:57 was that was really fun. Richard Spade Jr. absolutely crushed that episode. Shout out
02:02 to him. I love that. I did love that episode as well. It's always fun just getting those
02:07 little flashbacks. There's so much story that we get to really learn about these characters,
02:13 which is always fun. And just going back to relationships, George, I have to ask what
02:18 it was like being seduced by Lucas Cage, because I just I feel like that would be a moment,
02:24 honestly.
02:25 Yeah, well, Caitlin, I'll tell you, it was a moment. You know, I'd already we'd already
02:31 shot the pilot at that point. So I already felt like I had the essence of Edwin and I
02:35 knew I knew what he how he moved and, you know, how he kind of yeah, how he existed,
02:41 I suppose. And then the beginning of episode two, he obviously has that interaction with
02:46 the Cat King. And as Edward, it was obviously very shocking. And I think even for me, I
02:51 was a little bit taken aback because I was so used to filming scenes that were procedural
02:56 and very much not intimate. But Lucas is great. I love Lucas. And he's an absolute joy to
03:07 get to act with.
03:09 He really steps into that character. I was I was so impressed. I love I love his work
03:14 before, but I was like, I feel like this was made for him. Truly. And the show is just
03:19 so wonderfully supernatural. But did you have a favorite case to work on for each of you?
03:27 Mine I think was the case of the two dead dragons in episode five. Yeah, because it's
03:31 the first time, you know, Edwin and Charles have been pin dropped into not just Port Townsend,
03:36 but America. You know, it's a new environment for them. And it's the first time you get
03:41 to see Edwin around peers of his own, you know, of his own age who exist in the present
03:47 day. And that was really, really fun as an actor. But I also love that case because,
03:52 you know, even though it's a really tragic case, I think towards the end of the episode,
03:57 there's a real moment of connection between the characters and Edwin experiences a real
04:03 epiphany when it comes to Charles.
04:05 I just want to give a shout out to the scene in five with Twitchy Richie. It was one of
04:10 the first times you really got to see Edwin and Charles interact with the real life. Like
04:16 remember the bit with the scissors where he makes the scissors walk and where Charles
04:20 like put Frozen to the ground. I love like filming that whole scene. For me personally,
04:26 I think I'm gonna have to shout out episode eight, just because I got to have my Harry
04:31 Potter Chamber of Secrets moment fighting the snake with a sword. It's not every day
04:36 you get to do that. So yeah, and I think that's the that's the penultimate point of Charles's
04:42 journey. That if he's wondering if he's a good guy or a bad guy, if he's a villain or
04:47 a hero, I mean, I think only heroes go down to the magic void and kill the snake.
04:55 I didn't know there was a question of if he was a hero. That's interesting. I just always
05:00 saw that way. I mean, and I love what you said about just like the ghosts interacting
05:08 because I constantly forgot that you were ghosts. And then you'd see Crystal alone.
05:12 I was like, Oh God, she's always talking about like, you are so good at just disappearing
05:23 and being a ghost. I have to ask, I mean, your characters exist in different eras, obviously.
05:31 So did you do any research to kind of prepare for how that was going to look and act?
05:36 Yeah, we both did. I think we both researched into our individual eras. For sure. We had
05:43 a lot of discussions with the heads of department on the show. So our head of hair for the pilot,
05:49 Lauren Carroll, she had this huge book just full of Victorian hairstyles. And we basically
05:56 just got to pick one, which is really fun.
05:59 Everyone made it really easy for us. All the HODs, they were so collaborative and they
06:03 did 90% of the work for us, really. They kind of embodied us into these eras just by look
06:10 itself, you know?
06:11 Yeah, they sculpt the world around us and we kind of come in last minute.
06:15 Yeah.
06:16 Just roll up, get to be there. Love that. Jada, do you know how many times you say 'brills'
06:23 in the show?
06:24 I would love a counter. Like if they're like Netflix, Netflix, can we take a picture?
06:30 I think they've done it before.
06:32 I mean, that's a great pitch to Netflix. Let's count how many 'brills' Charles says in the
06:38 series.
06:39 Maybe aces, but I think 'brills' might be in the second.
06:41 What do you prefer, Caitlin, 'brills' or aces?
06:45 I think 'brills'. I do.
06:47 I think I do too.
06:48 I think it's more satisfying to say, isn't it? 'Brills'.
06:51 And I think it's a couple of 'brills' in the series as well.
06:54 Does it?
06:55 Mm-hmm.
06:56 Oh, wow.
06:57 She doesn't even know.
06:58 Yeah, I've forgotten the whole thing.
07:00 That's 'brills'. Saved you one time on the tube. You won't leave either.
07:04 Oh, yeah.
07:05 See, he does the one for both of us, Caitlin.
07:09 Not true.
07:10 Now my goal in life is to get a 'brills'. I'll wait. Don't say it just to say it after.
07:15 Okay.
07:16 And just to close this off, what are you most excited to see from fans online after they
07:22 watch the show?
07:23 Well, I suppose I'm excited for the show really just to come out for people to see this wacky,
07:32 whimsical, wonderful world that we've created.
07:37 It's been a real labor of love, this show, and all the creatives on it have done such
07:43 exceptional work. It truly is a unique show, and I just hope fans, yeah, respond to it.
07:50 I'm just really excited to see who everyone's favorite characters are because I think there's
07:54 so many characters that have all these amazing things about them.
07:59 And weirdoes.
08:00 Absolutely. I think everyone will definitely have a favorite. I mean, I love Nico just
08:10 because she's an Aquarius like me, I have to say.
08:15 You know, everyone's-
08:16 She's got Nico colors on right now. I mean, a little bit of a spoiler to episode eight,
08:19 but yeah.
08:20 Yeah, there we go. I should have told her.
08:24 Well, thank you all so much. That's all the time I have.
08:29 Fembrills.