Josh Hartnett is giving Canadians his best Newfoundland accent in the first teaser video for the upcoming Netflix <a href="https://comicvibe.com/lucky-cat-cg01-venus-mp-arcee-cyber-goddess-series-in/” title=”Lucky Cat CG01 Venus (MP Arcee) Cyber Goddess Series In”>series Below, premiering Oct. 8. The six-episode thriller show was filmed in the Canadian province, and the Pearl Harbor, The Virgin SuicidesandOppenheimerstar plays Calvin Penney, described as “a big‑hearted but stubborn fisherman,” who’s still haunted by his father’s mysterious death.
Created by Jesse McKeown, who was a writer on The Umbrella Academy, the show begins with an unidentified sea creature terrorizing the small Newfoundland community. Calvin fights to protect his hometown, including keeping his son, Wade, played by Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton, and the rest of his family safe.
To do so, Calvin joins forces with a visiting marine researcher, Fonda Howander, played by Mackenzie Davis, and buried secrets on the island are revealed.
The series also stars Willow Kean, Ruby Stokes, Rohan Campbell and Kaleb Horn.
“He is a guy who has had a series of setbacks and tragedies in his life starting at a young age,” Hartnett told Tudum. “He’s felt that he’s cursed and that his place in the world is untenable, that even his community doesn’t see the point of him, and he lives in a very small community, so he feels untethered.”
“I read the first two scripts in less than an hour. The voice was so clear, the concept was so engaging, and the character was fantastic. I’d never read anything like it before. I had never read anything that was set in Newfoundland before. I didn’t understand the long history of Newfoundland being its own country and having its own dialect and its own very specific ancestry.”
In order to get the accent, Hartnett listened to a local Newfoundland radio station, hearing fishermen discuss their trade. Meanwhile, Heaton would hang out outside bars in St. John’s to feel immersed in the culture.
“[One of the actors] and I went off with a couple of lobsters, a pot, grabbed some water out of the sea, and he told me all these stories,” Hartnett recalled to Tudum. “He had so much knowledge of the history of the island and the people; listening to him speak helped a lot.”
“When you meet Newfoundlanders, they want to bring you in, and they want to look after you,” Heaton added. “I remember on day one, my driver said, ‘Let me know if you want me to bring supper around later. I live down the road.'”
“I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ She said, ‘Oh, I’ll just bring you supper, it’s no problem.'”
As McKeown told Tudum, as someone who has been visiting Newfoundland for years, he’s always wanted to create a series set in the province, specifically something that can really use its unique landscape, and also showcase the warmth of the local communities.
“It’s such a unique landscape and such a rugged, dangerous, isolated, scary place in a lot of ways,” the statement from McKeown reads. “But then there’s also this other side to it, which is that the community is so warm and the people are so funny and unique and there are so many eccentricities about the place.”
