'Chicago Med' alum Colin Donnell heads Down Below in his new drama that makes use of 'all of the instruments' in his field to create a 'actually difficult, multi-dimensional particular person.'
Colin Donnell goes from prison mediator to reverend when he finds himself trapped in a small seashore city in Australia. In his new Peacock sequence Irreverent, Colin’s character should moonlight because the devoted Reverend Mack whereas looking for a technique to make a swift exit earlier than his previous catches as much as him. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Colin about diving deep into this meaty function.
From the primary learn, I simply cherished it. I cherished the world that Paddy Macrae constructed. I cherished that Mack/Paulo is such an advanced man. I felt prefer it was a possibility for me to do one thing totally different than folks have seen me do on tv earlier than,” Colin mentioned. “It’s such a humorous present, and there’s a lot humor. After which on the alternative facet of that, you have got a lot coronary heart, and you've got such a beautiful story about neighborhood and private development that it felt like I used to be going to have the ability to use all of the instruments in my field to create a very difficult, multi-dimensional particular person for folks to look at.”
Mack/Paulo will face “hassle” at each flip, Colin teased. “There’s the hazard that's coming after him from Chicago. There's the hazard of being came upon not solely by the police inside the city however actually by the neighborhood at giant,” the actor informed HollywoodLife. “He’s having to make use of all of the instruments that he had again in Chicago as a negotiator for the mafia to actually pretend all people out and make them suppose that he's this reverend in a random church in the midst of nowhere.”
Colin famous that the “engine of our present” is Mack/Paulo “figuring issues out on the fly whether or not it’s how you can pretend the reverend stuff, or whether or not it’s how you can discover some cash to get the heck out of there. Alongside the way in which, he begins forming these surprising relationships, like with Daisy and with Piper. That’s actually the meat of the place issues begin to change for him personally.”
Daisy, performed by Tegan Stimson, will shortly turn into an “important a part of his reverend persona,” in keeping with Colin. The actor added, “But additionally, we discover out in a short time that she’s not precisely a goody-two-shoes, they usually might help one another out in lots of other ways. Not solely is she serving to him to play-act at what he’s making an attempt to do for the city, however she has just a little hand in his not-so-reverend-like habits.”
The Peacock sequence was filmed on location in Australia, which Colin known as an “wonderful” expertise. “I used to be in a position to take my spouse and daughter over there with me. For the primary two and a half months, we had been in a really small city known as Mission Seashore in Far North Queensland, which was our Clump. And identical to Max — a fish out of water in Clump — Patti [Murin], Cecily, and I had been very a lot fishes out of water in Mission Seashore.”
Colin continued, “However the city itself, which I imply, actually performs its personal character within the present, they had been so welcoming so shortly, not solely to me however to my household and the entire manufacturing that it simply made for a beautiful type of actually fulfilling expertise. I don’t suppose that we might have completed half of the issues we did with out the help of the neighborhood there. It’s eternally going to be a very particular place for us.” Irreverent is now streaming on Peacock.