Eric Interview: Benedict Cumberbatch & Gaby Hoffmann on Netflix Drama By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Eric stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Gaby Hoffmann about the , which is now streaming. The six-part thriller drama also stars McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler, and Clarke Peters. “Set in 1980s New York, Eric is a new emotional thriller from Abi Morgan following the desperate search of a father when his nine-year-old son disappears one morning on the way to school.
Vincent, one of New York’s leading puppeteers and creator of the hugely popular children’s television show, ‘Good Day Sunshine,’ struggles to cope with the loss of his son, Edgar, becoming increasingly distressed and volatile,” says the synopsis for . “Full of self-loathing and guilt around Edgar’s disappearance, he clings to his son’s drawings of a blue monster puppet, Eric, convinced that if he can get Eric on TV then Edgar will come home. As Vincent’s progressively destructive behavior alienates his family, his work colleagues, and the detectives trying to help him, it’s Eric, a delusion of necessity, who becomes his only ally in the pursuit to bring his son home.
” : It was shockingly easy to start fighting with Benedict right off the bat [laughs]. No, really so much of it is there in the brilliant writing of and then to have Lucy Forbes, the most capable director of all, to help guide us through it. But we talked a little bit about it leading in.
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