What To Know
- Sam Worthington, an Australian actor, had to master the Boston accent for Harlan Coben’s new I Will Find You series.
- The actor told TV Insider he had some help from one of his costars.
In Harlan Coben’s new thriller series for Netflix, I Will Find You, Sam Worthington stars as David Burroughs, a man who has been wrongly convicted of murdering his own son and gets a new lease on life when his former sister-in-law sees a photo of a child she believes to be his child, alive and well. It’s the first American-set adaptation of Coben’s collection, and the action takes place largely in Boston, which meant Worthington (who was born in England but raised in Australia) had to master one of America’s toughest dialects.
Luckily for Worthington, he had a costar who was a native of the area and was all too willing to push him when needed.
“We also had an actor on there, Jonathan Tucker, who’s born and bred in Boston, so he just rode us,” Worthington told TV Insider. “He would just always be on your back if there were certain words or phrases that he felt were wrong or not right.”
Worthington added that mastering the dialect was only part of the job in successfully portraying a Bostonian: “Mainly, we were looking for the Boston spirit, too,” he explained.
“Boston strong, as they say,” series star Britt Lower added.
In the series, Tucker portrays Adam Mackenzie, a longtime friend of Burroughs’ and the son of the warden who looks out for Burroughs on the inside. When Adam learns of the photo — and sees the attacks on David that soon follow that revelation — he and his father work to assist David in escaping the prison so that he can find out the truth about his boy.
The eight-episode series, based on Coben’s book of the same name, premiered in full on Netflix on Thursday, June 18, and also stars Milo Ventimiglia, Madeleine Stowe, Logan Browning, Chi McBride, Clancy Brown, Erin Richards, and more. Read more on what the cast had to say about the twisty events of I Will Find You right here.
I Will Find You, Streaming Now, Netflix
