This fall, AMC is adapting the Daniel Cole novel Ragdoll for its streaming service AMC+Venir de Tragamonedas Gratis Online. Premiering on November 11, the show follows the investigation of a murder of six people who have been dismembered and sewn together. Of course, one of the stars of the series is a prosthetic corpse, which looks a bit look like a gruesome Frankenstein’s monster.
“They are so technically on point, the people that made the props for this job, that I had a real panic after seeing it,” explained Thalissa Teixeira, who plays Detective Inspector Emily Baxter, during the show’s TCA press tour panel. “I think I’ve also gone into this deep, dark web hole of looking into real murder cases, which was the wrong thing to do when you’re waking up at 5:30 in the morning to then look at a strung up body that looks very, very real.”
Before shooting, the cast could have checked out the Ragdoll, but chose not to. “We all made the choice not to see it before the main scene where we discover it,” said Lucy Hale, who plays Detective Constable Lake Edmunds. “Although I was like trying to sneak pictures of it before, but I think it was like way more impactful obviously to see it all together for the first time.”
While the body itself was grotesque, some saw it as a work of art. I thought it was like a Renaissance painting,” said Henry Lloyd-Hughes, who plays Detective Sergeant Nathan Rose. “I could see the horror in it but I also thought it was like some of [artist] Damien Hirst’s finest work or maybe [artists] Jake and Dinos Chapman. It’s an amazing piece of artwork, a testament to the makers. Because the dental work, I was staring in his mouth–it smelled. You could see the fillings. I don’t know how you even go about doing that level of detail.”
A trailer for Ragdoll is not out yet, but during the TCA panel, journalists were shows a teaser for the upcoming show, and the corpse looked terrifying. However, the ragdoll corpse itself isn’t the only issue. The Ragdoll Killer has plans to kill–and sew–again, and taunts police by announcing its next victims, one of which is Rose. Ragdoll is executive produced by Sally Woodward Gentle of Sid Gentle Films Ltd. (Killing Eve). Freddy Syborn (Ms. Marvel, Bad Education) serves as lead writer and executive producer.