Briana Cuoco spent some time at a butcher before filming Netflix Dead Boys Detectives.
“I kind of tailed her,” said Cuoco, the sister of Kaley Cuocotold Us weekly exclusively while promoting the upcoming series, in which she plays a character aptly named Jenny the Butcher.
“For legal reasons, there wasn’t really anything I could do,” the 35-year-old actress joked. “I’ve done a few things, but I thought, what if we had someone who actually knew what they were doing and didn’t get anyone’s fingers chopped off.”
Dead Boys Detectives is a comedy-drama series based on the DC Comics series of the same name and revolves around two teenagers, played by George Rexstrew (Edwin Payne) and Jayden Revri (Charles Rowland), who find each other in death and help solve supernatural crimes on Earth.
Briana Cuoco.
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With an already established fan base, Cuoco – along with co-stars Ruth Connell (The Night Nurse) and Jennifer Lyons (Esther) – said she “absolutely” feels pressure to live up to fans’ expectations.
“We all want everyone to love it and [writer] Neil [Gaiman] is so iconic and The Sandman is so iconic and Dead Boys have their own life beyond that,” Cuoco continued. “People really care about them, so we want them to love it.”
However, there is “a change from the original material,” 45-year-old Connell teased.
“There are a few changes that have given us more leeway to be more in the modern world we’re in right now,” he said Supernatural Alum added. “I think that’s important and I don’t think it takes away from the essence of the characters, but there was more scope.”
Apart from the comic fans, the families of the stars are also looking forward to the series finally coming to cinemas. (Dead Boys Detectives was originally picked up by Max in 2021 before moving to Netflix in 2023.)
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“It’s been a really long journey,” Cuoco said Us. “We talked about the show for years and then found a new home [SAG-AFTRA] Strike and all that stuff. But it all happens at the time it’s supposed to happen. Everything happens at the perfect time. So we’re all really excited.”
Connell chimed in, adding, “Everyone’s excited because they can watch it because it’s on Netflix. “Everyone can actually watch it, that’s one of the best things.”
Dead Boys Detectives is now streaming on Netflix.