'Adults' star Jack Innanen breaks down the Charlie Cox moment that made him gag on set
While Adults (on Disney+ in Canada, Hulu in the U.S.) has already been making us laugh every week, Episode 6 of the show is absolutely outrageous, in the best way. Speaking to Yahoo Canada in Toronto, one of the show's stars, Canadian Jack Innanen, talked about all the entertaining chaos in that episode, featuring Charlie Cox and Julia Fox.
The core story for Episode 6 is that Billie (Lucy Freyer) wants to host a dinner party, with the hopes of showing a mature side of herself and her friends to her boyfriend, her former high school teacher, played by Cox. As Billie says, it's their "roast chicken" era.
While everyone seems to at least be trying their best to be mature, things take a turn when Billie's boyfriend shows up and tells Samir (Malik Elassal) that he's high on a "pony dose" of ketamin, stressing that Samir can't tell anyone. But Samir can't help but tell his friends, but not Billie, as her boyfriend starts acting more and more bizarre.
To add to the chaos, Paul Baker (Innanen) invites a friend to dinner, and it happens to be Julia Fox (playing herself), who makes his girlfriend Issa (Amita Rao) jealous.
"I think the episode pretty much captured what it was like in real life," Innanen said. "I had a couple moments where I was just looking around like, 'What are we doing? This is awesome.'"
"It was chaotic. Charlie, [he does this] dance and that was all him. And I remember he was just really into it and killing it. And I was standing off to the side just to watch. ... And then Julia, ... I'm pretty sure she just improvised every one of her lines, and it's so perfect. And it's so her that it was just like a master class. ... A bunch of takes my mouth is just open because I'm just like, 'Wow.!"
It all leads to Billie serving a raw chicken, not knowing that it needed to be thawed before going in the oven. But in Mr. Teacher's high, he just keeps cutting this raw meat, with blood splattering, and it looks absolutely revolting. And then Cox's character starts eating the raw meat. For Innanen, that made him feel queasy on set.
"I gagged. For real," Innanen said. "I don't do well with raw meat."
"Someone else gagged too, which made me gag. ... What he ate, obviously, was like a gelatin thing. ... But it was real raw chicken on my plate. ... The best part was that we went to lunch right after that, and they were serving chicken, and it stayed absolutely untouched. Not a single person, like all 100 of the cast and crew, no one touched the chicken."
And after that, Cox's character has a completely breakdown, with his ex-wife having to come get him out of Samir's parents home.
With Episode 6 already being a highlight, looking ahead in the season, Innanen teased that Episode 8 includes a particularly shocking moment.
"The last like 20 seconds of Episode 8, I've heard ... a lot of people go, 'Whoa. I wasn't expecting that,'" Innanen teased. "And so there's a little bit of a bomb drop, mic drop, at the end of eight that I think throws a little bit of a wrench in the group."
We can't wait to watch more Adults for the rest of the season, but maybe with less raw chicken.
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