So far, Worthy said, he’s only seen the first episode of The Act-but the actor doesn’t think he’ll watch any in which he appears. I’m not saying you should forgive or forget, but I do think it’s important that a person isn’t just defined by the worst day of their life.” “It’s too easy sometimes to look at these people and just condemn. “I felt like Nick really fell through the cracks in our system,” Worthy said.
” Godejohn’s attorney denied his request for a meeting.Īfter all those months of preparation, Worthy came away with a real sense of sympathy for the character-and the man on whom he’s based. Since he already knew the details of the crime, Worthy also wanted to meet Godejohn in person “to know who he was before, and really put the pieces together as to what his life looked like leading up to. I’d listen to it again at the end of the day, to make sure I just continually had his voice in my head.” (“I wanted to remember that there was a lot of life that he lived before it led up to this moment,” Worthy explained.) As he was getting ready almost every morning, Worthy said, “I would put on Nick’s interrogation and listen to that, about an hour and a half long. Worthy also made a photo of Godejohn, taken before the murder, the background on his phone, and kept it there throughout filming-about a five-month process, by his estimate. “Because I knew that if I didn’t get it right, I would be disappointing myself, and the autistic community as well.” “I just decided that I really had to fully commit myself to the research leading up to it, and I had to ask as many people that are specialists all the questions that I had,” Worthy said ahead of his first appearance on the series-in Episode 4, “Stay Inside,” which premieres Wednesday. After all, Godejohn is still alive, serving out a life sentence in prison he also has autism spectrum disorder, unlike Worthy, who is neurotypical.
It’s a completely committed performance, which reflects Worthy’s determination to get things right. But after his first episode of The Act airs Wednesday, he’ll be known as someone else: Nick Godejohn, the hapless pizza-shop employee who murdered the abusive mother of his girlfriend, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, in 2015.Īs Godejohn, Worthy is both empathetic and creepy-a loner you kind of, sort of, root for, until you remember the horrific act he and Gypsy (played in the series by Joey King) eventually committed together. Binge-watching millennials probably recognize him as Alex Trimboli, the incurably geeky outcast from American Vandal’s first season. Younger viewers might instantly identify him as Dez, the aspiring director who obsessively films everything in the Disney series Austin & Ally.
Canadian actor Calum Worthy has been many things to many people.
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