Locke and Key: Exclusive Interview with Jackson Robert Scott

Earlier this week, we had the great pleasure of getting together with prolific young actor Jackson Robert Scott over Zoom! We celebrated the end of an era with Locke & Key, and Jackson shared his favorite key in the series, how he stays so scary in character, and reveals whether or not he cried on the final day of filming. Jackson also generously told us about a new project he can’t wait for people to see, and shared a powerful takeaway from one of our festival favorites, Gossamer Folds!

In-universe, it has been two months since Tyler (Connor Jessup, Closet Monster, American Crime) left home at Keyhouse for Cascade County, Montana, his memories of magic wiped away after his 18th birthday in the wake of his girlfriend’s tragic death. Almost immediately, the matriarch, Nina (Darby Stanchfield, Scandal, Mad Men), discovers a mysterious snow globe that has fallen from a shelf… Bode (Jackson Robert Scott, Stephen King’s It, The Prodigy) soon hears a whispering from inside the fridge, and uncovers a key with a snowflake symbol on the end that he dubs The Snow Globe Key. Everyone is trying to move on in Tyler’s absence—Kinsey (Emilia Jones, CODA) is finishing up her no-budget horror sequel, The Splattering 2, with her quirky group of film-nerd friends; Nina invites Josh (Brendan Hines) as her plus one to Duncan’s approaching wedding; Bode’s friendship with Josh’s daughter, Jamie (Liyou Abere), appears stronger than ever as he continues playing and experimenting with keys, including a new one that turns the user into an animal. Kinsey keeps reaching out to Tyler for him to return home for, at the very least, the wedding of Uncle Duncan (Aaron Ashmore, Smallville, Animorphs), but can barely get him to “like” her texts, let alone fully respond. Meanwhile, true evil is lurking in Matheson. Awakened in last season’s finale by the demonic Eden, Gideon (Kevin Durand, The Strain, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) is basically the new Big Bad. On Gideon’s agenda is finding a way to obtain all the keys made from Whispering Iron—with every key together, Gideon can fully open the portal to merge the demon world and the human world! Helping him along the way are two evil cronies who emerge from the snow globe, along with colonial “Echo” henchmen he revives. A war is brewing between Gideon and the Lockes, and where better to have a big showdown than at Keyhouse?

As our youngest interviewee yet at just 13 years old, it was a total blast to connect with Jackson! We cannot wait to see what else he does from here, be it horror, drama, or something else in between!

Written portion of the interview is coming soon!

We reviewed the final season of Locke & Key as well here: https://joshatthemovies.com/2022/08/0...

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