‘The Hardy Boys’ stars reminisce as show’s final season airs | 24CA News
As YTV’s The Hardy Boys enters its remaining chapter, the present’s stars say they’re happy with the way in which the newest display adaptation of the basic e-book sequence has bridged generations of followers since its 2020 debut.
“I remember scrolling down a few IMDb reviews and I saw a whole paragraph and it was this guy who went into so much detail about how he’s 60 years old and grew up reading the books and that he now gets to share it with his kids,” stated 18-year-old Toronto actor Alexander Elliot, who performs Joe Hardy, the youthful of the 2 titular teenage brothers and newbie thriller solvers.
“That kind of just melted my heart and the ability to reach every part of that legacy is really special.”
Rohan Campbell, the 25-year-old Alberta-born actor who performs older brother Frank Hardy, stated the present’s attraction — very similar to latest TV and movie iterations of older tales and popular culture phenomena comes right down to nostalgia.
“I can’t imagine how cool it must be as a parent to be able to see your child experience something that you also experienced at their age, and share the joy you felt, it’s what comes to mind,” he stated in an interview.
The present is impressed by the favored thriller e-book sequence that debuted practically a century in the past, written by numerous ghostwriters — together with Canadian Leslie McFarlane — beneath the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. The books have been tailored for TV earlier than, however this model has been marketed as a darker spin on the basic tales set within the Nineteen Eighties.
In the third and remaining season of The Hardy Boys, the brothers face one other problem of their fictional city of Bridgeport after they obtain posthumous steerage from their grandmother looking for a robust relic that may spell hazard within the mistaken palms.
Campbell stated the tonal shift and the attraction to newer generations is just like what he sees in films just like the just lately launched blockbuster Barbie.
“Any through line of communication between generations is so special,” he stated. “Anything the place the youth can sit down with the subsequent technology above them and be joyful collectively, escape collectively and be in the identical house shouldn’t be actually measurable.
“It kind of feels like you’re a piece of history in a weird way because 40 years from now, somebody else may pick up a project like ours and do a rendition on it. … It feels really cool to be able to stamp the ‘Hardy Boys’ passport.”
Much like his co-star, Elliot says he developed a newfound love for the ’80s, together with DeLorean automobiles and Back to the Future replays, through the present’s three-year run.
Elliot and Campbell say they’re grateful for the expertise and the audiences they’ve gained over three seasons and they’ll carry that with them because the Canadian Screen Award-winning sequence ends.
“I grew up with these people and gained a second family,” Campbell stated. “I don’t think I would have the confidence to move on and do the stuff I’ve done if it wasn’t for the space that the show gave me it’s been really incredible.”
Season 3 of The Hardy Boys premieres Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on YTV and is offered to stream stay and on demand on STACKTV. It additionally streams on Hulu within the U.S.
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