Under The Dome is an adaptation of Stephen King’s
novel of the same name and stars Dean Norris, Rachelle Lefevre, mike Vogel,
Colin Ford, Aisha Hinds, Alexander Koch, Natalie Martinez, Jolene Purdy, Britt
Robertson and Nicholas Strong.
In an interview to Collider, Alexander Koch, aka
Junior talks about getting the part and his character.
“How
did you come to be a part of this show? Were you just auditioning for
pilot season?
ALEXANDER KOCH: I had just moved to L.A., in the beginning
of September. I was getting ready for pilot season. I had been with
my manager for a while, and then I got an agent from my school showcase.
My manager got the script for Under the Dome, and I read it and just fell
in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his
whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events
happening, so it just made sense. I was so enthralled by the script, and
I thought it was so different from anything I had read before. I just had
a good feeling about it, and I knew how to approach the character.
And
this was the first pilot you had ever auditioned for, right?
KOCH: Yeah.
When
you got the first pilot that you audition for, do you have a moment where you
stop and realize that things don’t generally happen that way for actors?
KOCH: I’ve been told that, many times. I wake up and
count my blessings, every day. I don’t know. I was at the right
time and right place, and it was the right role. It’s a role that I
really, really love and have so much fun with. I just fought, tooth and
nail, for it. I worked really hard. It was a long audition process
to get it. I started auditioning in late November, and I finally got cast
in January. Over Christmas break, I worked on the script. I didn’t
have much of a Christmas vacation, so it’s good that it paid off.
…
How
do you view Junior? Do you feel like he’s mentally unstable, or do you
think he believes what he’s doing is right?
KOCH: When I was doing research for the role, I was thinking
about the kind of people who have these obsessive qualities. I thought
about John Hinckley, Jr., who had this obsession with Jodie Foster where he
built things up in his head. With Junior, I don’t think he’s mentally
unstable. I think he comes from this very broken place of losing his
mother, as a child, and the process of her going a little bit crazy and seeing
that, as a child, was very traumatic for him and it led him down a darker path.
He’s disconnected from his father (Dean Norris), but still lives with him even
though he doesn’t have a good, solid relationship with him, while missing a
component of the family that was very soft and nurturing, he’s this boy trying
to be a man because his father is pushing him. I think that’s what shaped
Junior into the person that he is. There’s very much the public persona
of Junior, who is the athlete and town jock and hero. That’s what his dad
wants him to be. And he’s a little bit of a bully. When he’s with
Angie, you see that he has softness to him that she brings out. He feels
comfortable and can let his guard down with her, and that’s why he loves her so
much. Once she leaves him, he needs to get that love back, in any way
that he can, and he finds a pretty dramatic way to do it.
…”
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