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Meet Richie Moriarty ’02, the guy with the arrow stuck in his neck on the hit show 鬼魂.
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的情景喜剧 鬼魂 was still in its first season when a Halloween trick-or-treater showed up in 2021 at Richie Moriarty’s house, dressed as the character Moriarty plays on the hit CBS show. “我惊呆了，”莫里亚蒂02说. The actor had been working as a journeyman performer for years, steadily building a portfolio of voiceover work, 客串电视节目, 和广告. 但 鬼魂 他的第一个常规角色是什么, given the uncertainty of any show gaining a following, he had no way of knowing if it would ever find a committed audience. 但在这里, 只看了几集, 有人在看的证据吗, 甚至和他的角色联系在一起, 皮特·马蒂诺.
It helps that Pete has a pretty distinctive look. 他是个鬼, 当然, in every episode he’s wearing exactly what he was in the moment of his death: a Boy Scout uniform with the arrow that did him in sticking through his neck. He’s just one of the many spirits on the show who can suddenly be seen and talked to by a young woman after her near-death experience. 鬼魂 是一部喜剧, 还有一点悲剧, Moriarty’s role is to embody all of that while emoting around the arrow, 或者正因为如此. It’s quite the journey for a guy who never thought about becoming an actor until he was in his mid-twenties.
Moriarty didn’t have a noticeable passion for performing while growing up in Maryland, 虽然种子在那里. “I just remember him always being very funny,” said his sister, Colleen 莫里亚蒂瑞安 ’99. 但 it wasn’t until he had graduated from BC with a degree in communications and was working as a real estate photographer in the Boston area that he began to perform with any regularity. That was after a friend who was taking an improv class suggested he give it a try as a way to meet people. He took a few classes in 2004 and “very quickly, things snowballed from there,他说. “It ignited something within me that hasn’t gone away since.” Two years later, he joined the Boston sketch comedy troupe Improv Asylum. The experience helped him to develop the important skill of working with an ensemble, also gave him instant audience feedback on what was working with his performances and what wasn’t.
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By 2010, Moriarty had teamed up with his fellow Improv Asylum performer Matt Catanzano to create comedy videos. Their work gained the attention of producers at the influential New York production studio Broadway Video, 热播剧背后的原因是什么 周六夜现场, 30岩石, 吉米·法伦主演的今夜秀, 《赛斯·迈耶斯深夜秀. The company started giving them money to make videos, 是什么提高了产品质量, 2013年, he moved to New York and quickly started booking national television commercials, including one for an NFL playoff game in which his character tries to direct the actor John Malkovich in a football ad. He also managed to land guest spots on shows ranging from the acclaimed Netflix comedy 坚不可摧的吉米·施密特 FX的吸血鬼假纪录片 我们在阴影中做什么.
然后，在2020年2月，出现了 鬼魂 试镜. As written, Pete had “a lot of Ned Flanders in him,” Moriarty said. “There’s a lot of super optimistic and cheery—almost to a fault—attitude the character has.” Moriarty’s take on the character is inspired by his dad, a warm and welcoming pediatrician. After some pandemic-related shooting delays, the first season premiered in 2021.
After years of making his own projects and stepping into other shows only briefly, Moriarty says he is relieved to be working on such a friendly, collaborative set making something he’s proud of. “It’s just the nicest group of people making this show,他说. “我非常感激.”
Moriarty’s costar Rose McIver said she’ll often ask fans which ghost they most relate to. “And there’s a lot of people who do really connect with Pete and really like his optimism,”她说。, 这在很大程度上归功于他的演技. “There’s a kind of fragility to his enthusiasm that we can feel we’re on the edge of at any moment that Richie nails,她解释道.
莫里亚蒂的成功似乎迅速得令人印象深刻, 但对他妹妹来说, 莫里亚蒂瑞安, the only surprise is that it didn’t come sooner. “We were surprised by how long it took,”她说。. “Because we were like, 当然 this is going to happen.”
Catanzano agreed that making it in the acting business was an inevitability for his comedy video cocreator. “Richie is someone that people gravitate toward,” Catanzano said. “He’s the one you’d see in a show and you’d be like, ‘oh, the show probably runs because he’s there.’”
鬼魂 现在正在拍摄第三季吗. The ten-person cast is unusually large for a sitcom, but that’s part of what Moriarty enjoys about the show. 这让他想起了自己即兴表演的日子. “To enter into this show that is such an ensemble comedy in the truest sense…I find it so comfortable,他说. “我就是喜欢这种喜剧风格.”
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