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"The Nightmare is Real"
Alan Ruck, known for roles in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and "Spin City", plays father figure Henry Rance – once a successful civil engineer who is now a prisoner inside his own body following a traumatic accident.
"There will be moments of extreme lucidity but also descents into sort of a fugue state," says Ruck of his character. "This gave Henry more to do and allowed him to be more of a presence than just poor old Henry in the chair. Every now and then, Henry wakes up from his nap and realizes that the nightmare is real. I think that it's every parent's nightmare that someday, somewhere, somehow, 'My kid is going to be hurt, and I'm not going to be able to stop it.'"
Showrunner Slater adds, "In a way, Henry is going through the same thing as his daughter. They both aren't necessarily in control of their own actions. They're both prisoners inside their own mind. It wound up creating some really interesting parallels between the two characters."
Alan Ruck, known for roles in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and "Spin City", plays father figure Henry Rance – once a successful civil engineer who is now a prisoner inside his own body following a traumatic accident.
"There will be moments of extreme lucidity but also descents into sort of a fugue state," says Ruck of his character. "This gave Henry more to do and allowed him to be more of a presence than just poor old Henry in the chair. Every now and then, Henry wakes up from his nap and realizes that the nightmare is real. I think that it's every parent's nightmare that someday, somewhere, somehow, 'My kid is going to be hurt, and I'm not going to be able to stop it.'"
Showrunner Slater adds, "In a way, Henry is going through the same thing as his daughter. They both aren't necessarily in control of their own actions. They're both prisoners inside their own mind. It wound up creating some really interesting parallels between the two characters."