Brody tells EW that his 5-year-old daughter influenced his decision to play the man-child detective character.
His career was destined to be written in legend.
Cut to decades later, and Abe is still only solving kid mysteries.
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“I was so far ahead of the game.
One day I just woke up behind,” Brody’s voiceover says in the exclusive trailer above.
Brody tells EW that Abe is introduced as the “self-absorbed and somewhat pathetic sleuth.”
“He’s obviously stunted,” the formerO.C.star says.
“There’s unexamined trauma there.
In detective stories there are archetypes.
That includes sneaking into closets, hiding under beds, and slapping kids on stoops for disrespecting him.
Kid Detectiveis directed by first-time feature director Evan Morgan.
“Even in the darkest of times, I’m drawn to this macabre sense of humor.
Certainly, I have it.
Certainly, Evan does too,” he says.
“She asks me all day, it’s like, ‘What’s this?
What is that wire?
She just has like 1,000 questions of the world.
What I find myself always keeping in mind is how impressionable kids are.
I remember all that stuff.
The Kid Detectivecomes out this Friday, Oct. 16, in theaters.
Watch the trailer above.
Video courtesy of Stage 6.
