Dan is lamenting his estranged relationship together with his daughter — by his personal making — within the fifth episode of Paramount+’s new streaming sequence “Deadly Attraction,” and POPSUGAR has an unique first look. In a clip from the upcoming installment, airing Sunday, Might 14, Dan (performed by Joshua Jackson) and grownup Ellen (Alyssa Jirrels) focus on their ingesting preferences, with Ellen telling her father she is a fan of bourbon — a trait he reveals she’s gotten from her grandfather.
“There was a very long time there the place I used to be daydreaming about Bloody Marys, which had been by no means actually my factor,” Dan admits within the clip, reflecting on his time in jail for the homicide of his former mistress, Alex. “Now I am right here and all I actually need is a beer.”
The dialog then pivots to be about how disconnected he and Ellen are, as he opted to not proceed a relationship together with his daughter when he was locked up. On the time, Ellen was only a little one.
Dan laments that it is difficult that “after lacking all these years to sit down right here and really feel like I do know you however to know much less about you than anyone who barely is aware of you.”
Throughout a current interview with POPSUGAR, Jackson particularly addressed Dan’s choice to sever ties with Ellen whereas incarcerated, noting it isn’t a selection he would personally make — particularly now that he is a father. Defined Jackson, “It is onerous for me to conceive of, as a father, something that might hold me away from my daughter in any respect. The story is ‘Deadly Attraction,’ however the piece that was for me so fascinating was precisely that. How egomaniacal do it’s important to be to decide on the preservation of your individual self-image over the chance to lift your little one?”
“Deadly Attraction” is a remake of the 1987’s hit thriller of the identical identify. The Paramount+ adaptation provides a future timeline to the story, trying on the aftermath of the lethal affair on the middle of the story. New episodes of “Deadly Attraction” start streaming on Sundays.