{"id":281445,"date":"2025-10-06T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281445\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:56:10","slug":"task-star-jamie-mcshane-on-perry-drowning-eryn-in-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281445\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Task’ Star Jamie McShane on Perry Drowning Eryn in Episode 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT:<\/strong> This story contains spoilers from \u201cVagrants,\u201d Episode 5 of \u201cTask<\/a>,\u201d now streaming on HBO Max.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAmidst the backdrop of violent robberies of drug houses in Philadelphia, HBO\u2019s \u201cTask\u201d revolves around a group of field agents spearheaded by the FBI who are all on a mission to find a missing child. As Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo) inches closer to uncovering who is behind the burglaries, the task force is challenged by Perry Dorazo (Jamie McShane<\/a>), one of the leaders of the Dark Hearts motorcycle gang, who is also trying to find and kill whoever is responsible for robbing the local trap houses. With the FBI and the Dark Hearts both searching the Delaware County suburbs of Philly, each side finds themselves in a game of cat-and-mouse to find the culprit.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the Dark Hearts have discovered that the man they\u2019re looking for is Robbie Prendergast (Tom Pelphrey)<\/a> \u2014 an unassuming garbage collector, not only responsible for the deaths of multiple gang members, but for kidnapping Sam (Ben Doherty) \u2014 Episode 5 follows Perry as he investigates the Prendergasts\u2019 house for answers. As Perry begins to put together loose ends to uncover Sam\u2019s whereabouts, he questions his own judgment after he murders Eryn (Margarita Levieva) \u2014\u00a0the wife of Jayson (Sam Keeley), his close confidante and surrogate son \u2014 in the lake near the woods, after he discovered Eryn lied to him.<\/p>\n

\n\tMcShane spoke with Variety about staging the shocking drowning sequence, on-set injuries while filming Episode 5, and working on Season 2 of \u201cWednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tPerry visits the Prendergrast house in Episode 5, where he reunites with Maeve (Emilia Jones) after her father\u2019s death. From Maeve\u2019s perspective, she believes that Perry may have had something to do with her father\u2019s murder, even though she doesn\u2019t know that he was not involved in it. How do you imagine that Perry perceives seeing Maeve after all these years?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tEven if she suspects Perry, he had nothing to do with Billy\u2019s death. Perry didn\u2019t even know about her father\u2019s murder, and I don\u2019t think he really gave that much thought when he showed up to the family\u2019s house. He\u2019s just there to see what\u2019s going on, and he\u2019s shocked that she\u2019s such a big kid already. Even though he\u2019s talking to her, he\u2019s also doing his typical thing of trying to find further information to where Sam could be.<\/p>\n

\t\tThroughout the season, Perry and the rest of the Dark Hearts look down on the task force as they\u2019re trying to find Sam. The FBI has their own way of dealing with crimes in the town, similar to how the Dark Hearts have their own techniques. With these two rival groups, who is better at keeping things clean?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Dark Hearts have their ways of getting stuff done and finding things out that\u2019s going to be quicker and more effective in a way than the FBI. It depends how you define \u201cclean,\u201d because for legal purposes in the show, the ones who do that are the task force. But if someone needs something or someone to be taken care of, or to prevent something from coming back around, that would be the Dark Hearts.<\/p>\n

\t\tAfter Perry kills Eryn, he lingers around her body in utter shock. Even though Perry is the type of leader who can kill anyone with no remorse, in that moment, it almost feels like he regrets killing Eryn \u2014 especially because of how much he views Jason as a member of his family.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tPerry had no intention of killing Eryn. He tells her that he gave her a clean way out of her situation, and now they have to handle it differently. When he tells her to go, he\u2019s telling her that he\u2019s taking her back to confess to Jayson, who will find his own way to deal with her. When she runs away, he\u2019s trying to get her until he realizes that those kids are up [on the cliff] partying and playing, and Eryn is just screaming bloody murder. He tries to get her to be quiet while he\u2019s looking up at the kids, and he\u2019s just not fully realizing what he\u2019s doing. When it hits him, he\u2019s horrified, but then within that moment, the gangster mentality clicks inside.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhat was it like to shoot Eryn\u2019s death sequence, especially since the whole scene takes place in the woods and in the lake?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThat was a brutal shoot. As soon as I tried to get up from the water, which is on all sorts of loose rocks, I went down hard, and I snapped a tendon in my finger on the first take, and I couldn\u2019t straighten my right ring finger. They called the medic and they took me to the emergency room, because they had to see if it was broken or not. After every take, I literally had to pull my finger out and hold it. I went to Texas to film \u201c1923\u201d after working on \u201cTask\u201d where I had to shoot guns the whole time, and my finger was still messed up.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the last take, when Perry is walking away after floating Eryn\u2019s body out, I didn\u2019t want to go back to where I\u2019d fallen, so I went to a deeper area. I forgot that they told me not to go that way, and while the cameras were still rolling, I smashed my left shin on a jagged rock. So by the time I got out of there and got to urgent care, I\u2019m walking in with my pants rolled up and my legs bleeding, and the nurses were like \u201cOh, you\u2019re here for your leg,\u201d and I told them \u201cNo, I\u2019m here for my finger, but you might as well check that out too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tEarlier this year, you returned to your role as Sheriff Galpin on Netflix\u2019s \u201cWednesday.\u201d Between that role and your part as Perry, they\u2019re two incredibly different performances that you filmed around the same time. What is that experience like as you were jumping between the two?<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI was so fortunate to get both these roles. Working on \u201cWednesday\u201d was interesting, because we\u00a0filmed in Romania for Season 1. With Season 2, they filmed in Ireland. Even though I\u2019m not in a lot of scenes, it was enough where they had to fly me back and forth between shooting on \u201cTask.\u201d Luckily, my beard looked the same on both shows. After I was done working on \u201c1923,\u201d I went back to Ireland [to film \u201cWednesday\u201d]. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt was so incredibly fun to be back for Season 2, but I will say that \u201cTask\u201d is the best show I\u2019ve ever done in my career. It was absolutely fantastic to be a part of those two shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis interview has been edited and condensed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from \u201cVagrants,\u201d Episode 5 of \u201cTask,\u201d now streaming on HBO Max.\u00a0 Amidst…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,145337,104021,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-281445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jamie-mcshane","10":"tag-task","11":"tag-tv","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115326627738445675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}