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Ex-kid star Gabriel Basso gets tough in spy thriller ‘The Night Agent’

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Netflix thriller “The Night Agent.” “I don’t think I’ve ever played a character like this as an adult,” Basso, 28, told The Post.“I was a child actor, really [before].

So, all I had to do was be a kid. This was the first role as an adult where I sort of was put in positions that I hadn’t been in before — a lot of action stuff, which was cool, because I love all that.” Based on a novel by Matthew Quirk, “The Night Agent,” was created by Shawn Ryan (“The Shield”) and follows Peter Sutherland (Basso), a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning an emergency hotline for American spies that never rings.

When the phone mysteriously breaks its silence one night, it sends Peter into dangerous uncharted waters, and he must work to protect a civilian, Rose (Luciane Buchanan, “Sweet Tooth” ) while also uncovering a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Oval Office. “When I had initially sat down with Shawn [Ryan], he was talking about how grounded he wanted to make it, and how interested in character he was over the big plot and action, how it was all character motivated,” said Basso.“I thought that was unique within the genre.

In action, it sometimes feels gratuitous. It was nice to hear that his vision for it was character-based, and not so much stimulus based.“I think Peter’s perseverance in the face of adversity is admirable, and I liked that about him.

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