Joseph Purcell dropped out of community college three months after watching Heath Ledger’s interrogation scene from “The Dark Knight” in his apartment. Now he’s one of the breakout faces in microdramas, the mobile-first format generating billions in revenue and reshaping how audiences consume serialized content.
The 26-year-old Australian-born actor and son of “Prison Break” star Dominic Purcell had a few drinks with friends one night, and re-watched the film. “The interrogation scene came up,” Purcell says in a recent interview over Zoom. “I was floored by it for the first time.” After performing the scene for friends, “I was like, ‘OK, this is what I want to do.’ And
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