Belmont Cameli mentioned the tattoo on Garrett's back in 1x01 on The Kelly Clarkson show yesterday. This is part of his process of building out a new character.
I did. So Garrett Graham in the books has a tattoo which is just a flame on his bicep. And so I knew that I was sort of going to want to add a tattoo to him. And while I was building the character out this mantra kept popping up in my head. It was my high school wrestling mantra. Latin for there is no free lunch which basically means that everything in life is earned. Everything has a cost. And that is really who my character was. So I kept thinking of it and writing it on my scripts. I pitched the idea to our Showrunners and they ran it up the chain. And it got approved so I kind of got to put my fingerprints on the character which is really special.
I've noticed other things on the show as well that are Garrett / Belmont Easter eggs. I'm not sure if these are intentional or not but they help build out the character around him.
When Hannah is telling Garrett about her assault in 1x04 you see a Connect 4 game on the table behind her. Eli and Auden play Connect 4 at the pie shop in Along For The Ride.
Also in 1x04 Garrett is standing by his dresser and you can see a framed album cover on the wall. Belmont mentioned in his Schön interview for Until Dawn that he likes to make collage art out of album covers.
When Schön! connects with Cameli, he’s sitting in what he describes as his “workstation.” Behind him, a wall of vinyl records catches the eye. They’re not just decoration but an active passion for the Illinois-born actor. “I collage record covers,” Cameli explains, smiling. “Wherever I am, I’ll go to the dollar bins, grab as many as I can just based on the artwork, and then I glue them down, frame them, or just pin them up. I’m working on a really big one for my bedroom right now.” This space, filled with records he’s deemed too scratched or dusty to keep spinning, is where Cameli relaxes, creates, and occasionally makes music — a drum set lurks nearby. “The records I actually spin are downstairs next to my player,” he says. It’s a grounding space for someone whose professional life has been anything but still lately.
