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Comic-Con: Dexter Is a Bunch of Sociopathic Chocolate kisses
[Posted by Liz Shannon Miller]
COMIC-CON -- The "Dexter" fanbase turned out in force Thursday night, primarily for the chance to ask what it's like to play likeable serial killer Dexter Morgan. In between scarfing chocolate kisses on the table (having been stuck in traffic all afternoon, "Dexter" star Michael C. Hall was starving), Hall said the character was fun and challenging. "He confides in the audience in a way that he doesn't confide with anyone else on the show," he said. "And if you watch the show, you find yourself implicated in these events."
Hall wouldn't get into how his relationship with Rita (Julie Benz) evolves in the upcoming season, but, per footage screened prior to the panel, "He's definitely learned how to have sex. That I'll cop to."
Said Benz, "(Rita) truly sees the good in Dexter. Even if there was DNA evidence and photos in front of her, she still wouldn't believe it was true.
"Every man needs a hobby," Benz said."Some men play golf." ("At least it's not a boring hobby," moderator Kristin Dos Santos agreed.)
Nonetheless, the panelists agreed that the show's dark nature affected all of them. Producer Clyde Phillips said one writer's assistant on the first season left after the first few episodes because she was "bringing it home with her."
"The longer you do it, the easier it gets to decompress," Hall said.
Regarding the series' repurposing for CBS, Phillips said the cuts made by CBS, in order of priority, were for time, language, nudity, and finally, for gore. "We're really not that gory a show. If you add up two years of what we've done, we've only done a few minutes total." However, everyone seemed happy to exchange the content for the chance to reach a larger audience.
"'Dexter" first came to CBS because of the writers' strike, but it also fit into the networks' pattern of crime shows. However, while no one believed the possibility of a "Dexter" crossover was likely, Hall floated the idea of a "CSI: Miami" guest appearance -- where, in his role as a crime scene analyst, all he would do is help solve a crime.
"Dexter" season 3 airs on Showtime this fall.
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Dexter certainly has learned how to "knock boots". I love the trailer.
Check it out if you haven't already.
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Posted by: Rommel | July 25, 2008 at 11:03 AM