“Am I Going to Get Killed?” ‘Dexter Unique Sin’s Sarah Michelle Gellar and Patrick Dempsey Tease Their Characters within the Prequel Collection

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• At CCXP, Collider’s Steve Weintraub talks with Patrick Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar for Dexter: Unique Sin.
• The celebs be a part of Paramount+’s prequel collection Dexter: Unique Sin as Captain Aaron Spencer and Tanya Martin.
• Throughout their interview, Dempsey and Gellar focus on the conversations earlier than becoming a member of, how the present’s set compares to earlier reveals, and their characters.

For the prequel collection Dexter: Original Sin, Paramount+ is pulling out all of the stops. Not solely are we getting an origin story of kinds for the serial killer with a code, first made well-liked by Michael C. Corridor, however two of tv’s most iconic stars, Patrick Dempsey (Gray’s Anatomy) and Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), are becoming a member of this collection’ franchise.

In addition to Corridor, who will voice Dexter Morgan’s (Patrick Gibson) inside monologue, no one from the original series is reprising their roles. Nevertheless, lots of the characters we got here to like (or hate) at the moment are performed by new faces. In Dempsey and Gellar’s case, Captain Aaron Spencer and Tanya Martin are completely new characters to discover, and it looks as if that they had a blast on set with co-stars Christian Slater, Gibson, Molly Brown, and extra.

While at CCXP in Brazil for the Unique Sin panel, Dempsey and Gellar sat down with Collider’s Steve Weintraub to debate their choice to hitch the present. Having each been pivotal elements of long-running reveals Gray’s Anatomy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, these two aren’t any stranger to the “large dedication” and share the values they search for in a manufacturing earlier than signing on. In addition they discuss in regards to the questions that they had for his or her characters and extra. Try the total dialog within the video above or within the transcript under.

Why Sarah Michelle Gellar and Patrick Dempsey Signed on for ‘Dexter: Unique Sin’

“Even with all of the darkness, there’s an ideal humorousness about it.”

COLLIDER: We’re at CCXP, and lots of people right here accumulate issues. Is there something that you simply accumulate or used to gather?

SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR: I can reply what you accumulate. These. [Points to Patrick Dempsey’s watch]

PATRICK DEMPSEY: I accumulate watches and automobiles. There’s really a very cool automotive assortment right here, positively. Actually some nice automobiles round her. And, after all, they’re recognized for his or her racetrack — Formulation 1 after which Formulation E is that this weekend.

GELLAR: I accumulate first-edition books.

DEMPSEY: She by no means stops studying. She’s all the time studying on set. By no means stops.

Shifting into why I get to speak to you guys right now. One of many issues about this present is that your characters are model new. They weren’t within the unique. Whenever you signed on, how a lot had been you informed in regards to the final arc of your characters, and the way a lot had been you want, “Dexter? Oh, I’m simply signing on?”

DEMPSEY: It was each. It was like, “Oh, I am positively , however I wish to have a gathering. What’s the character? The place is that this going?” After which I sat down, and I had an ideal dialog with everybody. I liked the path. It was actually open to wherever they wished to go, so I used to be like, “I am in. I am in for the trip.”

GELLAR: I knew, as effectively. They positively had been very upfront and mentioned, “That is what we’d love to do. That is the thought.” I feel at this level, for me to signal on to do one thing, I have to know that stuff. You are all the time making a giant dedication.

DEMPSEY: And it is the tradition, too, Clyde [Phillips] and the crew have put collectively. It was actually pretty, well-organized, actually protected, actually enjoyable. Even with all of the darkness, there’s an ideal humorousness about it.

Sarah Michelle Gellar Asks the Necessary Questions

“Am I going to get killed?”

Did both of you ask to be a serial killer that will get found out alongside the way in which?

GELLAR: Certain. Everyone asks that, proper?

DEMPSEY: The primary conversations you will have, you sit down, and also you’re like, “The place are we going? What sort of character is that this?”

DEMPSEY: Additionally, you understand what the distinction is, too? I really feel like whenever you’re youthful within the enterprise, you are like, “Am I going to get killed?” Proper? Then whenever you’re us, you are like, “Am going to get killed?” [Laughs] That’s the distinction.

One of many issues about Dexter is every season is a large villain. What was your response whenever you heard about this season as a result of it is each villain of the week and large villain?

GELLAR: That was the identical as the unique present, as a result of the unique present had different folks all through that he turned concerned with. There was additionally type of the larger image. I do not assume we differ that a lot. It would take slightly longer to get to that time, however I actually do not assume it differs that a lot.

DEMPSEY: I like how he is studying as he goes on. It’s type of how he is studying learn how to take care of that shadow facet of his nature, after which he is getting the assist from his father, which is actually fairly fascinating.

How Does ‘Dexter’ Evaluate to ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ or ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’?

You each have labored on various TV reveals, and I am curious, what would shock followers to be taught in regards to the making of Dexter as in comparison with different belongings you’ve labored on?

DEMPSEY: How straightforward and enjoyable it was with the solid instantly. It is simply actually relaxed. We had been popping out of, definitely, COVID, the strike, not quite a lot of reveals had been working. We had been all very lucky to be working and to be in a bunch of individuals, and with a tradition that’s being led by Clyde and the remainder of the group. That was simply a lot enjoyable. That was the factor all of us had been very shocked by.

GELLAR: I joked with Clyde — what is the app the place folks meet pals? Bumble. Clyde might run a kind of as a result of this group that he put collectively, from day one, there’s a lot respect. However greater than that, we had been all so appropriate. Everybody loved one another’s firm, which you don’t all the time get.

DEMPSEY: And we wish to make it possible for followers of the present had been going to love this, as effectively. So, there was quite a lot of that accountability and enthusiasm and dedication behind it.

The primary season is 10 episodes. Which is your favourite and why?

DEMPSEY: I have never seen something but, so I do not know. I have never seen it but. We did not have quite a lot of playback both, so we did not see scenes, so I’ve no thought the way it turned out. I do know the times that I loved working and scenes that I preferred doing, however I have never seen it but. I am anxious to see it.

I do not assume you are going to be dissatisfied.

DEMPSEY: I hope not! Have you ever seen it but?

GELLAR: No, not every part. I’ve been touring.

Is there one that you’re excited for?

GELLAR: You already know, like I all the time say, it is like kids. You by no means wish to choose your favourite, and you do not wish to put that into somebody’s head as a result of you don’t need somebody both ready for that episode after which being in the end dissatisfied or having expectations. So, I say you may be more than happy with the entire season.

DEMPSEY: I like how every episode has its personal starting, center and an finish, nevertheless it additionally leads you to the subsequent episode in a enjoyable manner.

Dexter: Unique Sin is now streaming on Paramount+.

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