'Dexter: Resurrection' Cast on How Their Work Belongs to the Audience After Filming | SDCC 2025 - video Dailymotion

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The cast of 'Dexter: Resurrection' stop by THR's suite at San Diego Comic-Con and dish on exploring the show and how that has affected their own inner monologue. Plus, they talk about how they work hard to give their all to the character but after it's done, their work belongs to the audience.

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00:00I think all of us feel a sense of guardianship

00:02over our character's truth.

00:04You know, that's our job.

00:06But then when it's done, it doesn't belong to us anymore.

00:08You give it away.

00:10It's a liberating moment.

00:19Dexter, it means so much to me.

00:21I'd love to know, what was your I'm an adult show?

00:24The first show that you connected with and realized, like,

00:26oh, wait, I get these sensibilities now.

00:29Mine was, that's going to age me, Beretta.

00:33Beautiful.

00:34Jack.

00:35I'm going to say Lost.

00:36Beautiful.

00:37I wasn't a grown-up when I watched it,

00:39but it made me feel grown-up things.

00:41The Incredible Hulk, I think.

00:43Yes, I love that.

00:44A walkabout.

00:46The Outer Limits.

00:49Powerful choices.

00:50David.

00:50I was, like, a little kid watching 30-something,

00:56and I had no idea about what it felt like to be in your 30s

01:00because I was probably 8 or 9,

01:02but I would just watch it

01:03and watch these adults having, like, conversations about stuff

01:07that was, I couldn't grasp, but it was fascinating to me.

01:10So I guess I started to feel like a grown-up then.

01:12I love that.

01:13My first show that I loved was My So-Called Life,

01:18which is the same creators, right?

01:20As, yeah, My So-Called Life was my favorite show.

01:22I love that connection.

01:23That's beautiful.

01:24Now, this show has a dark passenger concept

01:26that has evolved through its incarnations

01:29and through its experiences,

01:30and I feel like there's an inner monologue

01:31we all carry and all experience,

01:33and I wonder if discovering and exploring the show,

01:35especially those who have been to it so long,

01:37has that changed your own inner voice,

01:39your own inner monologue,

01:40and your own experience of a dark passenger.

01:42I've had one since I was a little kid,

01:44and I have gotten to this place in my grown-up life

01:47where I find having conversations with him

01:50is much better than trying to ignore him.

01:53So I try to, like, kind of the way that, you know,

01:57you've got Harry talking to Dexter.

02:01I feel like the parent that I kind of wished

02:04I could have had talking to me as a kid,

02:06I talk to myself inside that way sometimes

02:08when I feel like the dark passenger's starting to take over,

02:11and I help him relax and calm down

02:13and know that it's all going to be okay.

02:15Yeah, I think, you know, personifying your,

02:19whatever you want to call it, dark passenger in this case

02:22is potentially a healthy thing to do

02:25as opposed to being suffused with it, you know.

02:28Sit at the head of the table,

02:30let him have a seat, let him have his say,

02:33but remain at the head.

02:34That's the idea, I guess, free therapy.

02:37Yeah, it does feel therapeutic.

02:39Well, when you're as old as me,

02:41they seem to be much more integrated

02:45and less oppositional than when I was much younger.

02:50I've assimilated it to become more of my whole being.

02:55Wow, that's an odd question for me

02:57because when I was younger,

02:59that thought was choosing the safe choice.

03:03And as I've gotten older,

03:06is, well, what's the safe choice?

03:08I'm going to do the opposite.

03:10Yeah.

03:11And I've just developed that as I got older.

03:14I guess I have to go.

03:14I'm still figuring out what to do with my little rascal.

03:21I like that you named him as well.

03:22I love that.

03:24I think, you know, when I was younger,

03:26run from it.

03:28And now as I'm older, embracing it more.

03:30And I love what Michael said

03:32and I love what David said.

03:34David actually gave me that exact advice earlier today as well.

03:37So, yeah.

03:38Beautiful.

03:39A little bit of both.

03:39There's a protectiveness also of these characters

03:41that have become so iconic.

03:42And I love that we're getting a prequel,

03:44very comic book-like

03:45and also continuing the story on.

03:46Is there a protectiveness of these characters

03:48or is it beautiful as artists

03:50that have developed these characters

03:51and being artists that get to let it go

03:53and have the freedom to watch other people have that take?

03:56I mean, I think while you're making it,

03:57it belongs to you and as much as it ever does.

04:00And, you know, I think all of us feel

04:02a sense of guardianship over our character's truth.

04:05You know, that's our job.

04:07But then when it's done,

04:08it doesn't belong to us anymore.

04:09You give it away.

04:10It's a liberating moment.

04:14And inversely, I'm sure you've been asked a lot

04:15about joining this cast

04:16that's already like a well-formed family.

04:18But I've been wondering,

04:19when you were a fan of the show,

04:21watching it before you joined the cast,

04:22had you already had machinations of how you get killed?

04:25No, I never even crossed my mind.

04:27But I may be in the face.

04:29I feel like that question implies that my character dies.

04:32Fair.

04:33I like that.

04:33I think the better question would be,

04:35have I had, you know, fantasies and machinations

04:39in my mind plotting the way that my character

04:41gets to kill people on the show?

04:44No spoilers, though.

04:47Jack?

04:47I agree with what Michael said.

04:50I mean, it's,

04:51this wasn't a show that I watched.

04:52I wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid.

04:54Yeah.

04:55And I sort of became aware of the universe

04:59and the family that I was joining as I joined it.

05:02And then, and then afterward,

05:04because that was when I went and watched.

05:07Yeah.

05:07And in terms of the guardianship of the character,

05:10I think that that feels very real,

05:12like when you're in it,

05:13because it's,

05:14you're giving yourself to that character

05:16and to that story.

05:17And it is kind of absorbs everything

05:19that you're doing.

05:20And then, yeah, after you're done,

05:22it's, it belongs to the audience.

05:24I love that.

05:24And I love what this world has become.

05:26And I love what you guys have built.

05:27And I really appreciate it continuing on in this way.

05:29And it's really beautiful show.

05:30And thank you.

05:31Oh, thank you.

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