Carpenter: “Just because the marriage ended doesn’t mean the love isn’t still there.”
Dexter costars Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C. Hall may have ended their marriage, but according to the actress she still has nothing but love towards her ex-husband.
She admits that the vibe on set has changed since the split late last year, but she still considers him a great friend.
“I mean, he is and always will be one of my best friends in the world,” she told E! Online. “And just because the marriage ended doesn’t mean the love isn’t still there. We take very good care of each other and our cast, we always have, and I’m just really lucky.”
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A new project for Jennifer!
The Good Wife is taking a page out of Dexter.
Jennifer Carpenter has booked a guest spot on the CBS legal drama, The Hollywood Reporter confirms, for an episode scheduled to air by the end of the calendar year.
Details are scarce on who Carpenter will be playing, who is best known for playing Dexter’s profanity-loving sister Deb Morgan on the Showtime series. Dexter and The Good Wife air in the same time slot — Sundays at 9 p.m. — which would make for an interesting head-to-head matchup should the episodes air on the same night. (Both series belong under the same parent company.)
Since it launched, The Good Wife has racked up a rich slate of guest stars, including former House regular Lisa Edelstein, Denis O’Hare, Ana Gasteyer and Martha Plimpton, just to name a few.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter: ‘It’s Harder and Harder to Justify’ Deb Not Realizing Her Brother Is a Killer
As Dexter‘s Debra Morgan, Jennifer Carpenter has a way with foul words and overlooking the obvious: her brother’s Dark Passenger. When we left her last week, she had just been promoted to lieutenant over the more seasoned Batista (the squeaky fucker gets the grease), leaving us to consider: Does her ascension to the top mean she’s that much closer to finding Dexter out? Or are we just that much closer to our televisions next time we yell, “Ask him why he’s always the first person to arrive at a crime scene!” (Please, God, don’t let Dexter get caught.) We spoke with the Kentucky-born actress about her character’s blind spots, why they drive her crazy, too, and the dirty Debism she’s saving for next season.
Congratulations on the show’s best season-premiere ratings yet.
Oh, wow, thanks. I don’t really pay attention to that, but I’m glad it’s doing well. I sort of enjoy the fact that we’re in a bubble when we’re shooting it. I feel like if I were imagining people really watching it, or the pressure of numbers, that maybe I wouldn’t work as well [laughs].
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New interview with Jennifer by The Hollywood Reporter!
Sunday’s Dexter saw Jennifer Carpenter’s Debra Morgan step out from her brother – and father’s – shadow when she was promoted to lieutenant of Miami Metro, a position higher than anything her father, Harry, had achieved in his career.
While the promotion may have been out of spite – Matthews (Geoff Pierson) promotes Deb instead of Batista (David Zayas) to get back at LaGuerta (Lauren Velez) – it serves as a culmination for the character who first started as a gangly Vice cop still learning the ropes in Season 1.
As things are looking up for Deb’s career, Carpenter says Deb’s response to Sunday’s other proposal is an example of how much her character has grown and learned how to finally start making “healthy decisions.”
The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Carpenter to discuss Deb’s evolution, Quinn (Desmond Harrington) and how her “f-bomb” ways will change now that she’s a lieutenant (hint, they won’t!).
The Hollywood Reporter: How has your approach to playing Deb changed since the early days of Season 1 when she was a rough-around-the-edges Vice cop?
Jennifer Carpenter: The first year was absolutely an education in how to work in television and I appreciate the learning curve the audience gave me. I feel like I’ve been able to mature as an actress alongside of Deb. I feel like every year she makes huge leaps – not as a cop but how she’s evolved as a woman. This year she’s fine-tuned her tools a bit; she’s a little better about masking her feelings so that she can charge through the work and also be a little more creative about how she tries to penetrate Dexter’s walls.