The trailer for Jennifer’s upcoming film!

The Star interview with Jennifer!

When I sat down to talk with Jennifer Carpenter, I found myself feeling a fair bit of trepidation.

Not because she’s got a reputation for being difficult, far from it.

But the 31-year-old actress has become famous for playing Debra Morgan, the foul-mouthed sister of Michael C. Hall’s serial killer, Dexter, on the hit series (now in its sixth season, Sunday nights at 10 p.m. on The Movie Network) with such total believability, consistency and depth, that I wondered just what toxic cluster of f-bombs she might unleash on me.

For example, the most recently aired episode found her berating her ex-lover Quinn for having compromised a major case by sleeping with one of the witnesses.

“I could give a f—k who you f—k!” she railed. “Just don’t f—k with my investigation, you f—k!”

See what I mean?

With a sigh of relief I rapidly discovered Carpenter is not at all like the character she portrays, even though she admits, “the more time I spend on the series, there’s definitely been an exchange between Debra and me.”
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