A great read and it takes up Jennifer’s upcoming projects!

Jennifer Carpenter is happy: She’s finally been given permission to cry.

The actress, currently starring opposite Pablo Schreiber in the off-Broadway dark romantic play “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” had to stifle her tears on stage while rehearsing the role of Kayleen, a young woman suppressing her inner turmoil.

“There was one rule: It’s that Kayleen doesn’t cry. That’s a lot to swallow all the time. It was actually unhealthy for a while, I think. During one rehearsal, I did cry and I felt so much better. I said, ‘I may need to leave a little on the stage.’”

Director Scott Ellis eventually relented, finally allowing Carpenter to release her pain — but only at the very end of each performance. “I think the journey that she goes through, she looks forward to that moment,” Ellis says.

Carpenter, 31, is flexing her tear ducts and theater muscles for the first time since she made a name for herself on Showtime’s serial killer series “Dexter” and in films such as “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and “White Chicks.”

“This has been a historic moment in my life. This whole period of my life is going to change the course of everything in a really positive way,” she says during an interview in her dressing room. “I’m at a point in my life where I’m looking to be surprised. I’m looking to do things that I hadn’t expected to do.”
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New articles are being published with Jennifer and it’s nice to read several new interviews with her! She also posed for a wonderful new portrait in New York on February 14. Thanks to Nadia for sending me the photos!! <3

GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: 2011 Trump SoHo Hotel Portrait

Jennifer Carpenter says she thinks the sixth series of Dexter will surprise viewers.

The actress, who plays alongside her ex-husband Michael C Hall in the Showtime drama, said she thinks there’s one or two seasons still to go.

She said: “I’m really excited about this year. [The end of the last series] was just really open-ended, it could go anywhere. It has the same opportunity to surprise people and I think it will.”

Jennifer wouldn’t say what she thought might happen when reunited on set with Michael, who plays her character’s murderous brother, after the two separated last August.

But she’s keeping herself busy with work, and has three films in the pipeline: The Factory alongside John Cusack; Hungry Rabbit Jumps with Nicolas Cage, Guy Pearce and January Jones, and Ex-Girlfriends, an Alexander Poe comedy – which is something that’s been missing from her CV of late.
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DreadCentral posted some stills from Jennifer’s upcoming film The Factory – I will try to find them in HQ!

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- The Factory: Production Stills

Its release date is still up in the air, but some new stills from The Factory starring John Cusack and Jennifer Carpenter have shown up online, and we have them for you here.

IM Global is home to the goods from director Morgan O’Neill’s The Factory, which he co-wrote with Paul Leyden. Along with Cusack and Carpenter, the film’s co-stars are Mae Whitman (“Parenthood“, “In Treatment“), Sonya Walger (“FlashForward“, “Lost“), Michael Trevino (“The Vampire Diaries“), and Cindy Sampson (“Supernatural“).

The synopsis follows:
“Rugged and obsessive detective Mike Fletcher and his partner, Kelsey Walker, are on the trail of a serial killer who prowls the streets targeting young streetwalkers. When Fletcher’s teenage daughter disappears, he discovers the killer has kidnapped her after mistaking her for a hooker. His obsession goes into overdrive when he drops all professional restraint to get to the killer and save his child.”

Exciting with some news on Jennifers upcoming movie The Factory, it will be her biggest part in a film so far I think. Just hope it will open up more doors for her career wise!

Dark Castle’s The Factory is another cop-pursuing-a-serial-killer film from actor-turned-director Morgan O’Neill. The movie – which stars 1408′s John Cusack and Dexter‘s Jennifer Carpenter – is set up to be released by Warner Bros, but was pulled from its original January 2011 release date.

Shock Till You Drop posted the first image from the film yesterday, while Fangoria has a few exclusive quotes from The Factory‘s veteran genre producer Don Carmody (Skinwalkers, Gothika, Orphan, Resident Evil: Afterlife, etc.), who supervised the film’s shoot in Vancouver and Montreal back in 2009. “It’s about a cop played by John Cusack who’s been tracking a serial killer unsuccessfully for a number of years,” Carmody tells us. “The serial killer appears to have been dormant for awhile, and they’re basically trying to get him to shut down his investigation, the powers that be, and then his daughter goes missing with the same kind of MO. So he kind of has to go around the system to track down what’s been going on.” Carpenter plays Cusack’s partner Kelsey Walker in the film.
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