9 Interesting Facts About Jennifer Carpenter

Interesting Facts (7)

#001
Carpenter figured Dexter might last 5 to 7 years, so she built Deb on her own traits, which she believes helped her both at the audition and in sustaining a single character over a long run.
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#002
Spending 14 hours a day playing a character with a foul mouth had a side effect for Carpenter: she began swearing constantly in her own life without realizing it.
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Carpenter's reasoning was that Deb swears so much because it is her strongest means of self-expression and she doesn't know how to communicate any other way.
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During the hiatus before Dexter's second season, Carpenter studied post-traumatic stress disorder and decided Deb was a perfect candidate for it, though she felt showing a character cry is less interesting than showing one try not to cry.
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#005
Ahead of scenes with Anton or Quinn in the third season, Carpenter would recall everything she had been through in the first two seasons and carry it with her.
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#006
Executive producer Sara Colleton told Carpenter that the series relies on Deb to anchor Dexter and keep his abnormal behavior from arousing suspicion in the other characters.
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#007
Carpenter said the hostility between Deb and LaGuerta spilled into the first season, when the two actresses did not get along at all, and in the second season they simply avoided each other.
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#008
She completed the 2010 New York City Marathon in 3:34, running it alongside Jonny Lee Miller, her former Dexter (2006) co-star and the lead of Elementary (2012).
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#009
Before her Dexter audition, Jennifer Carpenter read Jeff Lindsay's Dexter novels but couldn't see herself in them. She worked to make Deb as close to herself as possible, drawing on parts of her own personality that resembled the character.
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