Exclusive: Julie Benz talks DEXTER 4th Season Finale
by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub Posted:October 18th, 2009 at 9:35 am
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Last night I was on the red carpet at the 2009 Scream Awards. If you look at the front page of Collider, you’ll see how many interviews I’ve already posted. Anyway, another person I got to speak with was “Dexter’s” Julie Benz. If you watch “Dexter” on Showtime, you know she plays Dexter’s wife Rita.
So when I got to speak with her, I asked her how this current season has been going. She told me they just wrapped on the finale and when I pressed for some details, she gave me some minor spoilers. Since I don’t want to reveal anything to the people that want to stay spoiler free, only click the jump if you want to learn more about where this season of “Dexter” is going. She also talks about the five films she did during last year’s hiatus and says the plan is to start filming season five next May.
Since you hit the jump….when I asked her about the finale she called it “shocking” and said it changes the show “at its core“. But the big news about the season finale is unlike previous seasons which have neatly wrapped up major storylines, this season ends with a cliffhanger! What this means is…it’s going to be a long wait until season five. Here’s the full interview:
Julie Benz
- Says she just wrapped on this season of Dexter
- Says the finale is “shocking”. Also says it changes the show “at its core”. Also reveals unlike previous seasons, they have a cliffhanger this year.
- Says their normal shooting time is May – October and she expects that to continue next year for season five
- Talks about the 5 movies she did on last year’s hiatus like Boondock Saints 2 and a few TV movies
- Calls the first season her favorite of the first 3 seasons
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Congrats man.everyone were talking about how Dexter will kill Rita at the season`s end,but now after she confirmed that she`s coming back for next season,we know that it wont happen.nice trick man…
Congrats man.everyone were talking about how Dexter will kill Rita at the season`s end,but now after she confirmed that she`s coming back for next season,we know that it wont happen.nice trick man…
lol mate you dont have a clue she dies by getting killed by the trinnity killer ina bath tub of her own blood and its like a mirror of where dexter was found in the shipping contain… a pool of blood
wrong!
wrong!
If the producers are smart, they will stick to the formula that has made Dexter such a success: STARTING OUT THE SEASON WITH A HAPPY, FUN SETTING!! If RIta is really dead, you can expect to see Dexter's ratings plummet without even a question. He was on a character development path that would be completely annihilated by Rita's death. So, I have to guess that this is all BS, and Rita's death was a dream. They are just yacking it up as a hoax. THey wouldn't be stupid enough to stop doing the formula that had made Dexter so popular. If they did kill Rita, I for one will not watch more than one episode. All the nudity, and cheesy romances flew far enough away from the books as it is, any more cheesy off story flights like killing Rita will be the demise of a once great show.
Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b158524_will_de…
If the producers are smart, they will stick to the formula that has made Dexter such a success: STARTING OUT THE SEASON WITH A HAPPY, FUN SETTING!! If RIta is really dead, you can expect to see Dexter's ratings plummet without even a question. He was on a character development path that would be completely annihilated by Rita's death. So, I have to guess that this is all BS, and Rita's death was a dream. They are just yacking it up as a hoax. THey wouldn't be stupid enough to stop doing the formula that had made Dexter so popular. If they did kill Rita, I for one will not watch more than one episode. All the nudity, and cheesy romances flew far enough away from the books as it is, any more cheesy off story flights like killing Rita will be the demise of a once great show.
Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b158524_will_de…
what does hollywood call this??? jumping the whale, or something like that? If they dont show dexter awakening on his way to meet rita at the start of season 5…. then the show truly is lost. I dont see more than a fifth season max, if rita is truly dead. That had to be a dream, trinity didn't have time or knowledge of rita to kill her. It just didn't add up.