February 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Set in 1991 Miami, DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN follows Dexter Morgan as he transitions from student to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness. With the guidance of his father, Harry, he adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people who deserve to be eliminated from society without getting on law enforcements' radar. This is a particular challenge for young Dexter as he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, sir. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm good er, How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Absolutely fantastic. I gotta tell you, this is a Beatles
moment for me because Dexter has been a part of
my family since day one. I mean, it's always been
that show that we always go to because it's iconic.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yes it is. It's very very iconic.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
What is it like for you to be on that
set because now you're wrapped up in that show's history.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Oh my god, that's amazing to be a part of that,
and especially the original sin. I was just so excited,
so over the moon about it and so pumped about it,
and you know, and the writing was amazing, is amazing,
and I was just really really just excited getting this
and I just at first I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was like, Oh, are they sure they want me
the character?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
But I was just really pumped and excited, and I
just wanted to do the best that I can possibly
do to do write by this character.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, your dedication and loyalty to acting in that screen
and it's because.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Of what you do out here in the real world.
Thank you so much for that.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You know, I don't know I can't speak for other actors,
but I always kind of doubt my acting ability at times,
and to hear that, you know, thank you so much,
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, it's just it's.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
A tough it's it's quite a bit of a different
character than I've ever played before. So that's why I
was like, Okay, can I do this? Can I be menacing?
Because I'm not like that in real life? And I'm like, ore,
people gonna take me seriously when they see you know,
I guess goofy and nice I can be, but and
then to be menacing. So but then I realized, oh,
the majority people don't know who I am, so they
don't know how I really am, So that's gonna be
(01:37):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
See.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I like things like that because that means that you're
stepping into that camera and you're doing something you've never
done before. And to me, that that is the rawness
of why acting is so important exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's you know, it's you step into.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
A character and you become that character and you get
into the mind space of that that character, and and
to me, that's fun, that's exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You get to play, you get to do a bunch
of different.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Things, and even though on this set right now, I
didn't have a whole lot of you know, space space
to play because you know, the timing and just doing
everything right, I still had a lot of fun doing it.
I was very nervous, I was I was like a
trembling inside, but I still had so much fun. And
I'm just so happy and excited that I was able
(02:22):
to play a character like this, because I don't know
if I was you know, I don't know how many
times I would be giving a chance to do a
character like this, And it was just really exciting and
it's great to get me to the next level of Don't.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You think that your connection to viewers though, is because
you put yourself in the community such as bartending, Because
I believe that when you see these people every day
or you're doing something with them every day, when you
step into that into that role, you you have to
visualize that they are there watching you.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yes, one they're they're they're watching me and and and
that's part of the pressure because they're watching everything.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Is you know, and.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Therey gonna be so much a professional wrestling as well
as Major League Baseball in the way that every generation
has a story about their experiences with Dexter, and it's
one of those things that we can never pinpoint why
we support him, but at the same time we love
everything that's going on.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, you know what supporting him like, I feel it's
because he gets the bad guy. Yeah, you know, like
you know, like because that these guys that Dexter goes
after and kills, they're really bad people, whether it's you know,
a child predator or just a serial killer themselves, or
they just kill the woman or whatever. And he goes
after those people, and you you always want to see
(03:39):
in a weird way, I guess you want to see
bad people get hurt, get what they deserve. And you know,
some of these bad people, you know, they either get
off easy or they do twenty years when they killed somebody.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But Dexter make sure that that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
He goes after them and he kills them, and he
gives them what they deserve.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
One of the biggest questions on Google. I don't know
if you've ever googled yourself, but Carlos, they want to know.
They want to know if you're married, not.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Married, to have a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I try not to.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It's hard to watch myself and then already unless there's
something there I don't know about myself that I maybe
don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But I've never really googled.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Myself, and I don't know if I ever will.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, it's it's fun to go in there and learn
about people, but then you have to sit there and
you have to worry about Okay, this is on the internet,
but is it clickbait? I mean you as an actor,
I mean you you've got it or your publicist has
always got to, you know, check things out, make sure
everything is on the yep and up.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, you know, Luckily, I don't get too much chatter
about myself yet. I guess, you know, this is probably
the most chatter I've had in a long time or ever.
But yeah, I'm guessing they'd have to, you know, check
what's going on, what are they're saying about me, and
stuff like that. I do tend to to say sometimes
the wrong thing because I have a strong opinion about
(04:54):
a lot of things, so I have to be very
careful for what I say. But yeah, luckily, to this point,
there hasn't been a lot of chatter or things being
said about me that wouldn't be truly.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well it's going to heat up when you start in
a movie with Tom Cruise or you've got Martin Scorsese
behind that camera.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh you know what, from your mouth to God's ears perfect.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I mean, your vision is on much higher things, isn't it.
I mean I could even see you hosting your own
TV show because you've got that that that energy about
you and the love of the people behind you.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Wow erl, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I mean that's the goal, is to get to the
next level and to work with amazing directors and amazing
actors and really make a you know, a big mark
in Hollywood, you know, to show the people that I'm
here and that I'm here to stay, that I can
be an amazing actor and just you know, make a
really good living and life out of it and.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Have fun and enjoy acting. That's what I really want.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Is it easy to say yes to gaining access to
that role? Because sometimes, you know, our Google calendars are
so full it's like, ah, okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, no, I I you know, stuff coming out because again,
you know, even I've been acting for about sixteen seventeen years,
it's it's you know, you got your moments where you
book and.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Then thing happens.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
When I got the audition, I did it, and then
when I booked it, I was like amazing. You know,
I had nothing else going on at the moment, and
I just I was like, all right, this is going
to take up a lot of my schedule, but I
want to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
This is going to be great, and I was just
looking forward to it.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And I'm very blessed to have gotten this role because
this is something that most people have never seen me
do before.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So I was really excited.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
About Dexter is such an emotional show. How do you
deal with all that emotion? I mean, do you sit
down with a journal and write things out so it
doesn't become a ghost in your life?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, very good question.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I don't. This is might sound terrible, but I don't
really write things down.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I just keep it in my head because I could
feel one way this minute and the next minute.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Completely feel different.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Like when I get my and this is going to
sound terrible to any actor or coach, but like when
I get you know, my audition or my sides or
I don't like to write it down because anything can
change at the moment.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So I like to be free.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I like to be open, and because I feel when
you write it down you're you're.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Stuck with that, and then it's reading it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You can change your emotions and change the way you
feel in a matter of seconds or minutes, and you
can have your mind changing, you're gonna have a different idea.
So I like to be you know, fluid and open,
And so I don't I really try not to write
anything down.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, because when you go back to your writing, what
happens is it's today's interpretation of what you wrote ten
weeks ago, and that in itself is carrying that goes forward.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Exactly, and it can change.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
It can change in a matter of minutes, seconds, or
you know, even days. And and you know, again, I
work differently than everybody, and there's no right way, there's
no wrong way of the way you approach when it
comes to this kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So that that tells me right there that you're a
brilliant listener, because if you go on to the set
and somebody gives you a direction, you're you're you're listening
to what they're saying so you can bring it to
life exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And and I remember in the beginning, you know, when
I was very green.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I would go on set do something I already had
to be thought in my head of how I was
going to do it, and then either the director changed
or the other actor said, you know, made some adjustments,
and I had to quickly make a quick adjustment and
to the point where like, oh, okay, and you know,
you can always cut, try it again, and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
But I think it's.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Important to not be stuck in doing it in an
exactly certain way because anything can change.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
The line might not work.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know, they have to, you know, change the line.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They have to.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You know, it's not working.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
The director says, you know, we got to you know, cut,
try a different way.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But yeah, you have to be open to that.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Wow, dude, you got to come back to this show
anytime in the future. The door is always going to
be open for you.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thank you. I really appreciate it. You've been amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Will you be brilliant today? Okay, sir, we'll do you too.
Good morning, sir. How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm good er, How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
Absolutely fantastic. I gotta tell you, this is a Beatles
moment for me because Dexter has been a part of
my family since day one. I mean, it's always been
that show that we always go to because it's iconic.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yes it is. It's very very iconic.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
What is it like for you to be on that
set because now you're wrapped up in that show's history.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Oh my god, that's amazing to be a part of that,
and especially the original sin. I was just so excited,
so over the moon about it and so pumped about it,
and you know, and the writing was amazing, is amazing,
and I was just really really just excited getting this
and I just at first I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was like, Oh, are they sure they want me
the character?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
But I was just really pumped and excited, and I
just wanted to do the best that I can possibly
do to do write by this character.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Well, your dedication and loyalty to acting in that screen
and it's because.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Of what you do out here in the real world.
Thank you so much for that.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You know, I don't know I can't speak for other actors,
but I always kind of doubt my acting ability at times,
and to hear that, you know, thank you so much,
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, it's just it's.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
A tough it's it's quite a bit of a different
character than I've ever played before. So that's why I
was like, Okay, can I do this? Can I be menacing?
Because I'm not like that in real life? And I'm like, ore,
people gonna take me seriously when they see you know,
I guess goofy and nice I can be, but and
then to be menacing. So but then I realized, oh,
the majority people don't know who I am, so they
don't know how I really am, So that's gonna be
(01:37):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
See.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I like things like that because that means that you're
stepping into that camera and you're doing something you've never
done before. And to me, that that is the rawness
of why acting is so important exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's you know, it's you step into.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
A character and you become that character and you get
into the mind space of that that character, and and
to me, that's fun, that's exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You get to play, you get to do a bunch
of different.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Things, and even though on this set right now, I
didn't have a whole lot of you know, space space
to play because you know, the timing and just doing
everything right, I still had a lot of fun doing it.
I was very nervous, I was I was like a
trembling inside, but I still had so much fun. And
I'm just so happy and excited that I was able
(02:22):
to play a character like this, because I don't know
if I was you know, I don't know how many
times I would be giving a chance to do a
character like this, And it was just really exciting and
it's great to get me to the next level of Don't.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You think that your connection to viewers though, is because
you put yourself in the community such as bartending, Because
I believe that when you see these people every day
or you're doing something with them every day, when you
step into that into that role, you you have to
visualize that they are there watching you.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yes, one they're they're they're watching me and and and
that's part of the pressure because they're watching everything.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Is you know, and.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Therey gonna be so much a professional wrestling as well
as Major League Baseball in the way that every generation
has a story about their experiences with Dexter, and it's
one of those things that we can never pinpoint why
we support him, but at the same time we love
everything that's going on.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, you know what supporting him like, I feel it's
because he gets the bad guy. Yeah, you know, like
you know, like because that these guys that Dexter goes
after and kills, they're really bad people, whether it's you know,
a child predator or just a serial killer themselves, or
they just kill the woman or whatever. And he goes
after those people, and you you always want to see
(03:39):
in a weird way, I guess you want to see
bad people get hurt, get what they deserve. And you know,
some of these bad people, you know, they either get
off easy or they do twenty years when they killed somebody.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But Dexter make sure that that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
He goes after them and he kills them, and he
gives them what they deserve.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
One of the biggest questions on Google. I don't know
if you've ever googled yourself, but Carlos, they want to know.
They want to know if you're married, not.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Married, to have a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I try not to.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It's hard to watch myself and then already unless there's
something there I don't know about myself that I maybe
don't want to know.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But I've never really googled.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Myself, and I don't know if I ever will.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, it's it's fun to go in there and learn
about people, but then you have to sit there and
you have to worry about Okay, this is on the internet,
but is it clickbait? I mean you as an actor,
I mean you you've got it or your publicist has
always got to, you know, check things out, make sure
everything is on the yep and up.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, you know, Luckily, I don't get too much chatter
about myself yet. I guess, you know, this is probably
the most chatter I've had in a long time or ever.
But yeah, I'm guessing they'd have to, you know, check
what's going on, what are they're saying about me, and
stuff like that. I do tend to to say sometimes
the wrong thing because I have a strong opinion about
(04:54):
a lot of things, so I have to be very
careful for what I say. But yeah, luckily, to this point,
there hasn't been a lot of chatter or things being
said about me that wouldn't be truly.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well it's going to heat up when you start in
a movie with Tom Cruise or you've got Martin Scorsese
behind that camera.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh you know what, from your mouth to God's ears perfect.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I mean, your vision is on much higher things, isn't it.
I mean I could even see you hosting your own
TV show because you've got that that that energy about
you and the love of the people behind you.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Wow erl, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I mean that's the goal, is to get to the
next level and to work with amazing directors and amazing
actors and really make a you know, a big mark
in Hollywood, you know, to show the people that I'm
here and that I'm here to stay, that I can
be an amazing actor and just you know, make a
really good living and life out of it and.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Have fun and enjoy acting. That's what I really want.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Is it easy to say yes to gaining access to
that role? Because sometimes, you know, our Google calendars are
so full it's like, ah, okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, no, I I you know, stuff coming out because again,
you know, even I've been acting for about sixteen seventeen years,
it's it's you know, you got your moments where you
book and.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Then thing happens.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
When I got the audition, I did it, and then
when I booked it, I was like amazing. You know,
I had nothing else going on at the moment, and
I just I was like, all right, this is going
to take up a lot of my schedule, but I
want to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
This is going to be great, and I was just
looking forward to it.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
And I'm very blessed to have gotten this role because
this is something that most people have never seen me
do before.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So I was really excited.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
About Dexter is such an emotional show. How do you
deal with all that emotion? I mean, do you sit
down with a journal and write things out so it
doesn't become a ghost in your life?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, very good question.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I don't. This is might sound terrible, but I don't
really write things down.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I just keep it in my head because I could
feel one way this minute and the next minute.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Completely feel different.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Like when I get my and this is going to
sound terrible to any actor or coach, but like when
I get you know, my audition or my sides or
I don't like to write it down because anything can
change at the moment.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So I like to be free.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I like to be open, and because I feel when
you write it down you're you're.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Stuck with that, and then it's reading it.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You can change your emotions and change the way you
feel in a matter of seconds or minutes, and you
can have your mind changing, you're gonna have a different idea.
So I like to be you know, fluid and open,
And so I don't I really try not to write
anything down.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, because when you go back to your writing, what
happens is it's today's interpretation of what you wrote ten
weeks ago, and that in itself is carrying that goes forward.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Exactly, and it can change.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
It can change in a matter of minutes, seconds, or
you know, even days. And and you know, again, I
work differently than everybody, and there's no right way, there's
no wrong way of the way you approach when it
comes to this kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So that that tells me right there that you're a
brilliant listener, because if you go on to the set
and somebody gives you a direction, you're you're you're listening
to what they're saying so you can bring it to
life exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
And and I remember in the beginning, you know, when
I was very green.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I would go on set do something I already had
to be thought in my head of how I was
going to do it, and then either the director changed
or the other actor said, you know, made some adjustments,
and I had to quickly make a quick adjustment and
to the point where like, oh, okay, and you know,
you can always cut, try it again, and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
But I think it's.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Important to not be stuck in doing it in an
exactly certain way because anything can change.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
The line might not work.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know, they have to, you know, change the line.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
They have to.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You know, it's not working.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
The director says, you know, we got to you know, cut,
try a different way.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But yeah, you have to be open to that.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Wow, dude, you got to come back to this show
anytime in the future. The door is always going to
be open for you.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Thank you. I really appreciate it. You've been amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Will you be brilliant today? Okay, sir, we'll do you too.
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