12. Nobody Knew When They Were Going To Be Killed Off
Shocking twists and character deaths were a hallmark of Dexter long before Game Of Thrones swanned into the hyper-violent cable TV game with its uncertain futures and bloody ends. Over the course of eight seasons everybody you thought was safe most of the main cast, essentially were slowly bumped off, in varyingly gruesome ways. Nobody was ever quite sure when there number would be up, however. Executive producer Sara Colleton explained that they never told the actors ahead of time when their character was about to be offed: You cant tell them at the beginning of the year, because its just too hard for them to spend a whole season knowing this. It would somehow affect their performance, she continued. That means that, for the most part, whenever somebody was about to be killed off they weren't informed until right around the time they were filming that particular episode. Which means all the shock and upset of those scenes is at least half-real.
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