Patrick Dempsey and Christian Slater are having a Mobsters reunion, over three a long time within the making.
Each actors seem within the Dexter prequel sequence, Dexter: Authentic Sin — however the final time they shared the display was in 1991, as younger mobsters taking up New York Metropolis within the Twenties.
“I had labored with Dempsey 30 years in the past on Mobsters and it was a humorous gangster film,” recounts Slater throughout a latest interview with PEOPLE.
Within the movie, Slater, now 55, performed Charlie “Fortunate” Luciano, a real-life gangster that was a part of the creation of the Nationwide Crime Syndicate. Dempsey, now 58, was Meyer Lansky, one other organized crime figurehead.
Mobsters loosely adopted the creation of what is generally known as “the Fee,” the American Mafia’s governing physique. The movie was largely panned at its launch.
“It’s a zinger,” Slater says of the movie. “It is actually one thing. We acquired our Tommy weapons and it is a fairly humorous film.”
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No matter his emotions about Mobsters, Slater tells PEOPLE, “It was great to reconnect with [Dempsey]. It was actually, actually nice. Actually nice.”
Dexter: Authentic Sin explores how the notorious serial killer originated by Michael C. Corridor got here to be the person viewers met within the 2006 sequence. Within the new present, Dempsey performs Miami Metro Murder Captain Aaron Spencer and Slater is Dexter’s father, Harry.
Throughout an October interview with PEOPLE, Dempsey instructed PEOPLE of the sequence: “I’ve had a good time engaged on it.”
“The tradition throughout the filming itself has been considered one of nice celebration, pleasure and enjoyable,” he praised, particularly, noting that as a result of it is an “ensemble” forged, “all of us have our days the place we’re carrying the workload, after which we have now a while off to stability our life.”
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Added Dempsey: “It is a great, actually protected, artistic setting, and Clyde Phillips, our creator, has created a ravishing tradition for us to work in that is actually collaborative.”
