New interview with Watchmen cast.  I just pulled out the JDM parts.

Going further into shades of gray is The Comedian. A popular vigilante, his private life was not so heroic. He attempted to rape another crime fighter, Sally Jupiter, and shot to death a pregnant woman who claimed to bare his child. Best known for his role as Izzy’s hunky patient Denny on "Grey’s Anatomy," Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays The Comedian.

"I may lose some of my hardcore fans here which is kind of the reason that I wanted to do it," said Morgan. "I’m known for being the nice guy and the opportunity to play a f*cking devil reincarnated, a soulless bastard as The Comedian really, that opportunity was something that I would’ve never passed up. Look, if I lose some fans I’ll probably make some other ones."

If the movie works as well as the comic, the amazing thing will be that people still sympathize with The Comedian in the end. "Getting into the heads of these characters was kind of an ordeal. The actions of The Comedian are brutal sometimes. This is something that’s a little different than I’ve ever done. I had hard times with it too. There are a couple of things that The Comedian does that I never ever in a million years would’ve thought it was something that I would even think twice about as an actor, but I could make no excuses for it. So it was a couple of rough days of filming where I was just like, ‘This is tough.’ Now, the actions of The Comedian, the arc that this character goes through is a substantial arc. His very being is questioned and he questions himself which for me is what attracted me so much to The Comedian. At first glance it’s like, ‘Oh, you’re playing this bastard, just a mean son of a bitch.’ But the more I looked into this character, there layers to this guy. How do you read a book about a guy that does the things he does and yet you sympathize with him? How the hell does that happen? I found that fascinating."

If any of the die hard comic book fans doubt Morgan’s full commitment to The Comedian, he assures you that he constantly returns to the source material. "I’ve read this thing 25 times and every time I read it I discover something new. There’s something else in there. I’ll probably read it another 25 times before this movie comes out. You guys are smart. Everyone that’s interviewed us has read this thing and they know it inside and out and it’s intimidating. The fan base for ‘Watchmen’ is an intimidating group of people who are very knowledgeable. We’ve got to know our stuff. We needed to know it then and we have to continue to know it. That’s the funniest thing. I was rereading the book last night because I was like, ‘I have to revisit this thing right now.’"