Here’s another video interview with Jeffrey Dean Morgan. I guess he knows his Watchmen fans!
And another print interview. Spoilers here too. And I think Watchmen fangirls are more fun than Grey’s Anatomy fangirls!
Grey’s Anatomy fans loved Denny so much, he keeps coming back as a ghost to haunt Izzy (Katherine Heigl). Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan has moved on though, as that arc on the hit medical drama launched him into a major movie career. He warns his Denny groupies about his latest film, .
"Oh, I think they’re in for a shock," Morgan joked. "I may lose a couple of Grey’s Anatomy fans, but I’ll gain some Watchmen fans, so it’s an even trade."
In Watchmen, Morgan plays The Comedian, a costumed superhero who doesn’t always uphold law and order. At one point he beats up fellow superhero Sally Jupiter (Carla Gugino) and would sexually assault her if no one intervened. Later he executes a Vietnamese woman who is carrying his baby.
"I think he’s got deep seeded issues with everyone," Morgan said. "He just seemed to connect more with women. It’s kind of who he is unfortunately."
Don’t worry, ladies. It’s only acting. "How’d I feel as Jeff? Look, I don’t go around beating women, so it’s a little bit different for me, but there were a couple moments in that were hard for me to do as an actor, just because it’s just kind of so vicious. It’s not like you’re pushing somebody against the wall not that that’s right either, but I mean just a smack down and I give her a beat down. There’s just nothing nice about it. We weren’t obviously holding back anything."
This was all part of the original graphic novel, but it just looks more brutal on film. "Again, you’re looking at a graphic novel, a comic book, where you’re looking at like four panels of that sequence. So to fill in those blanks, and you’re filling in those blanks with what would be the reality of it and it’s vicious, there’s just no other way about it. We took no prisoners in anything in this movie, I think we did it as real as we possibly could."
