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John Lithgow's Killer Role

On this season of Dexter, Lithgow has played a terrifying, prolific serial murderer—and family man! Before Sunday’s finale, he talked to The Daily Beast about playing a monster.

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When he took the role of this season's bad guy on the Showtime series Dexter, two-time Oscar nominee John Lithgow accepted an interesting challenge: To be as frightening as possible.

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