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"Now that we&amp;#039;ve got a brand spanking new trailer and a premiere date for Dexter (October 2!), here at Digital Spy we&amp;#039;re all getting just a bit excited about the sixth season! A whole host of stars have signed up to join the show in the new episodes, and among them is the lovely Brea Grant (who you might just recognise from Heroes). To keep us going while we wait for Dexter to return, we gave Brea a ring to find out about her character Ryan, Ryan&amp;#039;s very interesting relationship with Masuka, and why she&amp;#039;s excited about playing a &amp;quot;hot girl&amp;quot; for once... Are you excited about joining Dexter? &amp;quot;Yeah! I&amp;#039;m always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as Dexter, for sure.&amp;quot; Were you a fan of the show before you got a role? &amp;quot;Yeah, I had watched the first couple of seasons and then played catch up for the last few. Once I booked the role I was spending hours in front of my television trying to catch up on the show, but yeah, I thought it was an amazing show. I watched it all first season and loved it.&amp;quot; Can you tell us about your character Ryan? &amp;quot;I am an intern in Masuka&amp;#039;s lab, so I&amp;#039;m sort of a lab tech but in training. You know, it&amp;#039;s a weird show because I never know how much I should reveal, because I don&amp;#039;t want to give away anything and get in trouble! But yeah... I&amp;#039;m basically Masuka&amp;#039;s match in a lot of ways.&amp;quot; Could there be a hint of romance between Masuka and Ryan? &amp;quot;There is that possibility, yeah!&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;ll be nice for Masuka. &amp;quot;Yeah! It&amp;#039;s nice to have him get a storyline. I think a lot of times the lab characters sort of get pushed to the side, so it&amp;#039;s nice to see him get to do some real acting stuff.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s the relationship between Ryan and Dexter like? &amp;quot;You know, I think she is not very interested in him. Ryan is more interested in people who can help her out, and Dexter is yet to be able to help her out in any way!&amp;quot; So she doesn&amp;#039;t suspect him at all? &amp;quot;No, no. Not so far!&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s it been like working with Michael C Hall and the rest of the cast? &amp;quot;Oh, they&amp;#039;re fantastic. There&amp;#039;s something really amazing about watching an actor like Michael C Hall or Jennifer Carpenter, who are completely professional and do everything so brilliantly, but yet can have a really great time on set. I&amp;#039;ve been really blessed with being on sets that are just all these brilliant actors who are excited to be there and happy to be there. You know, on Heroes I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don&amp;#039;t know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.&amp;quot; What attracted you to the Dexter job - was it the show or the character? &amp;quot;You know, a little of both. It&amp;#039;s a sexier role for me. I don&amp;#039;t generally get the opportunity to play a role in which the girl is super sexy. I don&amp;#039;t play the hot girl a lot of times! So it was really exciting for me to be able to play the hot girl - and weird at the same time. But then the show itself as well. The show has such a mad following. I mean, we film on location and people find out and show up with their DVDs and their T-shirts and they wait around for Michael C Hall to sign them. It&amp;#039;s kind of insane. I mean, Heroes had a similar kind of following but there&amp;#039;s not many shows that just get this kind of attention in the sixth season.&amp;quot; Is it intimidating joining a series with such a big fanbase? &amp;quot;Yeah! I mean, you don&amp;#039;t want to screw it up, for sure! That was always my fear on Heroes as well - I never want to come in and just make a mess of everything and have everybody hate me. But I guess actors have big enough egos that we can think we belong there somehow! It&amp;#039;s definitely really intimidating, but the fans have been amazing, just on Twitter and having people reach out like that has been amazing. Just to have people say, &amp;#039;Congratulations, I&amp;#039;m a fan of the show&amp;#039; and they&amp;#039;re excited to see me on there, that kind of thing has been really nice.&amp;quot; OK, so give us one little tease to get us excited about Ryan. &amp;quot;I will say that her sexual appetite matches Masuka&amp;#039;s. Is that a good tease?&amp;quot; Definitely! Do you think Ryan gets a lot of funny bits on the show? &amp;quot;Yeah, it&amp;#039;s funny. I think it will make people laugh. My character&amp;#039;s definitely there to make people laugh.&amp;quot; Dexter returns for its sixth season on October 2 on Showtime. Watch the trailer for the sixth season of Dexter below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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