Dexter Prequel Casts Younger Versions of Batista, LaGuerta and Masuka
The upcoming Dexter prequel series is about to show us the younger days of three familiar faces.
Paramount+ with Showtime has announced additional casting for Dexter: Original Sin, TVLine has learned, including younger versions of key Dexter characters Angel Batista, Maria LaGuerta and Vince Masuka.
James Martinez (Love, Victor) will play Batista, who is “an up-and-coming homicide detective who leads with his heart” in the prequel, with Christina Milian (Grandfathered) as LaGuerta, “Miami Metro’s first female homicide detective” and Alex Shimizu (The Blacklist) as Masuka, “a forensic analyst who eagerly shares his expertise while relishing the chance to boss around his new intern, Dexter Morgan.” Additionally, Reno Wilson (Good Girls) will play Bobby Watt, a longtime partner and friend to Dexter’s adoptive father Harry Morgan. (See the new actors below.)
They join a cast that already includes Patrick Gibson (Shadow and Bone, The OA) as a young Dexter Morgan, with Christian Slater (Mr. Robot) as Harry Morgan and Molly Brown (Billions) as Dexter’s sister Debra. The 10-episode Dexter: Original Sin is set in 1991 Miami, 15 years before the original series, as Dexter “transitions from student to avenging serial killer,” according to the official synopsis. Original series showrunner Clyde Phillips returns as showrunner and executive producer.
Batista was played on the original series by David Zayas, with LaGuerta played by Lauren Vélez and Masuka played by C.S. Lee. All three actors appeared in all eight seasons of Dexter, with the exception of Vélez, since LaGuerta was killed off in the Season 7 finale.
Do the new cast additions look the part, Dexter fans? Let us know what you think of the resemblance in a comment below.
Ah, so this younger Dexter will still have already been employed by the department then? For some reason I’d assumed the prequel would be set further back in his life than that.
They previously said he was beginning an internship I believe, so they’ll probably all be a lil fresh faced for the force
Already employed? He’ll be in intern.
Hopefully this is good but it’s now starting not to sound good. I assumed this show was going to be about teenager Dexter before he started working. Plus I just assumed these coworker characters were near in age to Dexter in the original series so they would also teenagers or just a little older in this period. I wanted to see a different side of Dexter before the police work but since they are stil leaning into the police work and these previous characters it just feels like they don’t think a teenager Dexter series will be able to stand on its own and they to better connect to the original. I would’ve much rather seen a Harris show with Dexter as his dark passenger.
I hope they never make another season of New Blood… that Harrison character/actor is the worst thing I’ve ever seen, and I was hoping Dexter would do everyone a favor and kill Harrison in the finale. Instead they killed off Dexter needlessly, and they also completely ruined Dexter’s character, by making him do things he’d never do, just to make Harrison look morally superior… when Harrison was a complete lowlife.
So its great to see they’ve scrapped Season 2 of New Blood, and are focusing on the Dexter prequel. And Dexter being in intern at Miami Metro is the best idea, because seeing younger versions of each character at Miami Metro will be fascinating. Whereas if they made Dexter a teenager it would be too much like New Blood, and just another teen drama.
Christina Milian is 42. Lauren Vélez is 59. Millian is slightly older than Vélez was when the original series started. Yet this is supposed to take place 15 years before the original series?
Those are the ages of actors, not characters. So not really relevant.
I think the biggest issue is when have have 28 year old actors playing teenagers.
Literally no one asked for this. Let the franchise die. They tried to redeem it with New Blood but it had its own set of problems.
“Literally no one asked for this”
No one has to ask for any given thing to be made in order to potentially end up enjoying it if it is. As always…time will tell if it ends up being liked by enough people.
Have no interest in exploring these characters lives any longer– would not watch even if I had Paramount+. Enough’s enough.
Then why post? Watch HBO.
My God, people are all ready criticizing the show befire it’s even made. “I want this and it should be like that!”
Make your own show, or just wait and watch.