Eric S. Anderson has literally cut his own throat for the sake of art.
If you're a fan of the critically acclaimed Showtime TV series "Dexter," you've seen it in the opening sequence. Listen to the interview
Anderson, a Wausau native and a 1983 graduate of Wausau West High School, was the creative director for that piece of work, and it garnered him and his team a 2007 Emmy.
"Dexter" is a show about a serial killer "who is kind of a good guy," said Anderson. He wanted the opening to exemplify the duality of Dexter -- the fact that he's a killer and also a "normal" person. Anderson used slow-motion close-ups to lend a savage and ominous feel to ordinary actions such as slapping a mosquito, cutting a piece of ham, cracking an egg and shaving.
"For 'Dexter,' it's all about being brutally real. It's all about realism," Anderson said.
So Anderson and his producer picked up razors, he said, "and we had them film us slitting our own throats. That was to the degree that we wanted to do a great job. It was like, we could use fake blood. Yeah, but it looks like fake blood. Let me actually cut myself. Fake blood, for the record, actually looks a lot more realistic. It takes a long time for blood to come out of a cut."
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