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Some real life drama occured on the set of the buzzworthy TV show DEXTER when TV Stuntman Jeff Chase was accidently stabbed, for real, by co-star Jimmy Smits (NYPD BLUE) while filming a fight scene.
Chase says, "For the scene, I was bound in Saran Wrap, duct tape over my mouth. I couldn't say a thing as I saw Jimmy grab at the knife. He picked up the real one by pure mistake. It was a mean looking knife.
"I heard fellow actor Michael C. Hall yelling at Jimmy to stop but it was too late. I felt the thud in my chest. I didn't have on a metal breast plate like a lot of actors do in a scene like that.
"Instead I had a piece of acrylic clear plastic about the size of a Post-it note over my heart. It was a quarter of an inch thick and not attacked. In eight out of 10 takes with the prop knife, Jimmy had missed the plastic. But by a miracle, an act of God, the knife landed at the very edge of the plastic.
"I really thought I'd been stabbed in the heart, but I didn't have a scratch. Jimmy was devastated and couldn't stop apologizing. I told him, I felt more sorry for him than me."
DEXTER can be seen Sundays on Showtime at 9pm. DEXTER'S first season will soon be seen, edited of course, on CBS in February during sweeps week. This will make CBS the first broadcast network to program an entire season of a premium cable series.
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