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Dec 6
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Hilarie Burton don’t have a nanny for their son Gus

A few weeks ago, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and his baby-mama Hilarie Burton walked their first red carpet together in months. Hilarie gave birth to JDM’s son last year, although the whole thing was very hush-hush, and most people didn’t even know Hilarie was pregnant (much less “pregnant with Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s baby”) at the time. The whole thing seems to be a sketchy situation, and I was honestly surprised that JDM and Hilarie were still together, two years after their relationship “overlapped” with JDM’s relationship with Mary-Louise Parker. Anyway, just to add an extra dash of weirdness, JDM and Hilarie refused to even confirm the gender of their baby for more than a year. But now that the kid is 20 months old, Jeffrey is finally talking about him:

It looks like actors Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan aren’t the only ones who can put on a good show. The parents of son Gus, 20 months, admit their “rowdy” baby boy is already giving them a run for their money.

“He learned how to say, ‘No.’ He used to say, ‘I’m done,’ and now he looks at you and says, ‘No!’” Morgan, 45, told PEOPLE during the Twilight: Breaking Dawn premiere on Nov. 14 in Los Angeles.

“It’s like, ‘Gus, can you come here?’ He’s like, ‘No!’”

But, for now, Burton, 29, adds that Gus’s newfound defiance is all fun and games. “He says it with a laugh, like it’s hilarious,” the White Collar star says.

The tight trio recently spent time in Miami Beach as Morgan filmed his new show Magic City and, despite the constant juggling of job and baby, the couple coped — mostly — on their own.

“It’s hard. Between the two of us, we’ve had our hands full. But we’ve managed to do it without any help,” the actor reveals. “We have babysitters now and again, but we don’t have nannies. We wing it, man.”

However, their no-nanny stance hasn’t come without the occasional sacrifice. “This is our second pseudo adult-night out,” he laughs.

“I’m going to say pseudo because I’m not sure if Twilight is an adult night. It’s a night out.”

[From People Magazine]

LMAO at a baby saying “I’m done.” Hey, bad parents – teach your babies how to say “I quit this bitch” next. And then maybe “Kiss my ass.” Anyway, the baby’s name is Gus and Hilarie and Jeffrey are still together and they’re raising the kid together without any nannies, apparently. Do you think this is the truth? I don’t even know. There’s so much weirdness with this couple.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Nov 15
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan is still with his “secret” baby-mama Hilarie Burton

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About two years ago, something really sketchy went down with Jeffrey Dean Morgan. He had been dating Mary-Louise Parker and they seemed really tight and really sexy, and then suddenly their relationship seemed to skid out of control. They suddenly became very “off and on” and they finally seemed to end circa fall/winter 2009. MLP quickly found a new piece, who she’s been with ever since. But many people think that the reason JDM and MLP’s relationship got so sketchy so fast was because Jeffrey had some kind of relationship with CW chick Hilarie Burton, and Hilarie got pregnant two seconds into their relationship/affair. Hilarie gave birth to JDM’s son in Spring of 2010, and she walked one red carpet with him shortly after giving birth. The whole “secret baby” thing was real – Hilarie “went into hiding” for months, and she and Jeffrey only confirmed the birth of the kid months later, and even then, Hilarie won’t even confirm the name of their son.

Last night, Hilarie and JDM walked their second red carpet together within a year at the premiere of Breaking Dawn. I guess we’re supposed to think that they’re still together, then. That they’re a happy little family and that she tamed him and his wandering dong? I used to dislike Hilarie on principle, and while I still think she’s a ball of sketchiness, I grew to like her character on White Collar. Whatever, though – it’s so weird to me that Hilarie and JDM are still together, at least publicly. Weird couple.

PS… How f–king good does JDM look in these photos? This man is delicious. Completely random and probably douchey about women, but he’s FINE.

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Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Aug 3
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Hilarie Burton barely confirms that she had Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s baby

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Back in April of this year, Jeffrey Dean Morgan brought his mother and his girlfriend, Hilarie Burton, to the premiere of one of his films. I was surprised to see him with Hilarie Burton – she looks very young, and very… interchangeable with every other brunette chick on the CW. Several commenters pointed out that Hilarie and JDM hadn’t just started dating – they had been quietly “seeing each other” for about a year, and that Hilarie had given birth to their baby. A few weeks later, Us Weekly confirmed the total random gossip and speculation that Hilarie had indeed given birth, and that everything had been very quiet and hush-hush, and that Hilarie basically went into hiding for a year. It was a really strange story. And it gets even weirder.

Hilarie just got a gig on White Collar, filming in New York. I guess the Associated Press sent a reporter out to ask her questions about JDM and the baby, and her answers were just… weird. Like, she got to bone JDM for more than a year, and she wants to front like she doesn’t want to brag about it! What the hell?

New mom Hilarie Burton (formerly of One Tree Hill) is breaking her silence — just a tad — about the baby boy she and boyfriend Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Watchmen) secretly welcomed earlier this year.

As first revealed in Us Weekly in May, Burton, 28, began dating Morgan, 44, in 2009, and “their relationship moved pretty quickly,” an insider told Us. The actress was not photographed in public between May 6, 2009 and April 20, 2010, when she and Morgan went public with their romance at an L.A. film premiere.

Now back at work to film episodes of USA’s series White Collar in NYC, Burton told the Associated Press recently that she and Morgan are “really happy, and we’re a very good team. And we got very lucky that our family is what it is.”

But Burton still would not tell the AP the name of their son or his birth date.

“I want to protect them like a mama wolf should,” she explained of her new family.

Burton divorced One Tree Hill assistant director Ian Prange in 2008. It’s the first child for Burton, but not Morgan: he learned in March 2009 that he had a 5-year-old son with actress Sherrie Ross.

[From Us Weekly]

It’s not like Hilarie and JDM are some super-famous couple. In fact, the seeming weirdness of this situation probably gives them more press than if they had their publicists issue a short little announcement. She won’t even confirm the kid’s name?!? Oh, and maybe I could understand it if she was leaving Hollywood and she was just tired of the life, but she’s still acting! She’s on White Collar, for goodness sake. This whole thing is just so strange. Do you think it’s all about the sketchy timeline for when he and Mary-Louise Parker broke up? Are there more secret love children out there?

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Hilarie and JDM on April 20, 2010. Credit: WENN.

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May 6
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan really did have a secret baby with that CW chick
The Losers Los Angeles Premiere

A few weeks ago, I posted some photos of Jeffrey Dean Morgan at his big premiere for The Losers. JDM had brought his mom and his girlfriend as his “dates”. I was sorely disappointed to see that he was with a very young-looking woman who I didn’t know at all. Turns out it was Hilarie Burton, one of those random CW chicks. I posted the story, and then some commenters corrected me – I thought JDM and Burton had only recently started dating, but according to certain commenters, JDM & Hilarie had been dating for at least a year, and they already had a baby together.

Now, I have to admit, I thought some of you were full of sh-t. I mean, a secret baby? That was only a vague whisper on the internet? Who does that? This isn’t Hollywood in the 1940s, actresses don’t have to go into hiding when they get pregnant. But, as Us Weekly has just confirmed, it’s the truth:

Grey’s Anatomy alum Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 44, and his girlfriend, former One Tree Hill star Hilarie Burton, 27, quietly welcomed a baby boy a few months ago, reports the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now).

The source tells Us Weekly the two began dating in 2009, and “their relationship moved really quickly.”

The actress, who divorced One Tree Hill assistant director Ian Prange in 2008, was not photographed in public between May 6, 2009, and April 20, 2010. For his part, Morgan is already familiar with daddy duties: He learned just last March that he had a son, now 5, with actress Sherrie Ross.

“She would be a fantastic mother,” Burton’s ex Prange told Us recently.

[From Us Weekly]

WTF? I mean, it’s not like JDM is ashamed to be dating her – he brought her to his premiere. So why all the hiding and the secrets? I don’t get it. While JDM’s fame is on the rise, it’s not like he’s the kind of celebrity getting pap’d every day (or even every week or every month), so don’t tell me it’s about privacy. Why did they keep this sh-t locked down? Was it because of a sketchy timeline? Because this time last year, Jeffrey was rumored to be reconciling with Mary-Louise Parker. Finding out that he knocked up some CW chick would certainly put a strain on his relationship with MLP, and perhaps that’s why they ended things for real.

The Losers Los Angeles Premiere

The Losers Los Angeles Premiere

The Losers Los Angeles Premiere

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Apr 21
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s girlfriend is one of those random CW chicks

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ARGH! I just now saw that The Losers had its big premiere in LA last night, and I was going to write about the lovely and talented and sexy Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Unfortunately, I got c-ckblocked by this chick, Hilarie Burton. This is Jeffrey’s new girlfriend…? The New York Post says she’s his new girlfriend. At first I was all “oh, she must be some random actress in The Losers, that’s why she’s got her hands all over my boyfriend.” And then I thought, “I don’t like this bitch’s face, or the way she’s touching him.” And then I thought, “I’m going to check her out, see who she is.” Yes, I have the thought process of a deranged stalker, especially when it’s about one of my boyfriends.

So I looked her up – first thing I noticed was her age. She’s 27 years old, 17 years younger than Jeffrey. Ugh. Second thing: she’s one of those totally random CW girls. She was on One Tree Hill. Jeffrey had an on-again, off-again relationship with The Coolness, Mary-Louise Parker. And now he’s with a CW girl? Really?!? Aim higher, Jeffrey.

UPDATE: Jesus, they have a baby together?!? And she just gave birth two seconds ago. My God. He really does keep on the downlow.

Jeffrey also brought his mom. What is it with these huge, manly men and their little tiny mothers? Gerard Butler’s mom is tiny too!

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Anyway, I need a palate cleanser after the CW chick. How about some Jason Patrick and Chris Evans? That’s the best I can do from this premiere. They’re both looking pretty cute though:

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Premiere of The Losers on April 20, 2010, in LA. Credit: WENN.

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Apr 1
'10
A little Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the morning

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This should be our new thing, right? Every so often, when we’re feeling overwhelmed with bad gossip, we should just have a nice post celebrating a hot guy (like Clive Owen, or this one). Thus, a little Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the morning. These are photos of JDM last night at the LA premiere of Clash of the Titans. He’s not in the movie or anything, I guess he just went to the premiere to actually see the movie. And he rarely makes the Hollywood rounds, so I’m enjoying this little appearance.

JDM became reasonably famous when he played a series of dying or dead men in shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Weeds, but he parlayed that into bigger parts in films like Watchmen and P.S. I Love You (he was honestly the best part of that horrible film, apologizes to Gerard Butler). He’s been around for a while, and he’s got no fewer than five films coming out this year, including the soon-to-be-released The Losers. I just saw an ad for The Losers, and although it looks like budget Tarantino/Elmore Leonard, it doesn’t look terrible. Here’s the trailer:

Sigh… I love JDM’s voice. And Idris Elba is in it too! That hot bitch. Anyway, JDM recently sat down for an online interview with Comic Book Resources (full piece here) to talk about The Losers, and these are some excerpts that I found interesting:

Tell us a little about your character.
Frank Clay is a special forces colonel, [who is in command of] this group of guys who kind of get set up and it’s the story of revenge and I’m the leader. There’s a lot of kicking ass. A lot of explosions. A lot of fights. A lot of all the stuff that we go to movies for. What this is is Joel Silver doing what Joel Silver became Joel Silver for doing with the “Die Hards” and the “Predators.” It’s very much a movie reminiscent of those old kind of action movies. There’s some tongue-in-cheek humor and a little sex. All that stuff that we like. All the stuff I like.

Coming off of “Watchmen,” another comic-based movie, how is this character similar or different to playing the Comedian?
This guy [Clay] has a real, actually much better sense of humor than the Comedian did. He’s not nihilistic. It’s completely different. This is much lighter. A much lighter load for me. There’s also kind of room for me to interpret this as a project where, in “Watchmen,” you had to – look, I was playing the Comedian in the most revered comic book ever written. I was confined to that. In this, I could fine-tune a lot of what I thought Frank Clay is and get to play with it a lot more. In “Watchmen” I didn’t want to change an ounce of the dialogue. For this, I could play around and have more fun. It’s more freedom as an actor to just mess around with stuff. It’s very refreshing.

Are you able to riff off-script at all, or is everything pretty tight?
No, no. I get to ad-lib. Not a lot, but if there’s something shooting that day and I come up with something, generally whatever my idea is, it can be worked in because I put enough thought into it. You just check with people first. You don’t just throw it out there. You don’t want to ruffle too many feathers. But they were real good on letting me kind of run with it.

Coming off of “Watchmen,” were you concerned about doing another graphic novel adaptation?
No, I love it. We talked briefly about that. There’s so many, now. It’s kind of an untapped world, this comic book world. I read the same scripts over and over again, and comic books are just apt. There’s this big, wide universe out there. If you’ve seen the stuff that has come out and the stuff that they’re making, it’s a trend that’s going to continue for a while. I’m happy to be in this world. I’m loving it. I love this. I could do comic book movies forever.

This is the first big movie where you’re really carrying the film. What is that like for you, playing the leading man on a film like this?
I have to be a lot more serious and on-time. Set an example. No, you still do the same character work. You just don’t have a lot of down-time. On this movie, I don’t know how long we’ve been here. I think two months. I think I had one day off, and that day off I spent on the set. I think that’s the one thing that changes. It is different. That’s only kind of a joke when I say that you have to set an example. That’s kind of the job of anyone who is in the kind of position that I’m lucky enough to be in right now. I am in every scene, and you want to make sure that you know your job and do your job right and don’t f-ck around too much. I want a studio to take a chance on me after this movie, as well. Joel and Akiva and Warner Bros. have put a lot on me and given me a lot of trust. A lot of that has to do with coming off “Watchmen.” It’s just a big deal for me. I hope that we’re making the movie that I think we are making. The stuff I’ve seen is awesome and I’m exceedingly proud of it. I think it’s going to be a really great, fun movie.

[From Comic Book Resources]

He sounds like a nice guy. You know, one of those dudes who has been working for a break for years and years and then all of a sudden he becomes a household name and it’s instant stardom. JDM’s also got the remake of Red Dawn coming out later this year too – WOLVERINES! He’s so cute. He’s like the less scary, American beefcake version of Javier Bardem. Mmm… beefcake.

JDM in LA on March 31, 2010. Credit: WENN.

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Apr 20
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Mary-Louise Parker & Jeffrey Dean Morgan are back together

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One of my favorite couples is back together! May-Louise Parker and Jeffrey Dean Morgan reunited Friday night to attend a concert in Los Angeles. The couple were on-and-off for several years, having met on the set of Weeds, where Morgan played Mary-Louise’s dead husband.

They always seemed like a real couple, one that was unbelievably sexy. The couple seemed to break up for good last year, but I don’t blame Mary-Louise for going back for seconds. From the reports of their date night, it seems like Mary-Louise was more into the music than Morgan, who “contentedly sat” watching Mary-Louise, and occasionally “nuzzled her”.

Reconciliation never looked so sweet. Reunited lovebirds Mary-Louise Parker and Jeffrey Dean Morgan left the kids at home Friday night, heading to a concert in Los Angeles for some adult fun.

“They came in both wearing leather jackets, really low-key,” a concertgoer tells RadarOnline. “At one point, Jeffrey nuzzled her as he whispered into her ear and then planted a kiss on her. It was intimate and sweet.”

Clearly there as Parker’s plus one, Morgan contentedly sat watching as she got into the music, swaying in her seat and heartily laughing at musician Josh Ritter’s jokes.

Halfway through the concert, it was Parker’s turn to lay on the affection, sweetly placing her head on his shoulder.

Adds the onlooker: “They were clearly very comfortable with each other. You can tell by the way they talk to each other that they’re best friends too.”

[From Radar Online]

So, are they back together? Are they friends with benefits? Did they ever really split? I tend to think they probably did split for a time, but kept up contact. And I’m really hoping they are truly back together, that it’s not some mutual hook-up with no strings attached sort of thing. But props to Mary-Louise for keeping a guy that hot at her beck and call.

Here’s Mary-Louise and Jeffrey in December 2008 at the P.S., I Love You premiere. Images thanks to PR Photos.com.
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Mar 27
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan didn’t know he fathered 4-year-old son

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan, of Grey’s Anatomy, Weeds and Watchmen, has been a father for four years. Here’s the kicker: he had no idea. Allegedly, he fathered a four-year-old son with actress/producer Sherrie Rose. Morgan is said to be “shocked” at the revelation. I suppose this means that when he breaks up with a girlfriend, he never, ever contacts her again. Us Magazine has more:

Denny Duquette is suddenly a daddy!

Former Grey’s Anatomy star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 42, recently found out that he has a child with actress/producer Sherrie Rose, Us Weekly reveals in its newest issue.

“Yes, I have a 4-year-old son with Jeffrey,” Rose tells Usmagazine.com.

A source adds that the Watchmen star learned of the boy a few weeks ago and has since met him.

“He’s shocked and surprised, but he wants to be in the child’s life,” the source tells Us.

Rose is an ex-girlfriend of Morgan’s. The actor is also known for his relationship with his former fiancee, Mary Louise Parker. They began dating in 2006 after meeting on the set of her Showtime series, Weeds, but she called off their engagement in April 2008.

From Us Magazine

It sounds like this woman was trying to keep their son a secret. I wonder why. Did she think that Jeffrey wouldn’t step up to his obligations and responsibilities? Did he have some idea all this time, but never really acknowledged it? Or is this son not really Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s?

As far as the theory that Sherri Rose didn’t want anyone to know… how can that be? If I had sex with Jeffrey Dean Morgan, I would be shouting it from the rooftops. It is unknown if Morgan or Sherri Rose will want a blood test to prove paternity, and I feel skeezy for even suggesting it, but it might not be a bad idea.

Sherri Rose is shown at the premiere of Old School on 2/13/03. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is shown at the premiere of Watchmen on 3/2/09. Credit: PRPhotos.

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Mar 23
'09
Watchmen’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan says ‘it was hard to shake’ The Comedian


There are many similarities between Watchmen’s The Comedian and Batman’s Joker. As it turns out, the process of acting out such cartoonish sociopaths is similar for the actors too. Just as Heath Ledger famously talked about how difficult it was to shake the Joker, now Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays The Comedian in Watchmen, is talking about the difficulties he had both physically and psychologically.

Morgan says that The Comedian is more than just “this brutal bastard of a man”, and that the character stayed with him when he went home. Morgan also had issues with his costume, because the “sweaty, squeaky” thing took six hours to put on. PR Inside has more:

Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan didn’t have to dig too deep to play a twisted and psychotic crimebuster in the hit action movie – his uncomfortable costume made him feel like killing someone.

The Grey’s Anatomy star plays The Comedian in the new movie and admits he hated the outfit he had to wear to bring his character to life.

He tells WENN, “You quickly realize it’s gonna really take six hours to put this costume on every day. So I’d come out of the costume and I’d be ready to kick somebody’s ass, because it’s such a long painful process. It’s hard to move, it’s sweaty, squeaky.”

“There was always something but ultimately it helped so much to turn myself into the character. A lot of it had to do with the costume. He’s (Comedian) a very sad soul. There’s more to him than just this brutal bastard of a man. It was hard to shake Comedian at the end of the day. There were days when I went home and thought, ‘What did I just do?’ because he was just so sad.”

From PR-Inside

I have great affection for Jeffrey Dean Morgan, despite his sometimes unfortunate jokes. I really hoped that this film would make him a huge star, and he wouldn’t have to resort to always playing the dead guy. Watchmen was an opening weekend winner, but most “industry watchers” were very disappointed, and there are low expectations for the film overseas. People kept on comparing it to the director’s other film, 300, which was an explosive hit in America and abroad. It looks like Morgan didn’t get his career-making performance yet, but I’m still watching!

Photos are stills from Watchmen thanks to Allmoviephoto.

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Mar 6
'09
Watchmen’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan makes a bad rape joke

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan is one of my latest crushes. Have you seen this guy? He is smoking hot – great body, great voice, kind eyes and a beautiful smile. Swoon! I’m a little late to the party, I realize. I don’t watch “Grey’s Anatomy”, that’s why I’ve only started liking him now. I’m not alone – he’s about to break out in a huge way, if Watchmen is the kind of success some are predicting.

Morgan plays The Comedian, “whose murder kick-starts the story” according to the LA Times (is that a spoiler? I doubt it.). Eddie Blake, a.k.a. the Comedian is a brutal son of a bitch, an anti-hero who, according to Morgan “rapes, murders and pillages his way through the movie.” The LAT has a pretty good interview piece with Morgan:

After years as a struggling actor, the 42-year-old Morgan has been receiving an intense indoctrination in the ways of celebrity. First, the Seattle native took on the role of Denny Duquette, the doomed hunk with a heart, on “Grey’s Anatomy” and connected with fans and the show’s producers so deeply that the character was brought back from the dead (sort of) to become a spectral lover for Katherine Heigl’s confused Izzy Stevens. That made him a haunting heartthrob to millions of viewers. And now, as a star of “Watchmen,” the hotly anticipated (and debated) superhero epic that reaches theaters Friday, Morgan finds himself becoming an instant icon to the millions of fanboys who approach the “Watchmen” graphic novel as something close to a sacred text and the Hollywood adaptation as a sort of spandex-cinema equivalent to “The Passion of the Christ.”

“These people take ['Watchmen'] very seriously, and with good reason,” Morgan said last weekend as he enjoyed a much-needed smoke after several smothering hours at WonderCon, the massive pop-culture expo at the Moscone Center. Thousands of fans had waited in line for hours to hear Morgan and fellow cast members talk about their characters and themselves on a panel that, within minutes, was pinging across the globe thanks to flip-phone cameras and the Internet.

On “Grey’s,” Morgan was “the ultimate nice guy,” as he put it, but fans of that show are in for a nasty shock if they decide to take in a weekend matinee of “Watchmen.” In the movie, an adaptation of the landmark 1980s graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons that presented a political and operatic tale of superheroes living in an alternative version of America in which Richard Nixon remained president into the MTV era and a mysterious conspiracy threatens the world. Morgan portrays Eddie Blake, a.k.a. the Comedian, a scarred, leering “hero” who “rapes, murders and pillages his way through the movie,” Morgan said with some delight.

“It’s not Denny Duquette,” he said, “not by a long shot.”

Morgan is still trying to carve out a Hollywood profile apart from his roles (at industry events, he has been approached by well-wishers who mistake him for last year’s Oscar winner Javier Bardem), and right now an odd trademark seems to be developing: On “Weeds” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” he was the ghost of the past, the lover lost too young; and in “Watchmen,” his murder fills the first five minutes of the film and serves as the catalyst for the unfolding conspiracy plot.

“I do some of my best work,” Morgan said, “when I’m dead.” People are noticing too: Jimmy Kimmel introduced him as “the unkillable Jeffrey Dean Morgan” during his January visit to Kimmel’s late-night talk show.

In “Watchmen,” Morgan and costar Jackie Earle Haley (who plays an obsessive masked misanthrope named Rorschach) are the actors getting the most early praise for their work in an ensemble that also includes Billy Crudup and Malin Akerman. The Comedian’s name is ironic (just like the Joker, last year’s most memorable comics character on screen), and he barrels through the movie as a ferocious government operative who delights in his black-bag assignments and, for a time, shrugs off casualties in his personal life. The role could have easily slipped into two-dimensional thug, but fans of the film say Morgan’s portrayal has more layers.

During the film, the antihero is seen murdering a former lover, sexually assaulting a fellow hero, assassinating a president and gleefully plowing through a battlefield littered with charred corpses. Morgan said the graphic novel, the script and director Zack Snyder helped him find a way to commit ugly acts but still look the audience in the eye.

“When I was reading the graphic novel and the script, I kept thinking: Why is it I don’t hate this guy? He is so well-drawn there is something close to sympathy for him as a character even though he’s a monster. The writing brings out the humanity in him, and that’s what I looked for when I got in the costume.”

Morgan is proud of his time as the beyond-the-grave nice guy on “Grey’s Anatomy,” but, after all the syrupy YouTube tributes to the soapy character, the bad boy in him is clearly enjoying the flamethrower tour of duty in “Watchmen.”

During the panel in San Francisco, a fan at the microphone asked Morgan to talk about a memorable moment during the filming in Vancouver, Canada, and, with a deadpan baritone, Morgan said: “I loved the rape scene.”

After some gasps from the audience and a long, perfectly timed beat, the former nice-guy-turned-Comedian grinned and said: “Joking!”

[From the LA Times]

Rape jokes. Not funny, New Crush. But I can totally understand how he would want to be seen as more than a dead husband on some soapy doctor drama. Look at him! The man’s a machine!

Watchmen was directed by Zack Snyder, who did 300. My guess is that the film will do for Jeffrey Dean Morgan what 300 did for Gerard Butler – make him a household name with the big film projects to back it up. Butler and Morgan have actually worked together before, in that absolutely horrible, depressing movie P.S. I Love You. Let’s hope the two hotties get to work together again, this time in a film with a lot of nudity. Fingers crossed!

Here’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan at the ‘Watchmen’ premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Monday. Images thanks to Fame.com and BauerGriffinOnline.

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