Christina Milian Kept Thinking About Her Teenage Heathers Poster in First Scene with Christian Slater on Dexter (Exclusive)

Christina Milian had Jason Dean in mind when she walked on set Dexter prequel.

The actress, 43, stars alongside Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Dexter: Original Sinand she tells PEOPLE that it was hard for her not to think about heathers a poster she had on her wall as a teenager when she was on set.

“My first scene I ever did was with Christian! And I – [there’s] this voice from behind [of my head] — my Michael C. Hall was telling me a whole different story while I was doing the scene,” she says, referring to Dexter star’s inner monologue, which also narrates the original 2006 series and the prequel. “Like, ‘Remember when you … put his poster on the wall? Do you remember that?’

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Calling Slater, 55, Dempsey and Gellar “legends” and “icons”, Milian admits that, apart from her heathers-related to excitement, she had great nerves working with an all-star cast.

“Yes! Are you kidding me?” she says.

James Martinez as Batista and Christina Milian as LaGuerta in ‘Dexter: Original Sin’.

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“It took me months to get over the nervous part,” she admits. “I still experienced those friendly, fun, crazy moments with them from day one.”

She decided to be honest about her nerves though, telling her colleagues how “nervous” but “excited” she was. “It eased the stress a bit.”

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Milian was not the only fan on the set of the prequel series. Gellar, who plays Miami Metro Police Chief CSI Tanya Martin, told PEOPLE, “heathers it was – and Christian knows it – my favorite movie of all time in, I mean, the world.”

Working with Dempsey wasn’t too shabby either. “I can’t lie, if you went back to high school Sarah and you said you’d be sitting in the car sandwiched between Christian Slater and Pat Dempsey… I mean, forget about it,” admitted Gellar, 47. “Ronald Miller and JD? Forget about it.” .”

Christian Slater as Harry Morgan and Patrick Dempsey as Captain Aaron Spencer in ‘Dexter: Original Sin’.

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As for what Slater thinks about his co-star’s crush, he told PEOPLE, “She might have said she had a crush on me at some point in her life. But God, I mean, I love her too. She’s amazing.”

He was also excited to be reuniting with Dempsey, 58, who he worked with “30 years ago” on a “funny gangster film”. Mobsters.

It was wonderful to reconnect with him, Slater said. – It was really, really great.

“It’s a zinger,” he continued of the 1991 film they worked on together. “It’s really something. We got our Tommy guns and it’s a pretty funny movie. But it was great to reconnect with it. It was really, really great.” Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

New episodes Dexter: Original Sin premiere Fridays on Paramount+ with the SHOWTIME plan.

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