Sometimes as an actor/actress you take a role for the paycheck and not because you find the character or screenplay interesting. I don't think anyone could have made this interesting.
Ben Novack was found not alive in July 2009 in a room at a New York hotel that he was sharing with his wife. His body had been pummeled with dumbbells, his eyes opened with a knife. (Couldn't they have just thrown a hairdryer in the tub while he took a bubblebath? Assholes.)