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Michael C. Hall is up for a Golden Globe this year, thanks to his sterling work on Dexter. We caught up with him earlier this year at the Showtime party for the Television Critics Association, where he admitted that he takes what happens to Dexter personally.
When asked if he wanted people in Dexter’s live to learn his horrifying secret, Hall immeidiately responded, “Oh, God, no. That’s a horrifying prospect. The prospect of anybody close to Dexter finding out chills me to the bone.”
Hall also said that Dexter becoming a single father has changed how he plays the role. “The father he was in the fourth season is different from the father he’ll struggle to be in the fifth given that he’s now a single dad,” said Hall. “I don’t know, think the show works because it’s imminently relatable and yet it’s a really extreme character in the midst of relatable situations.”
Despite his insight into his character, Hall said he’ll never truly know Dexter. “He’s elusive. That’s the great thing about this job. It’s never boring. He continues to evolve and change,” said Hall.
“It’s beyond anything I ever anticipated in the beginning, where we are now, the story we’re telling now, where the character is, what’s happened in his life and I’m happy with that. I felt like it had to be some sort of movement forward towards some percolating sense of his own humanity, but how that went down, I had no idea.”
I mean, Julia Stiles didn’t breakup Michael C Hall and Jennifer Carpenter!
I have to wonder if the change is due to the very mixed reviews of Season 5. That even though the show garnered it’s highest viewer ratings ever, they may not be taking any chances. I liked Season 5, I actually think it was the perfect style of storyline that needed to follow Rita’s brutal murder and just the right amount of heart that a serial killer needs when his entire world is turned upside down.