For those who haven't heard the news, Micheal publicly announced that he had Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which he is now in remission from. Same thing happens to Andy Whitfield, Spartacus. Hey, well let's talk about Dexter again. Our favorite serial killer will have the hardest time of his life.
Here the interview with Michael C. Hall from
http://www.collider.com/2010/09/25/michael-c-hall-interview-dexter-season-5/#more-50681
Question: Is this season a new origin story?
Michael: When we learned what happened to Dexter toward the end of the first season, we knew that he was this innocent baby in a pool of his mother’s blood, having watched her die. Now, Dexter is coming home to find his flesh and blood son in a pool of his wife’s blood, but Dexter is no longer innocent. The blood is, at least in part because of his passivity in regards to killing Trinity, on his hands. It’s that very thing.
How would you compare this guilt to Season 2, after killing his own brother?
Michael: I think that was a kill that was pragmatic, in spite of it being heavy. It had to be done. He made a choice between that guy and his sister, so it was a very different thing. I think there are deep scars that probably happen every time Dexter kills somebody, but as far as them blooming into a sense of remorse, I don’t think that’s the case there.
What reaction did you get from people to last season’s finale?
Michael: The reactions were varied. Some people were traumatized, horrified, exhilarated, perplexed, in a tailspin or shot out of a cannon. It’s been a lot of different things to different people.
How does it impact this season?
Michael: We have to pick up and take responsibility for the real dismantling of the structure of Dexter’s world.
Do his step-kids blame Dexter for Rita’s death?
Michael: They’re working through their own grief. Astor is having a general frustration with her relationship to her own father, and then to Dexter, and to not having a father around. She’s fed up and she feels that Dexter promised that everything would be okay and he would protect her mother, and he didn’t do that.
How is it to play Dexter as a single father?
Michael: Everything that has gone beyond the first season has been uncharted waters, and the fact that he is now a father is a big part of that, for sure. 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. I don’t know. I think the show works because it’s imminently relatable, and yet it’s a really extreme character, in the midst of relatable situations.
He was already spread so thin with a wife. How can he balance his activities now?
Michael: Well, he hires a nanny (Maria Doyle Kennedy). There’s a lot of stuff that we don’t see. Maybe he has a special, sleep coffin he gets in. He sleeps two hours, but it feels like six.
What was the process of Dexter interviewing nannies like?
Michael: Actually, Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) takes the lead on that. She’s good with interrogating people.
How is Dexter dealing with remorse? Does he have any?
Michael: I think it’s sublimated. I don’t know if he’s consciously aware of it, and yet I think a lot of the things he does and doesn’t do, at the outset of the fifth season and throughout it, are motivated by some subterranean sense of remorse that he can’t even quite consciously be aware of. I think he does want to atone.
There has to be a grieving and sadness after Rita’s death. With the malicious glee of Dexter’s lifestyle, how are those two things going to mix together?
Michael: Stay tuned because that’s the mess that we’ve made of it. It’s like, “Oh, this has real consequences.”
Did you miss the possibility of having a scene where Rita finds out what Dexter does and confronts him?
Michael: Oh, God, no. That’s a horrifying prospect. The prospect of anybody close to Dexter finding out, chills me to the bone.
Is there anybody in the department that Dexter works with that, in a moment of weakness, he would confide in?
Michael: The short answer would be no, but Dexter relishes opportunities to reveal himself covertly and say things that are true, on one level. But, no, I don’t think so. I certainly hope not.
Aren’t there one or two characters who’d be okay with it and cover for him?
Michael: Not enough to risk letting them know actively. It never works out for the people who find out.
Are you looking forward to Dexter dating again, at some point down the line?
Michael: I don’t think that word is in his vocabulary, at this point. I don’t think he aspires to it. I’m sure Dexter will be thrust into unique relationships, but I don’t think he’s seeking out a significant other.
Real serial killers have groupies and women sending them letters. Does you get that for Dexter?
Michael: No, not at all. Everything that finds its way to me is sane. People talk about loving the show, and they recognize that I’m an actor. I really don’t get anything from people who seem to think that I’m him, thankfully.
How do you feel about the event television Dexter has become?
Michael: It’s thrilling. We tell stories in the hopes that people will pay attention to them and get involved with them, and the fact that this is a show that people get excited about, and that it brings to them together, and that people have viewing parties, is fantastic.
Michael: I don’t lose sleep over the possibility that I’m advocating serial murder through my work. It’s undeniably relatable. He’s killing people. Most people that live in L.A., spend time in traffic and get that impulse. I’m proud of the show. When I hear comments like that, I don’t really worry that they are going to be taken to heart. I feel like it’s more a meditation on the nature of morality and our shadow side. If I hear a comment like that and I’m in the room, I just smile, nod and say “I know. I hope that this helps lessen the flames in you, and that you can watch it and have it be therapeutic.”
When you first saw the script for last season’s finale and learned about what would happen to Rita, what were you thinking Dexter should do next?
Michael: While I consciously knew that’s where things were headed, I really tried to approach everything that led up to it without that foreknowledge, and decided I’d just cross that acting bridge when it revealed itself. But, what’s interesting is this idea of atonement and that Dexter is forced, through what’s written, into those situations where he has to step into waters that he never anticipated stepping in. It starts out subterranean, but there is some sort of appetite to address his maybe not even consciously acknowledged sense of guilt, remorse or need for atonement. The circumstances of his life manifest an opportunity to do that, in a way that he doesn’t create consciously.
Will he end up getting a lot more advice from Harry?
Michael: I think the relationship with Harry is definitely becoming more dynamic this season. They’re not quite adversarial. Or, if they are, they trade arguments. That relationship evolves every time James [Remar] and I do a scene, and that’s been the case, especially since the last time we saw Harry and Dexter in the jail cell, at the top of the finale from last season. There was a real spark there, and I think we’ve tried to build on that.
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