Michael C. Hall: “Dexter is already caught”

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Tonight is the penultimate episode of Showtime's "Dexter's" penultimate season, and eponymous star Michael C. Hall, who has made a career of handling the dead for over a decade — first as repressed, gay undertaker David Fisher on HBO's "Six Feet Under," and now as a serial killer with a moral code who methodically dispenses Miami of its worst criminals — is starting to contemplate life beyond the macabre. It's been an eerie decade for Hall, having to portray two different men on either side of the corpse business who are both haunted and guided by the ghosts of their fathers, because it’s an experience that’s all too familiar. The actor lost his dad when he was 11, and had his own brush with mortality four years ago, when, at 38 — the same age Hall's father was when he died from prostate cancer — he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. (Hall has been in remission ever since.)

Hall talked with Salon earlier this week about his brilliantly morbid TV career trajectory, the virtues of playing an uptight funeral director, and the fate that awaits Miami’s most prolific murderer.

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Michael C. Hall: “Dexter is already caught”