This show is different in so many ways, and reframes the character in so many ways. I think Clyde has such an appreciation for the fundamental DNA of the show, in spite of the fact that it’s in a different context. What does Clyde Phillips, who returns to the show as showrunner after the first few seasons, bring to the table with New Blood? But ya (pauses) he was still there (smiles). It had been a long time and I didn’t know exactly how it would feel to be him again.
I felt my body respond in a way that felt like him (laughs). One of the first scenes we shot included a moment where Dexter unexpectedly comes upon this pool of blood in a barn and is affected in ‘his way’. He did indeed have a way of being that which was unique to him. Dexter was still there within me, you know. And yet once I was on set and we started doing scenes, I found that I was instinctively doing things and moving in certain ways that felt eerily familiar. That’s not something that I spent much time consciously thinking about. What did you have to do to dive back into the attitude and mannerisms of Dexter? It creates some sort of imaginative landscape which is more flexible. Not just because Harrison (Dexter’s son, played by Jack Alcott) is older now and that presents storytelling opportunities, but also spiritually and psychologically, Dexter has had some space between who he was then and who he is now. I think that the time that’s passed created some sort of space, storytelling-wise. He had to run away for whatever reasons and though he will now be shown to live under an alias, I do think that he is making an earnest and legitimate attempt to being as normal a person as he ever has been. But I don’t think it would have been made then also. The show has a lot of decisive blanks that the audience had to fill in when it ended in 2013.Ī few years ago, I don’t think this newly crafted persona would have worked so well. He is obviously familiar to us but there are some things that are, if not fundamentally, but significantly different.
Some things could have potentially worked then but I don’t think this could have worked. Do you think the audience needed 10 years to fully accept a new character with a mysterious past? Could this not have worked, say in 2016? Dexter: New Blood will start streaming on Voot Select from 7.30am on November 8.Īfter watching the first few episodes of Dexter: New Blood, I can safely say that your character Jim Lindsay is a synchronous follow-up to Dexter Morgan. Over a cross-continental video call, t2oS chatted with Hall, now 50, on returning to play one of the most iconic characters in global television history, the challenge of being Dexter and why the character needed to make a comeback.
Hall reprising the title role (in which Dexter is shown living a ‘normal life’ under an alias) and Clyde Phillips as showrunner, a role he occupied during the original series’s first four seasons.
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Now, eight years later, Dexter returns with a 10-episode limited series titled Dexter: New Blood, with Michael C. In 2013, Dexter’s series finale drew 2.8 million viewers, the largest overall audience in Showtime’s history, but a large part of the Dexter fandom was highly disappointed with the open-ended, infuriating end to what had been an entertaining roller-coaster ride till then. The show’s winning mix of grotesque suspense and dark humour resulted in Dexter showing up for a whopping eight seasons, with praise for Hall - who battled and defeated cancer while filming the series and accepted his Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award in 2010 for the part while undergoing chemotherapy - getting stronger with every season.
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