Michael C. Hall Describes The ‘Scary Surprise’ Of Sliding Back Into The Mind Of Dexter Morgan For ‘Dexter: New Blood’

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(CBS) – It’s been 8 years since Dexter‘s bid finale aired and present fans are conscionable a fewer days distant from diving backmost into the twisted satellite of Dexter Morgan. Dexter: New Blood premieres Sunday, November 7th astatine 9:00PM ET and picks up 10 years aft the events of 2013’s Dexter finale.

CBS‘ Matt Weiss spoke to bid prima Michael C. Hall astir reprising his relation arsenic Dexter, the show’s caller mounting and what’s successful store for Sunday night’s premiere.

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MW- Hello Michael, bully to spot you today! Dexter: New Blood comes to SHOWTIME connected Sunday, November 7th astatine 9PM ET. First off, invited backmost and how’s it consciousness to beryllium stepping into Dexter Morgan’s shoes again?

MCH- It feels good, but it was a trip, you know. I mean I’d spent astir 8 years playing a character, astir 8 years distant from it, and to spell backmost and ideate being him again with the cameras turned backmost connected was dissimilar thing I’ve experienced oregon astir apt volition acquisition again. It was a batch of fun.

MW- It’s a quality that I ideate takes a small spot of enactment to get yourself into that headspace…

MCH- Yeah, what I was pleasantly amazed to observe was that helium was inactive precise overmuch there, inactive precise familiar. I don’t cognize if that’s a pleasant astonishment oregon a scary surprise, but a astonishment that yet I welcome. We’re doing it again and I didn’t consciousness similar helium was a alien to me.

MW- Was this thing that had been talked astir down the scenes for a portion oregon was it conscionable 1 time you got the telephone and it was clip to go?

MCH- No, it was an ongoing speech that would travel up and spell away. There were antithetic proposals astir what we mightiness do. Due to the mode the amusement ended we were alert of arsenic this arsenic a anticipation astir close away. Honestly it wasn’t thing I was funny successful astatine all, astatine slightest for a time, and past it became thing that I would consider.

It wasn’t until this peculiar communicative emerged that it felt worthy doing and a batch of that had to bash with the magnitude of clip that’s passed. The communicative we’re telling is precise babelike connected Dexter’s lad having grown into a young man, and we needed to hold for Harrison to virtually turn up.

MW- Take maine done the mounting of New Blood and what radical tin expect to spot from this series?

MCH- Yea, truthful Dexter lives successful upstate New York successful a precise isolated place, successful a tiny town, successful a agrarian area. He works connected knives and guns astatine a sporting goods store. He lives nether an alias, Jim Lindsey, and he’s committed to a beingness of abstinence, helium hasn’t killed since we past saw him.

I deliberation helium is lone present coming into a spot wherever he’s comfy engaging with the satellite successful a much important way. He has a woman on with his job, helium has affable relationships. Maybe not a batch of adjacent friends but he’s making it successful spite of the information that he’s surviving nether a mendacious name. He’s making an earnest effort to cobble unneurotic a mean life.

MW- And you mentioned that Harrison is simply a portion of New Blood and we saw him towards the extremity of the trailer. Will determination beryllium different radical who popular up from the original?

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MCH- There volition beryllium immoderate appearances of acquainted faces. As you tin ideate fixed that he’s sitting successful a wholly antithetic spot and nether a antithetic sanction he’s taken pains to disappear. He truly distanced himself from his erstwhile aforesaid and each the vestiges of that life.

MW- You mentioned it was precise important for Harrison to turn up to beryllium portion of the show, what relation volition we beryllium seeing from him?

MCH- I mean he’s a kid but he’s connected the cusp of becoming a young antheral and truthful he’s a overmuch much of a affluent and hard idiosyncratic for Dexter to woody with. He has a batch of questions, helium has a batch of resentment. He’s idiosyncratic who’s going to request to beryllium reckoned with for Dexter.

Along with dealing with the reemergence of a teenage lad who you abandoned and each the complications that spell on with that there’s besides the information that Dexter is who helium is. Dexter has these suspicions, slash, adjacent hopes that Harrison is who helium is. So each of those things volition perchance travel into play.

MW- You mentioned a large portion of wanting to bash this present was the magnitude of clip that’s passed betwixt the extremity of play 8 and wherever we are now. What made you consciousness similar this is the close time?

MCH- Well, I mean I deliberation personally determination was conscionable a bully magnitude of region that I enactment betwixt myself and the acquisition of having done it backmost then. I felt similar the residue of that acquisition was gone and I could benignant of re-investigate the quality from a caller place. Obviously Harrison increasing up was large and it’s besides conscionable getting immoderate cardinal pieces of the originative squad backmost together.

Our squad is afloat of radical who truly cognize what it was and are capable to intuitively make a definite magnitude of connective insubstantial to what it utilized to beryllium portion creating thing new. Also I deliberation the amusement was very, precise overmuch beloved but radical were besides beauteous dissatisfied by the mode it ended. I deliberation we had a tendency to instrumentality work for that and reply immoderate questions that were hanging there.

MW- And the roadworthy to getting those answers begins connected November 7th truthful what are you astir excited astir for radical to spot successful this archetypal episode?

MCH- Oh man, I deliberation for them to spot a quality they’re precise acquainted with successful an unfamiliar concern and environment. I deliberation it’ll beryllium amusive for them to beryllium successful connected the concealed of who helium truly is successful a mode that nary 1 successful his satellite is. Not adjacent conscionable his erstwhile beingness arsenic a serial slayer but conscionable his erstwhile beingness arsenic Dexter Morgan.

I deliberation it is hard for maine to cognize what the acquisition of watching it is similar for idiosyncratic who’s not connected the wrong but I bash deliberation the assemblage will, successful their way, consciousness similar they’re connected the inside. When they’re watching it present they cognize the truth.

MW- A ton of radical looking guardant to being successful connected the concealed this clip for sure. Michael, convey you truthful overmuch for the clip and each the champion moving forward.

MCH- All right, acknowledgment a lot. Thank you.

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Dexter: New Blood comes to SHOWTIME this Sunday, November 7th. Check your section listings for much information.

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