Dexter’s back for a killer third season and Michael C. Hall couldn’t wait to give us all the bloody details.
Hollywood.com: What new dimension to Dexter do you get to play this season or what are you looking forward to playing?
Michael C. Hall: I think the first season he was very much in his infancy in a way and in his adolescence in the second. And I think he’s coming into a sense at least in his conscious mind that he’s coming into his own and has a sense of ownership over who he is, over the code that he follows. It sort of belongs to him. He’s not adhering to it or answering to some father that he’s internalized anymore. So the idea that he’s becoming his own man and is maybe as integrated as he’s ever been while you know maintaining a sociopathic compulsion to kill people.
HW: Is there anything interesting from the world of serial killers that you find particularly fascinating?
MH: I’ve come across information that fits the bill…but I guess what is generally a lack of remorse on the part of these people. I think Dexter is growing as a person and maybe expresses what could be described as a genuine sense of gratitude at the end of the second season toward Lila for helping him to move forward in his life and then he puts a knife in her heart. So there are certain ways that he can move forward and experience himself as human you might say. But other ways where there’s just a disconnect.
HW: Deb is becoming increasingly frustrated with Dexter. Do you think he will ever break down with her?
MC: I don’t know. I mean once that happens, however it happens, it’s happened. So I think maintaining that possibility or that tension was really of value. And I think that tension you know it ebbs and flows but ultimately intensifies as more time passes, as more, as she becomes more and more capable as a detective and therefore more of a potential threat.
Dexter premieres Sept. 28 on Showtime
