Earlier this week, Hatosy phoned Movieline to discuss his thrilling arc on Dexter, explain why being strapped down to a table underneath Michael C. Hall may have been the high point of his career and talk about his real-life gang run-in while filming Southland.
Boyd Fowler is such a phenomenally complex character. How much of a character history were you given by Dexter’s writers?
Let’s see here…nothing. I got a call from my agent basically saying that the producers wanted to talk to me about a part, which was thrilling. So they put me on the phone with Chip Johannessen and he kind of explained what Boyd was and that it would be a bit of a cat and mouse thing going on between he and Dexter.
So without much of a character history, how did you figure out who Boyd was?
You know, there was something almost innocent and pathetic about the way Boyd was written. Even looking at his and Dexter’s relationship — just seeing how excited Boyd was to have Dexter join him on the daily grind of picking up dead animals. Boyd needed companionship. And the fact that Dexter was also interested in dead things endeared him to Boyd. I just think there was an angle there. Boyd doesn’t know he’s a bad guy and he thinks what he is doing is right. So I just tried to make him as human as possible, if that makes sense.
You’ve been playing cops and detectives a lot recently. How easy was it to tap into this criminal frame of mind?
The opportunity to play a serial killer and a sociopath was very exciting considering my last, I think, three or four roles were law enforcement. But having said that, I have played killers on death row and the one thing that I always enjoy about the darker roles is that you are given more flexibility creatively. When you play Sammy Bryant on Southland, you’re wearing a suit to work every day and the only question you have is what color tie you’ll have on. But with a guy like Boyd, it’s fun all around. Even the decision to wear shorts and a shirt that buttons up and the hat and the mustache. The character builds itself and you learn slowly that the more risks you take, the better off you are. Which isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy Southland. It’s just a different taste.
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