Question: What was the last day of filming like, and who will you miss the most out of the cast?
Michael C. Hall: Oh, gosh. The last day was -- I mean, there was such a series of lasts over the past couple of weeks. You know, different people had their last days at different times. But the very last day was I don’t know, a combination of pride and sadness, wistfulness, and relief, and vague depression. It’s been eight years of all of our lives; cast, crew, and beyond, and there’s a collective sense of a major end, a major transition, but also a new beginning for all of us. It’s hard to pick favorites among my castmates, but I suppose the person with whom I've had the most significant journey as a character is Jennifer Carpenter and the Deb character. They've been through so much and covered so much terrain and she’s been such an amazing scene partner thorough this entire process.
Q: There has been lots of speculation that Dexter has been dead the whole time, so what do you make of that?
MCH: That he’s been dead the whole time?
Q: Like a flashback or with the voiceovers -- things like that.
MCH: You know, I'm not going to say definitively that that’s not the case, though I don’t know. I think that might be a cop out. But, I do know that when I started the show and tried to think specifically about the nature of the voiceover, I did have the thought: who is Dexter talking to? Why is he saying these things? And, I imagined him in between heaven and hell, in purgatory, and the story of his life is being played in front of him and he had to narrate it to justify his behavior to his interrogators or whatever. But, that was more just an imaginative exercise. I won’t say that it’s a total impossibility, but I don’t think we’re going to discover that Dexter is dead.
Read the full interview @ The Huffington Post
Michael C. Hall: Oh, gosh. The last day was -- I mean, there was such a series of lasts over the past couple of weeks. You know, different people had their last days at different times. But the very last day was I don’t know, a combination of pride and sadness, wistfulness, and relief, and vague depression. It’s been eight years of all of our lives; cast, crew, and beyond, and there’s a collective sense of a major end, a major transition, but also a new beginning for all of us. It’s hard to pick favorites among my castmates, but I suppose the person with whom I've had the most significant journey as a character is Jennifer Carpenter and the Deb character. They've been through so much and covered so much terrain and she’s been such an amazing scene partner thorough this entire process.
Q: There has been lots of speculation that Dexter has been dead the whole time, so what do you make of that?
MCH: That he’s been dead the whole time?
Q: Like a flashback or with the voiceovers -- things like that.
MCH: You know, I'm not going to say definitively that that’s not the case, though I don’t know. I think that might be a cop out. But, I do know that when I started the show and tried to think specifically about the nature of the voiceover, I did have the thought: who is Dexter talking to? Why is he saying these things? And, I imagined him in between heaven and hell, in purgatory, and the story of his life is being played in front of him and he had to narrate it to justify his behavior to his interrogators or whatever. But, that was more just an imaginative exercise. I won’t say that it’s a total impossibility, but I don’t think we’re going to discover that Dexter is dead.
Read the full interview @ The Huffington Post
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