But there are no immediate plans to do that.”Īs well as plays like Thom Pain, Hall has been appearing in one-off roles, like playing John F. But there’s still something potentially there. In terms of discussions around the series, Hall said, “There have been different possibilities that have come up. As far as any more of that happening, it’s possible.” For him to simulate his own death and extricate himself from the context of his life made sense to me. For it to be all tidied up after that would have not been honest. He has a real connection to people, and all those people are compromised or destroyed in some way. But there’s still something potentially there.”įor Hall, the tragedy of Dexter is that “if he had kept on killing people he’d have been fine, but he gets married, he opens his imagination and heart. “There have been different possibilities that have come up. It left a gnarly knot in some viewers’ stomachs. He seems to be in this self-imposed exile, he certainly didn’t ride off into the sunset. “The next thing I know there’s an announcement on the internet saying ‘he’s going to do it again.’ The way that show ended gave no sense of closure for people and a lot of questions unanswered. “Every time I’m asked about this I say, ‘never say never,’” Hall said, smiling.
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Hall’s name and not inconsiderable fan base guarantees healthy audiences for Thom Pain, but he knows Dexter fans have a more pressing question: Will television’s best-known serial killer return, and if so when? It is chaotic and unpredictable in its way and also follows its own rules, even if they are rules only Thelonious Monk knows about.” Hall also listens to a lot of Thelonious Monk before the show, “music I have loved all my life and always will. They are a sort of visual representation of what I understand to be the spiritual or emotional core of what he up to.” Hall said, “There’s something about both of those pictures that represents maybe where I imagine Thom at the beginning of the story and at the end, which is a place of such equanimity where you could set him on fire and he’d be OK. The drawings are inspired by two photographs: Diane Arbus’ 1962 photograph of a boy with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, and Malcolm Browne’s 1963 Associated Press photographs of Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang Duc, who burned himself to death in Saigon. He may auction them off, he said, calling them “scribbled pictures of scribbled feelings.” He shows me these sequences of squiggles, and they are beautiful. Hall has decorated his dressing room with abstract drawings he imagines his character would have drawn.
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Hall still feels Bowie’s presence, he said, like an electrical charge near his solar plexus.īowie asked Hall the question that comes to many people’s minds: “So, what is it with you and death?” The full answer, which he gives today, is extremely personal and includes his own experience of cancer. And the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild winner will also remember David Bowie, who walked into his life (while Hall was working on Bowie’s final project Lazarus) smelling divine and holding a silver-tipped cane, and who died soon afterwards. He will talk about giving up alcohol, marijuana, and becoming a vegan. Having played one of television’s most radical and remembered gay characters, he will talk about "leaning in" to his own "fluid" sexuality, and the vexed cultural politics around the roles available for openly gay and trans actors and straight actors playing gay and trans roles. Handsome, charming, and eloquent, and with a light beard of reddish-gray stubble, Hall will talk about death, both as a shadow in his own life and in the roles that have made him famous. The actor lives nearby with his third wife, Morgan Macgregor, and their black long-haired dachshund Salamander. Hall’s anonymity in an Upper West Side cafe is guaranteed thanks to a baseball cap inscribed with a rainbow atop Brian Eno’s name. His fellow coffee drinkers may have seen him play the serial killer Dexter, or the hot, perennially freaked-out undertaker David Fisher in Six Feet Under, but today Michael C.