Michael C. Hall says that hiding this scary diagnosis helped him play Dexter
This allowed him to access the darkness of the serial killer, he said.
Michael C. Hall We will remember forever for his eight -seasons race as a holder of series killing on the Showtime seriesDexter. But before winning this career role, he played the director of funeral David Fisher in theHBO drama Six feet Under ground, which means that in its two most famous performances - which earned it a Golden Globe Award and several Screen Actors Guild Awards - Hall has plunged into its dark side. Now the star shares the secret of scary health and the tragic childhood event that helped him exploit this darkness. Read the rest to find out what led his most memorable moments on the screen, and why he always felt "drawn" to complicated characters.
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Hall was attracted to Dexter's double life.
As a character, Dexter is defined by his contradictions. Although he seems externally to be a loving man and a professional in principle, he is also a dangerous psychopath motivated by an irresistible desire to kill.
For Hall, it has always been the attraction of the role. "Maybe I'mdrawn to the characters who have a kind of stormy interiority that they do not feel free to let escape, "he saidThe New York Times In 2021. "This may be how I feel my own life. Maybe I do it less in my life to have the chance to win in my work," he added.
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He says he is diagnosed with cancer during shootingDexter helped his performance.
Hall had no trouble reaching the dark depths of the character of Dexter during the first three seasons of the show. But in season four, he endured a private secret that further informed his game. After having noticed "pseudo-Grippal symptoms", the actor was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer of which affects the lymphatic system. He said toTime which deals with his diagnosis of cancer behind the sceneshelped him play Its most sadly famous role.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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It was not the star's first brush with cancer.
theDexter The diagnosis of star cancer was not the first time that the disease in shape its life.His father is dead prostate cancer at the tragically young age of 39, said HallThe New York Times In a separate article of 2010.
"I think I have been concerned since the age of 11, and my father died, with the idea of the age of 39: should I live so long? he saidTime journalists. "To discover that I had the Hodgkin was alarming, but at the same time I felt a little perplexed, like: Wow. Huh. How interesting." Hall's diagnosis took place at the age of 38.
Long before, he said that the death of his father gave him emotional access to some of the darker impulses of Dexter. "Hall intuited, wrongly or wrongly, that showing the full range of his feelings would not be appropriate. He therefore learned to cover these feelings, then later to channel them in the game", theTime wrote.
He has been in remission for more than a decade.
The actor continued to shoot the fourth season of the show, enduring his diagnosis largely in private. The day after the end of the season, he started a chemotherapy course, then returned to film the fifth season ofDexter.
Hall has now been in remission for more than a decade, but says that it has no trouble revisiting the darkness that defines his character. Requested by theTime That he can still access this side of himself after recovery, Hall insisted in a disturbing way: "Oh, that's it ... that's it."
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