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Dexter Star Michael C Hall Admits To Stalking People In Real Life To Prepare For Role

Dexter Star Michael C Hall Admits To Stalking People In Real Life To Prepare For Role

Dexter ans might be surprised to know that Michael C Hall basically used to method act being a stalker for the role.

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Ahead of the upcoming reboot of TV series Dexter, lead actor Michael C Hall has bizarrely admitted to stalking people in real life as preparation for the role.

For those unaware, the character he plays happens to be a serial killer, which does make it pretty intense.

As per cleansheet, during a 2013 interview, he joked: "I used the fact that I got the part to justify the stalking.

"I was living in New York at the time and I had some time to kill [pun intended]."

Back when he was first offered the part, Hall was preparing extensively, and did quite a bit of research on serial killers and their motives and methods ahead of the start of filming.

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Despite watching all of the documentaries he could, and reading books about the subject, there were just some parts of the role that he really needed to inhabit himself.

So, he decided to follow some people about, as you do.

Hall explained: "I would go out by myself in New York and try to find someone who was also alone.

"Maybe go to a restaurant with a bar, have a seat in the corner, and find somebody.

"I would watch them finish their meal and endow them with all kinds of reprehensible characteristics [to make them] a potential victim for Dexter."

So, of course he knows how weird this sounds.

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In that same interview, he clarified his actions, adding: "I wasn't going to actually do anything."

Phew.

He concluded: "I would [just] see what it felt like to follow them a little bit from a block or so away. It's easy in Manhattan because there are people everywhere."

The highly anticipated reboot of the hit-show will be titled Dexter: New Blood and is set to return to our screens on Sunday 7th November 2021.

However, if you're from the UK, you'll have to wait an extra day.

Dexter: New Blood will air in the UK from Monday 8th November 2021, with episodes available 10pm every Monday on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW.

The new synopsis reads: Set 10 years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, he is now living under an assumed name in Upstate New York, Iron Lake, far from his original home in Miami.

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Topics: TV and Film