Michael C. Hall has admitted that he has no idea how Dexter will end.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the actor explained that the series could finish in a number of ways.

“There are fundamental questions,” he said. “Is he alive when the show ends? Is he dead? If he’s dead, who kills him? The federal government? Another person? Himself?

“If he’s alive, where is he alive? In prison? Flying off into the sunset? Does he become a monk? Then there’s another season of just him meditating.”

Hall added that there are so many possible endings that there could be an entire season of Dexter devoted to them.

“I was joking with one of the writers that we could have a 12-episode season and each episode would be a different ending,” he said. “I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

Dexter continues on Sundays at 9pm on Showtime.

Source: Digital Spy

Michael C. Hall is back as the sympathetic serial killer in Showtime’s Dexter, which is entering its fifth season. A lot of changes are in store for his character: “Everything we’d seen him build up is now gone,” he said.

Michael C. Hall plays a character who has, by his own count, murdered more than 60 people. He has also done battle, in a kind of Ultimate Serial Killing Championship, with a succession of bloodthirsty adversaries, one of whom turned out to be his own brother.

So when Mr. Hall announced in January that he was undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma — shortly before accepting trophies in January at the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild award ceremonies wearing a knit cap on his bald head — it was hard not to feel a shiver at the coincidence: the star of the Showtime series Dexter, the most death-obsessed show on television, contracting a potentially fatal disease at 38.

This post may contain spoilers for readers still catching up on DVD.

Q. Are there some key themes or narrative arcs threading through Dexter this season?

A. We’re primarily dealing with the blowback from Rita’s death and the fact that Dexter is culpable. In a way, discovering his infant son in that pool of blood is a new origin story. We’re familiar with the original origin story, where Dexter is an innocent baby, but now his son is that baby and Dexter is not so innocent. So he’s carrying around a heavy dose of guilt and is motivated to atone for the responsibility he feels for his wife’s death.

If you’re waiting to watch season four of Dexter on DVD, don’t read this interview yet. The ending of last season was so shocking, we’ve got to talk about it with Michael C. Hall. Season five will pick up right after the death of, uh, that person we’re trying not to spoil. Hall did a good job teasing a group of reporters from the Television Critics Association, so all he spoiled was the fourth season, which most of us are already caught up on.

CraveOnline: How is Dexter dealing with remorse, if he has any?

Michael C. Hall: I think it’s sublimated. I don’t know if he’s consciously aware of it and yet I think a lot of the things he does and doesn’t do at the outset of the fifth season and throughout it are motivated by some sort of subterranean sense of remorse that he can’t even quite consciously be aware of but I think he does want to atone.

In a new People Magazine interview, Michael C. Hall opened up and said that his own father died of prostate cancer at age 38, and at the age of 11 he always wondered if he would live to age 39.  At age 38 he was also diagnosed with cancer, but he has made it past age 39!  Dexter is premiering in just 6 days.  Rachel at The Avid Appetite has a great Dexter cupcake recipe and a giveaway so please check it out!

After revealing earlier this year that he was battling cancer, Dexter star Michael C. Hall is healthy, whole and back in the role of Showtime’s oddly noble serial killer – and grateful for the support he received from his cast and crew during the tough period.

“I count myself lucky on so many fronts – and certainly in regards to the Hodgkin’s [lymphoma],” a fit-looking Hall, again sporting a full head of hair after his treatments, told People this week at San Diego’s Comic-Con International.

“It’s a real gift to be able to go back to work,” says Hall, 39. “One of the best things about it is that it emerged at a time when we were close to the end of shooting. I was able to treat it over the hiatus and it didn’t interrupt our production schedule, which, obviously, would have its effect on me, but it would have its effect on our cast, our crew, people who count on this family to keep making the show.”

Check out this great new interview with Michael from The LA Times. Keep in mind it may have some spoilers if you haven’t seen past seasons and are currently catching up!

When Michael C. Hall took to the stage to accept a Golden Globe in January, it represented his first win after four nominations for his role as a serial killer on Showtime’s Dexter. Just a week earlier, with awards season then in full swing and his Globes appearance at the Beverly Hilton Hotel imminent, Hall was compelled to make a startling announcement: He was undergoing a battle with lymphoma. Though he joked backstage that the hat he wore to conceal the hair loss effects of his treatment gave him “a justifiable excuse for accessorizing,” he has kept his battle quiet. His wife and costar, Jennifer Carpenter, recently announced that the 39-year-old actor has “fully recovered.” In April, as Dexter began shooting its fifth season, which will begin airing in September, Hall shared his thoughts about America’s most lovable sociopath.

Why do you think Dexter as a character has connected with audiences, despite his objectionable actions?

I think audiences relish the opportunity to identify with these central, even glaring, flaws. I think all of us have a shadow that we carry around — whether it’s as formidable as one that inspires you to be a serial killer …. But I think there’s something on a metaphorical level that resonates with people.

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Parade has a newly published interview with some new quotes from Michael C . Hall. You can read it in our press archives. Thanks to Anne for the heads up!

A couple of my favorite excerpts:

As for the folks back home in North Carolina.
“They like the show — at least that’s what my Mom tells me. I think it’s fun for them to see me. Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer. Now what does that say about the culture we live in that we can relate more to a murderous rage?”

He’d like to thank his mom.
“By the time I had decided to pursue acting, my father had passed away. But, my mother, thankfully, was by no means like a stage mom. She just basically said, ‘Okay. You do that.’ I’m sure she was biting her tongue thinking, ‘How are you going to pull it off? I mean the odds are so against you. Anyway, she gave me some good advice growing up like, ‘Showing up is 95% but don’t overstay your welcome,’ ‘Try not to be a burden on anybody,’ and ‘Don’t worry about a thing.’”