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“I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being.”

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Michael C. Hall

Michael C. Hall, born on February 1, 1971, is an accomplished American actor. He gained widespread acclaim for his role as Don Draper in the television series 'Mad Men', for which he won multiple awards. He also received an Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of Edgar Hoover in the miniseries 'American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson'. more

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