When ‘Dexter’ star Michael C. Hall was diagnosed with a potentially deadly form of cancer last year, he thought his worst nightmare might be coming true.
The actor says he had always wondered whether he’d live to be 39, the age at which his father died of prostate cancer when he was just a little boy. Hall was 38 when he found out he had Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“I think I’ve been preoccupied since I was 11, and my father died, with the idea of the age 39: Would I live that long? What would that be like?” Hall told The New York Times. “To discover that I had the Hodgkin’s was alarming, but at the same time I felt kind of bemused, like: Wow. Huh. How interesting.”
But his 39th birthday came and went in February, with Hall’s cancer in remission. The actor, who plays a sympathetic serial killer on the hit Showtime series, had announced the previous month that he was undergoing chemotherapy.
To discover he’d developed a disease that could be fatal shortly before his 39th birthday while he was starring in a show about death seemed like a doubly uncanny coincidence.
Hall was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma while he was in the midst of filming the fourth season of ‘Dexter.’ He says he kept his illness a secret on the set. Shortly after he disclosed that he had cancer, he accepted a best actor Golden Globe wearing a knitted cap, since the chemo had left him bald. Many in the audience were moved to tears.
The effects of the treatment have now completely worn off. Hall says he feels newly energized.
But the actor doesn’t think it’s happenstance that the characters he’s played on TV have a tendency toward repression — first the closed-off funeral director David Fisher on ‘Six Feet Under’ and now the reserved, guarded Dexter Morgan on ‘Dexter.’
Hall speculates that it’s because he, too, is repressed.
“Maybe it has to do with not knowing quite what to do with the storm of feelings that accompanied my father’s death. Maybe it’s a learned behavior,” he told the Times. “Now I’m taking it to the bank.”
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“Nick, come on, you know you look at porn. Tonight when me and my husband look at porn, I already know it’s gonna be a humdinger!”
– Mariah Carey, pretending to be “Debbie from Long Island,” prank calling husband Nick Cannon’s radio show, Rollin’ With Nick Cannon on 92.3 NOW FM
“I might just be way too boring to ever be a really great actress.”
– Jessica Biel, to “Vogue”
“I want to make out with the fat guy from The Hangover…He’s amazing. I like big, fat guys with beards that wear thick glasses.”
– Ke$ha, revealing her secret crush on Zach Galifianakis to The Morning Mash Up on SIRIUS XM Radio
“I think it’s just the way I grew up, like my grandma did it, my mom did it. It’s like a very natural thing to put the jellies in your purse. I’ll bring Ziploc bags on a trip and fill it with the hotel shampoos. I haven’t paid for soap in three years so you tell me who’s doing it right.”
– Kristen Bell, revealing her family’s frugal traditions, on “Lopez Tonight”
“I gave her an iPod. And when the naughty scenes came on, I pressed ‘play’ and covered her eyes.”
– Ryan Gosling, explaining how his mom watched his new movie “Blue Valentine” at the Sundance Film Festival, to MTV
“This is not a Lifetime movie, sweetheart.”
– “American Idol” guest judge Katy Perry, clashing with fellow judge Kara Dioguardi during the show’s L.A. tryouts
“I decided to get a tattoo because it was the most shocking thing I could think of doing. Now I’m utterly disgusted and shocked because it’s become completely mainstream, which is unacceptable to me.”
– Helen Mirren, on “Good Morning America”
“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.”
– “Dexter” star Michael C. Hall, on his family being okay with him playing a serial killer, to “Parade” magazine
“You can’t be Mick and Keith. You can’t be the one on drugs and the one in control.”
– Courtney Love, equating her failed solo music effort to the Rolling Stones, to “Dazed and Confused” magazine
“That’s how I got my wife. I literally stalked her for weeks until she said yes. They say it’s not stalking if she says yes.”
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Dexter star Michael C. Hall has reveled that he has been battling with cancer after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The actor released a statement through his spokesman, Craig Bankey, saying that he has been battling the cancer but he is almost finished with his treatment.
The statement said “I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition, and I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care.”
Michael C. Hall is nominated for Best Dramatic actor for his role in Dexter, which is nomated for Best Drama, at the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is still planning on attending both shows, the Globes this Sunday and the SAG’s the following Saturday.
source: ‘Dexter’ star Michael C. Hall diagnosed with cancer; disease is in remission [Website]
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