This summer time, actor Michael C. Corridor will have a good time an odd – however important – anniversary. “In August, it will likely be 20 years since we shot the pilot,” he says. He’s speaking about Dexter in fact – the Emmy-winning serial killer drama wherein he stars. Eight seasons, adopted by a number of spin-offs, has stored him very busy these previous twenty years. “It’s so past something any of us anticipated.”
It’s a Saturday on the finish of Might when NME speaks to Corridor over Zoom. He’s at the moment in Mexico Metropolis, prepping for an look on a panel in entrance of a room stuffed with Dexter devotees at CCXP Mexico 2025, alongside co-star David Zayas, showrunner Clyde Phillips and government producer/author Scott Reynolds. Little question, the main query on everybody’s lips is how precisely is Dexter Morgan again from the useless?
The 2021 10-episode mini-series Dexter: New Blood completed with Dexter’s son Harrison (Jack Alcott) capturing him within the chest in a wintry forest. As Phillips instructed leisure website Deadline on the time of New Blood, “I’ve three phrases for you: Dexter is useless. I wouldn’t try this to the viewers. It will be dishonest. Right here, there is no such thing as a query that that is the finale of Dexter. Dexter is useless.” However then that is Hollywood, and issues change.
Was the 54-year-old Corridor satisfied it was throughout on the time of capturing New Blood? “I believed that was it,” he admits, freely, “however there had been some – considerably in jest – conversations I’d had casually about, if nothing else, the popularity that he didn’t get shot within the head, and it was very chilly on that forest ground, so it remained a distant chance. However I didn’t suppose that he would [actually] get revived.”
When Corridor spoke to sequence director Marcos Siega, the thought of Dexter returning gained momentum. “I discovered myself more and more compelled by the notion that the tip of the New Blood sequence may characterize some threshold he may cross that will maybe lead him again to one thing he’s in all probability been eager for since midway by the season correct – a return to a extra unencumbered relationship to his code [that only ensures he kills deserving cases] and who he really is. And perhaps there was some kind of burden that he’d been carrying for a while that he could possibly be launched from.”
In fact, followers have been prepped for the character’s revival by 2024’s Dexter: Authentic Sin, a 10-episode prequel that flashed again to Dexter’s early years when he joins the Miami Metro Police Division as a forensic technician shortly after he succumbs to his compulsion to behave as a vigilante serial killer. Starring Patrick Gibson because the younger Dexter, Corridor acts because the narrator, with the present framed by the instant moments after his capturing, as he’s rushed to a hospital to be revived, or ‘resurrected’ because it’s now being termed.
Given the father-son storyline on the coronary heart of the brand new present, it may simply as simply be dubbed Dexter: Redemption. “The phrase redemption is an excellent one,” says Corridor. “[Dexter] craves a way of redemption, a way that he can’t undo the previous and the collateral injury that his indulgence in human relationships has resulted in. However he does have a want to, in his twisted manner, make issues proper. And sure, the connection along with his son is a part of that. He craves contact along with his son… and he’s daunted by the prospect of rejection, that his son would favor his father keep useless, and that he doesn’t need him, doesn’t want him.”
New metropolis, new secrets and techniques 🗽 Michael C. Corridor is again in #DexterResurrection July 11 on #ParamountPlus with SHOWTIME 🩸 pic.twitter.com/6eczEjBTVn
— Dexter (@SHO_Dexter) Might 31, 2025
Whereas New Blood was set within the fictional city of Iron Lake, New York, Resurrection strikes the story onto the Massive Apple, with Dexter trailing his son within the hope of reconnecting with him. “In fact, he nonetheless is who he’s, and he’s at all times been a little bit of a magnet for darkness or unsafe characters,” says Corridor, “and New York reveals itself to be a extremely appropriate place to come across that and an acceptable place to cover in plain sight.”
The central plot of Resurrection sees Recreation Of Thrones star Peter Dinklage forged as Leon Prater, a billionaire enterprise capitalist who, as Corridor explains, “has a shadow fetish for killers”. A lot so, he’s determined to collect all of them collectively for a gathering of some very sick minds. With these killers performed by such esteemed performers as Neil Patrick Harris, Krysten Ritter and David Dastmalchian – an actual nod to only how revered the present has change into within the appearing group – this “looks as if an ideal manner for Dexter to journey right into a smörgåsbord of victims”, says Corridor.
Nothing brings folks collectively like a shared curiosity 🔪 Meet the serial killers of #DexterResurrection – premiering July 11 on #ParamountPlus with SHOWTIME 🩸 pic.twitter.com/0mEd84FlIU
— Dexter (@SHO_Dexter) June 2, 2025
Much more spectacular is the casting of Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman, who performs Charley, Prater’s Head of Safety. “All of us had been pinching ourselves. She’s an icon,” says Corridor, who admits to slightly fanboying. “My first scene with Uma was in a automobile that she was driving. She was sporting sun shades, is armed and is giving nothing away. It was a problem simply to remind myself that my main relationship was with the character she was taking part in, and never the truth that I used to be sitting in a automobile with Uma Thurman.”
The primary episode of Dexter: Resurrection additionally options some selection soundtrack cuts, together with Speaking Heads and Nick Cave. “The entire needle drop approach, it’s not one thing that we did early on, and it may remodel a sequence,” admits Corridor. Does he have a favorite? “There’s a Black Sabbath minimize on the high of [episode] two. That’s fairly cool,” he says, holding the precise monitor a secret for now. And, no, utilizing Speaking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’ was by no means on the desk. “Bit too on the nostril!” he grins.
So how totally different is the Dexter we meet in Resurrection from the one seen in these early episodes twenty years in the past? “He’s found and developed an urge for food for his personal humanity that didn’t exist after we first met him,” replies Corridor. “However there’s a return to type by way of his relationship to the code, by way of his respect for the knowledge of it, and his being seduced into taking part in quick and free with these guidelines is gone. He’s able to get again to fundamentals, in a manner.”
Nominated for six Emmys for his work on Dexter, Corridor claims he’s not the very best particular person to unpack the enduring reputation of the present however presents an eloquent clarification. “Folks relish the prospect to spend time with somebody who, in his nook of the world, is taking management. And there’s one thing in regards to the character and the way in which he’s offered – the voiceover factor, the subjective manner wherein the story is performed – that brings an viewers alongside for his journey and perhaps implicates them to a level. There’s one thing about it that hooks folks in a magic manner.”
So what subsequent? Extra magic? Clyde Phillips has already referred to as Resurrection “a singular launching pad” for additional adventures of the most well-liked serial killer since Hannibal Lecter. Not like New Blood and Authentic Sin, which had been each one-off sequence, Resurrection appears set to proceed. “I don’t suppose we launched into this season with the plan to resolve issues, or tie something up in a bow,” says Corridor. “There’ll probably be extra past this.” The Resurrection is really underway.
‘Dexter: Resurrection’ premieres on Paramount + from July 11
