NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (UPI) — Jack Alcott says his Dexter: Resurrection character Harrison is still grappling with the truth that he is a serial killer’s son even after he shoots him, leaves him for dead and takes off in the hopes of reinventing himself.
“We find Harrison just on the run, literally and figuratively,” Alcott, 29, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. “He fled the scene of the crime and is doing everything he can to try to start a new life, to try to leave all of the trauma — there’s a lot of it — behind him.”
Released on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, Resurrection picks up 10 weeks after the events of 2021’s Dexter: New Blood, which itself was a sequel to the iconic series, Dexter, which ran 2006 through 2013.
“In that last scene in New Blood, the line that sort of still rings really, really true to me… is Harrison saying to his father: ‘Look, I don’t want to be right. I just want to be normal.’ And this is his whole-hearted effort at doing that for himself,” Alcott said.
“But, as most people would guess, you can’t just make all of that disappear. That’s too much,” he added. “It’s even everything that he had going BEFORE the events of New Blood. It’s a lot. I can shape a person and then he kills his dad. So, he’s trying so hard to run from it, but that’s just going to catch you at some point. And I think it’s sooner rather than later.”
Harrison is settling in to his new job as a bellhop at a posh Manhattan hotel when Dexter (Michael C. Hall), who is dedicated to only killing bad people, awakens from his coma and wants to reconcile with his son.
Along for the ride is Harry (James Remar), Dexter’s long-deceased, former homicide detective father who has served as the vigilante’s conscience since the franchise began, but whom did not appear as the reasonable voice in Dexter’s head in New Blood because Dexter was so haunted by the death of his sister Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) there was no room for his calming presence.
“I don’t think that fatherhood ever expires. I’m not going to say the same thing to a 50-year-old Dexter that I would say to a 14-year-old Dexter unless, of course, it’s absolutely necessary,” said Remar, 72.
“Dexter is still with Harry emotionally,” Remar added. “In some instances, he’s still very young, and, yet, he’s his own man. It comes to light that some of the old lessons are the best lessons. We don’t necessarily need a new version of them. They just perhaps need to be expressed in a different way.”
Harry is also very protective of Harrison and tries to counsel Dexter on how to parent him under these remarkably challenging circumstances.
“That’s my grandson. I get a little emotional there,” Remar said.
“Harry was fiercely protective of young Dexter who, in his own way, is extraordinarily vulnerable. Without Harry, Dexter would have ended up in an institution, chained to a wall and that would have been it,” he added. “Arguably, the same thing could happen to his grandson and he can impart to Dexter in a quiet manner what Dexter has to, hopefully, do to help his own son.”
Remar said playing the figment of the imagination of a fictional character is much more rewarding than one might expect.
“It’s very humbling. I would hate to be an actor that said the same thing, the same way every time, with the same feeling. I would just hate that. I’d rather work at a bank and there’s nothing wrong with working at banks. It’s just not tailored to my personality,” he explained.
“Human beings evolve. I experience the sunrise differently today than I did when I was a teenager and I feel the same way about my characters,” he added. “My characters are representative of human beings, so they’re not going to be static. They’re not going to be the same and I just feel very fortunate that I’ve managed to somehow keep up with that.”
Dexter: Resurrection has been renewed for a second season.
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