Michael C. Hall talks playing ‘compelling’ gay characters
By Sam Rigby
Michael C. Hall has admitted that he is drawn to playing gay characters because he finds them “compelling”.
The Dexter actor – who is currently starring in Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch – said that he loves “characters who are defined by some sense of conflict or secret keeping”.
Speaking to The Huffington Post, he said: “I feel like I choose roles, and I also feel like roles choose me at times. I think I gravitate toward characters who are defined by some sense of conflict or secret keeping.
“I think in the case of David Fisher [on Six Feet Under], it was about the character’s inherent conflict – something that made him inherently dramatic.
“In case of Hedwig, it was the chance to front a rock band and sing awesome rock-and-roll music. There is something about people, for one reason or the other, who are marginalised by their circumstance that is compelling to me.
“That has manifested itself into me playing a few, or more than a few, characters who are gay.”
Hall will continue leading the cast of Hedwig and the Angry Inch until January 18, before being replaced by John Cameron Mitchell.
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