Charlie Hunnam on Transforming Into Ed Gein for Netflix's 'Monster'
Actor Charlie Hunnam discusses his intense physical and mental preparation for portraying serial killer Ed Gein in the Netflix series 'Monster'. He details the challenges of researching the dark subject matter and the transformative process required for the role.
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The article highlights the extreme lengths actors go to for method acting in true-crime media, which remains a highly popular but controversial genre.
Charlie Hunnam didn’t hesitate to take on the role of serial killer and body snatcher Ed Gein in Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story. That is, until he started researching the horrific crimes that were committed.
“Being confronted with some of those images of the crime scenes, I really started to get afraid of the darkness and what it was going to be like to inhabit that,” Hunnam tells THR .
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