Charlie Hunnam's prep for Monster: The Ed Gein Story led him to some "crazy s***," including somehow discovering a recording that Netflix's "best researchers couldn't get"

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Monster: The Ed Gein Story hits Netflix just in time for Halloween

Charlie Hunnam in Ed Gein in Monster: The Ed Gein Story
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In order to get the voice of serial killer Ed Gein just right for the third season of Netflix's Monster, Charlie Hunnam went down a dark rabbit hole that led him to a rare recording that even Netflix couldn't find.

"Our best researchers couldn’t get it," director Max Winkler told Variety. "But Charlie got it, because he’s Charlie and he does crazy shit." It's important to known that Gein, like most famous serial killers, has a specfically unsettling voice, with Winkler putting it somewhere between Mark Rylance in the play Jerusalem and Michael Jackson. Because the murders, as well as Gein's subsequent arrest, took place between the 40s and 60s, there isn't much record of his voice – save for a few grainy recordings.

"I started to see him through a series of affectations to please his mother," Hunnam said. "That’s where the voice came from."

Lauren Milici
Lauren Milici
Senior Entertainment Writer

Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ based in New York City. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent's Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.

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