Monster star Charlie Hunnam "never felt like we were sensationalizing" Ed Gein, says the Netflix series is "a very sincere exploration of the human condition" where we should be asking who the real monsters are

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Charlie Hunnam defends Monster: The Ed Gein Story from accusations of sensationalizing the harrowing tale

Charlie Hunnam in Ed Gein in Monster: The Ed Gein Story
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Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story has come under fire for its wholly fictionalized portrayal of certain events and the twisting of his actual life story to reflect aspects of later stories that were loosely inspired by his crimes. However, star Charlie Hunnam, who plays Gein in the series, says he "never felt like we were sensationalizing" the tale of Gein's life.

"I never felt like we were sensationalizing it. I never felt on set that we did anything gratuitous or for shock impact. It was all in order to try to tell this story as honestly as we could," Hunnam tells EW. "If people are compelled to talk about it and think about it, hopefully they'll actually be compelled to watch the show. What I would hope and feel really confident in is that it was a very sincere exploration of the human condition and why this boy did what he did."

George Marston
George Marston
Entertainment Writer

I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011, and now I'm the Entertainment Writer at GamesRadar+. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitarist of many heavy riffs. (They/Them)

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