Internet users took to social media to comment on Charlie Hunnam’s accent created for the series “Monster: The Ed Gein Story.” The British actor explained that this project required extra dedication.
In an interview with Variety, Charlie Hunnam said the voice had to be “very specific.” “But I think none of us had a clear idea of what it should sound like,” the actor admitted.
In the series, Hunnam portrays Ed Gein, a serial killer who murdered two people in the 1950s and robbed numerous graves to make furniture and clothing from the skin and bones of his victims.
He was arrested in 1957 and spent the rest of his life in a psychiatric institution, which limited the availability of recordings of his voice and made the actor’s research more difficult.
“Our best researchers couldn’t [find a tape of Gein’s voice], but Charlie did, because he’s Charlie and does some crazy stuff,” said Max Winkler, director of six of the eight episodes of the series.
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Charlie Hunnam reached out to the producer of the documentary “Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein” to gain access to a 70-minute interview with Gein that had never been released, as it was not legally admissible.
“I started to see him through a series of mannerisms meant to please his mother… that’s where the voice came from,” explained the “Sons of Anarchy” star.
The accent became a topic of debate just hours after the series’ release.
“I’m giving the new season of Monster a chance, and no offense, but does anyone else think Charlie Hunnam’s Ed Gein sounds like a depressed Kermit?” said one user on X, formerly Twitter.
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