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At a Netflix For Your Consideration event on Sunday, Monster: The Ed Gein Story<\/em> star Charlie Hunnam, co-creator Ian Brennan and the show\u2019s creative team took a deep dive into their recently released season<\/a>, which followed the notorious 1950s serial killer.<\/p>\n Season three<\/a> comes after previous iterations centered on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez Brothers, as Ian Brennan \u2014 who created the franchise alongside Ryan Murphy \u2014 noted \u201cthe show is tricky. People are always like, \u2018It\u2019s a serial killer show\u2019 and you\u2019re like, \u2018Kind of, not really.\u2019 Most murders and murderers are not interesting at all, and they\u2019re certainly not interesting enough to spend 10 hours inside their head. Mostly, the challenge of the show is figuring out who we\u2019re going to do, and there\u2019s lots of fits and starts. We\u2019ve done a lot of pilots that go straight into the trash; it\u2019s a lot of guess and check.\u201d<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Gein, however, had been on Murphy\u2019s mind for years and came to the forefront when Dahmer was obsessed with him. The killer<\/a> also served as inspiration for Psycho<\/em> and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/em> and led to a number of copycat attacks after he was known to kill women, wear their skins and dig up graves.<\/p>\n Executive producer and director Max Winkler told the crowd that \u201cwhat I found very interesting was Ed didn\u2019t really get to ever have a say in how he was perceived. His actions spoke loud enough and he died in the hospital. But as the series unfolds, you get to understand where he was at emotionally throughout all of this, which I find the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cIt can be so reduced to just, yeah, he was crazy and he killed a bunch of people and made nipple belts; to actually get into the generational trauma and abuse that he suffered, the mental illness that he suffered, the time to be mentally ill in America, and how later on when he would go into the hospital, how failed he was by the mental health system set up by Nixon, I found really, really compelling and a story worth telling honestly and with compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n Hunnam added that when \u201ccopycat killers became active\u201d after Gein\u2019s string of attacks, \u201cEd had the medical treatments to get him to be in a stabilized place, and he was utterly horrified by the consequence, this idea that he might have inspired these people to go out and do these horrific things.\u201d Hunnam was Murphy\u2019s first choice to play the role and joked that he was \u201ctricked\u201d into it by Winkler, who told him Murphy wanted to meet about a project \u201cabout a pill that you can take that will make you beautiful forever and we\u2019ll shoot it in Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n When he got there, he instead talked with Murphy for two hours about Gein and said yes right away when the mega-producer offered him the part; later when researching the killer, Hunnam admitted he thought, \u201cI\u2019ve really made a mistake here\u201d when reading about the \u201cheinous acts.\u201d He was comforted in Murphy\u2019s vision, though, explaining, \u201cWe were not really interested in what Ed did. We were trying to ask ourselves why he did what he did, and try to find the answer of what turns a human being into a monster.\u201d<\/p>\n Brenner also spoke about some of his takeaways on how the story resonates today, as \u201cthe mixture of mental illness and male isolation equals danger, and it\u2019s just everywhere. We live in a society that\u2019s becoming more and more isolated, rather than less,\u201d and the present-day murderers are also often lonely, mentally ill men. He added, \u201cThis sort of romp through these periods feels very, very present to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At a Netflix For Your Consideration event on Sunday, Monster: The Ed Gein Story star Charlie Hunnam, co-creator Ian Brennan and the show\u2019s creative team took a deep dive into their recently released season, which followed the notorious 1950s serial killer. 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