During the four months of preparation and filming, Peters wore lead weights around his hands and on the soles of his shoes
Although the Evan Peters and Ryan Murphy have worked together for years, Peters was “horrified” when he was offered the lead role in the TV series “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” of Netflix.
“I was really going back and forth about whether I should do it or not. I knew it was going to be incredibly dark and an incredible challenge,” Peters said during a panel discussion featuring show writer Ryan Murphy and co-stars Neesi Nash and Richard Jenkins. When he was sent the scripts, he watched Dahmer’s 1994 interview with “Dateline” to “dive into the psychology of this extreme side of human behavior.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVHHs-xllqo
During the four months of preparation and filming, Murphy noted that Peters wore lead weights around his hands and on the soles of his shoes to reduce Dahmer’s physicality and “basically stayed in that character, as hard as it was.” if it was, for months,” said the show’s writer.
“He has a very straight back. He doesn’t move his arms when he walks, so I put weights on my arms to see what that felt like. I wore the character’s chunky shoes, his jeans, his glasses, I had a cigarette in my hand at all times,” Evans explained. “I wanted all these things, these external things, to be second nature when we were shooting, so I watched a lot of footage and also worked with a dialect coach to get his voice. The way he spoke was very distinct and had a dialect. So I went and created a 45 minute audio, which was very helpful. I listened to it every day, hoping to learn his speech patterns. It was an exhaustive search, trying to find private moments, moments that he wasn’t consciously showing, so I could see how he behaved before the interviews and during his time in prison.”
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