Charlie Hanam: The actor who stood the audience as the “monster” Ed Gin

The creation of a new season of Ryan Murphy’s successful series, Monster, on Netflix – from exhaustive research to a satisfactory finale – never easy, let alone when it comes to “Pleinfield’s butcher”, the infamous killer and the infamous killer.

There is, however, one thing that makes everything easier: the choice of actors. And to embody Ed Gin, the director had a man in his mind from the beginning: Charlie Hunnam.

Murphy thought Hanam was perfect for the role after seeing a paparazzi photo. “I thought,” Oh, it looks haunted. ” There was something very much … in that day. “

The question, however, was whether the Sons of Anarchy and Crimson Peak actor would be ready for the creepy role of the season. “It was the easiest yes” I think I’ve ever got in my career, “Murphy told Netflix’s Tudum.

Hanam agreed to embody Ed Gin, having virtually … ignorance of danger.

“I knew very little about Ed,” the star said. “I knew that there was a man who was considered the first serial killer, who had been active in the rural Middle Army after World War II – and that he had a somewhat unhealthy relationship with his mother. These were actually everything I knew about him. “

But he must have learned much more about the horrifying crimes and the sick mind of Guin.

For Hanham, to play Ed was a terrible challenge that meant physical transformation – lost more than 15 pounds to capture the flexible physical substance of Guin – as well as emotional.

“The more I learned about him, the more it became clear how long the distance was between who I was in my normal life and who was Ed,” the actor said.

As for the characteristic soft and tall voice of Gin– With which Hanam is stabbed by the audience – the actor explained that he really “got into the” role “of the role (as Ginn wore his victims’ skins) when he realized something very critical: Gin himself was playing a character.

“It was a pretense. It was what Ed believed his mother wanted to be. It was not an authentic voice living in him. It was this persona. ”