Charlie Hunnam has defended the controversial new season of Monster: The Ed Gein Story, arguing the Netflix sequence doesn’t sensationalise or glorify the crimes of its topic.
The 45-year-old actor, finest recognized for Sons of Anarchy, performs the infamous assassin and grave robber within the newest instalment of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix true-crime anthology – a darkish reimagining that explores how Gein’s traumatic previous and fractured psyche led to a string of grisly crimes in Fifties rural America.
He has now hit out at criticism it glamourises or sensationalises its supply materials, telling The Hollywood Reporter following backlash from viewers and critics over the present’s graphic depiction of Gein’s life and murders: “I by no means felt like we had been sensationalizing it. I by no means felt on set that we did something gratuitous or for shock impression. It was all as a way to attempt to inform this story as truthfully as we might.”
The present explores the story of Wisconsin farmer Gein, who grew to become notorious within the Fifties for grave robbing and creating macabre objects from human stays.
Like the 2 previous instalments in Ryan Murphy’s Monster franchise, the newest season has confronted accusations of exploiting true crime tales for leisure worth.
Critics have pointed to what they described because the “glamorisation” of Gein’s crimes and questioned whether or not the present respects the real-life victims and their households.
Charlie additionally mirrored on the broader query of who the “monster” within the story really is.
He stated: “Is it Ed Gein who was abused and left in isolation and affected by undiagnosed psychological sickness and went and that manifested in some fairly horrendous methods?
“Or was the monster the legion of filmmakers that took inspiration from his life and sensationalised it to make leisure and darken the American psyche within the course of?”
He continued: “Is Ed Gein the monster of this present, or is Hitchcock the monster of the present? Or are we the monster of the present as a result of we’re watching it?”
Ryan Murphy serves as creator and govt producer of the Monster sequence, which beforehand centered on Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy.
The primary instalment, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, grew to become one among Netflix’s most-watched reveals of all time upon launch in 2022.
