Critics Choice Awards 2026: Charlie Hunnam’s Girlfriend Had This Request About Monster Ed Gein Role
“I took the role and then regretted it,” he admitted. “The scripts weren’t available, so all I had to go upon when I started working were all of the texts that have been written about him. They were just this litany of this sensationalist horror show of all of the things that he did, which were undoubtedly terrible.”
“But there was a human being in there, a mixed-up, mentally ill, abused, isolated man inside there that was driving all of that,” he continued. “So it took a while to get past what he did, to be able to find who he was inside and why he was doing what he was doing.”
Despite his original reservations, the 45-year-old is grateful he took the leap. As he quipped, “Now, we’re standing here and I’m happy that I did.”
For Charlie, entering the psyche of Ed—who was convicted of two murders and suspected of more—was an incredibly delicate maneuver.
