{"id":18221,"date":"2025-09-15T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/18221\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:02:08","slug":"monster-the-ed-gein-story-trailer-reveals-addison-raes-casting-charlie-hunnams-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/18221\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Trailer Reveals Addison Rae’s Casting, Charlie Hunnam’s Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psycho.\u00a0The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All three of these groundbreaking films have drawn inspiration from the real story of Ed Gein, the notorious serial killer and grave robber who stalked the frozen fields of rural Wisconsin in the 1950s. His gruesome crimes have haunted Hollywood for decades. And now\u00a0Monster: The Ed Gein Story<\/a> \u2014 the latest season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan\u2019s Emmy-nominated anthology series \u2014 will peel back the curtain on one of history\u2019s most notorious ghouls, played by\u00a0Sons of Anarchy\u2019s Charlie Hunnam<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The full trailer, which debuts above, shows that\u00a0Monster: The Ed Gein Story is not only interested in whether monsters are born or created<\/a> \u2014 it also explores why we\u2019re drawn to these stories, despite the nightmares they cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re the one who can\u2019t look away,\u201d says Hunnam\u2019s Ed Gein, breaking the fourth wall in the final moments of the trailer. This is\u00a0after the audience has been given a harrowing preview of some of the horrific things Gein did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Premiering Oct. 3,\u00a0Monster: The Ed Gein Story chronicles how isolation, psychosis, and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Augusta (Laurie Metcalf), turned Gein into someone capable of murder \u2014 and turning his victims\u2019 corpses into masks and suits. Because of Gein\u2019s impact on Hollywood, Murphy and Brennan thought he was the right subject to follow\u00a0Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we talked about how influential he was and how his crimes, you can find threads of them through pop culture and through horror films \u2014 I think that\u2019s when we knew we had a show,\u201d says Brennan, who wrote every episode. \u201cIt\u2019s really mind-blowing how influential one strange man in the middle of Wisconsin in a barn can be. That\u2019s just the world we live in, that he lit this fuse that just continued popping off and set in motion this continuous topping of really intense, bizarre, strange imagery. I can\u2019t think of another person who is really that influential to a genre of television and film.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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To become Gein, Hunnam read and watched everything he could on his subject and underwent a significant physical transformation. \u201cI lost almost 30 pounds just to get a more malnourished, light frame. Ed was incredibly lithe. And so that was a big part of the physicality,\u201d says Hunnam. \u201cI spent a lot of time thinking about where his energy was, that he\u2019s not particularly confident or, like, front-foot type of energy \u2026 How to not take up a lot of space, not to be sort of front and center and too confident in my physicality was really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunnam\u2019s portrayal, especially his high-pitched voice, was also informed by Gein\u2019s unhealthy relationship with his mother (see: how he lies beside her grave in one of the photos), who tells him she wanted a daughter. \u201cIt was what Ed thought that his mother wanted him to be. As she was really his only human contact in the world, he developed this thing to try and make her love him,\u201d Hunnam says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In addition to Hunnam and Metcalf,\u00a0Monster: The Ed Gein Story stars Suzanna Son as Ed\u2019s only friend, Adeline, and Tom Hollander as\u00a0Psycho director Alfred Hitchcock, both of whom you can spot in the new photos. The trailer also reveals that Addison Rae will appear as Evelyn, a babysitter who was allegedly one of Gein\u2019s victims. Rae was drawn to the project because of the talent in front of and behind the camera.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m such a big fan of Charlie and he\u2019s so amazing. And Laurie and Suzanna \u2014 I got to work with so many people that I\u2019ve loved their work,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve never worked on a production that felt so intentional in every piece. And I think that is really inspiring to be around.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Prepare to enter Ed Gein\u2019s house of horrors when all eight episodes of Monster: The Ed Gein Story premiere Oct. 3 on Netflix.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Psycho.\u00a0The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.\u00a0The Silence of the Lambs.\u00a0 All three of these groundbreaking films have drawn inspiration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-18221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}