Charlie Hunnam’s most enduring role, , lasted for seven seasons before he was surely weary of inhabiting one character for so long. Still, he made his way back to the small screen in recent years with and will make another return to the wrong side of the law (with a non-violent twist) in . In contrast, the series that shall arrive on the Hunnam roster will be incredibly violent.
Ryan Murphy and Netflix’s anthology show, which began with Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer and followed up last month with Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez as the Menendez Brothers, will focus on a different murderer for a third season. Hunnam will step into those bloody shoes and (eek) perhaps into a “skin suit,” too. With that gore factor to come acknowledged, let’s talk about what Hunnam will do that will become the subject of countless viewers’ nightmares.
Plot Hunnam has been tapped to portray Wisconsin-born killer Ed Gein ^^^, also known by the Plainfield Ghoul and Butcher of Plainfield labels. In 1957, the murder of two people but was suspected of killing several others over the course of a decade. He also allegedly desecrated graves, snatched dead bodies, and then there’s the skin-peeling horror that inspired Jonathan Demme’s .
For that matter, Gein also inspired the Leatherface character in Tobe Hooper’s and Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s . Gein, who died in 1984 from lung cancer at a psychiatric hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, was also the subject of a 2023 MGM.