Charlie Hunnam will star in “Monster” Season 3 at Netflix as infamous serial killer Ed Gein.
Series co-creator Ryan Murphy made the announcement onstage throughout a promotional occasion in Los Angeles for “Monster” Season 2, which focuses on the Menendez brothers and the homicide of their mother and father. The first season of the anthology sequence centered on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Gein, who additionally hailed from Wisconsin like Dahmer, grew to become notorious in the Nineteen Fifties when authorities found that he not solely had killed a number of folks, however had dug up graves from a cemetery close to his house and normal all method of home items and clothes from human stays. Gein’s case served as an inspiration for a number of main popular culture characters afterward, together with Norman Bates in “Psycho” and Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs.”
This marks the newest newly introduced TV position for Hunnam. It was reported in May that he's set to star in the upcoming sequence “Criminal” at Amazon. He is finest recognized for starring in the favored FX outlaw biker drama “Sons of Anarchy,” on which he performed Jackson “Jax” Teller for seven seasons. He lately starred in the Apple sequence adaptation of the ebook “Shantaram.” Hunnam’s different TV credit embrace “Undeclared” and “Queer as Folk,” whereas his movie credit embrace “Pacific Rim,” “The Gentlemen,” “True History of the Kelly Gang,” (*3*) and “The Lost City of Z.”
He is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, CAA, and Sloan Offer.
“Monster” initially debuted on Netflix in 2022. The first season acquired widespread acclaim, significantly for the performances of Evan Peters as Dahmer and Niecey Nash as Glenda Cleveland. Peters received a Golden Globe for the present, whereas Nash received an Emmy. It presently ranks as the third most-watched present in Netflix historical past.
Season 2 is about to debut Thursday, Sept. 19. Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch star as Lyle and Erik Menendez, whereas Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny play their mother and father. Murphy and Ian Brennan co-created the sequence and govt produce together with Bardem, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, David McMillan, Louise Shore and Carl Franklin. Episodic administrators embrace Brennan, Franklin, Max Winkler, Paris Barclay and Michael Uppendahl, whereas writers embrace Murphy, Brennan, David McMillan, Todd Kubrak and Reilly Smith.
