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Charlie Hunnam probably wouldn’t be the first person you think of when you see a photo of the Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein.

His gruesome crimes – laid out in a sobering bulletproof list over on Wikipedia – inspired fictional killers like Norman Bates, Leatherface and now the latest entry into Ryan Murphy’s Monster series.

And while Hunnam might not be top of mind as an Ed Gein dead ringer, with the help of 30 pounds weight loss, make-up and a frighteningly blank dissociative gaze, it’s a performance that’s hard to fault.

That by no means meant it came easy. The 45-year-old is upfront in telling Metro it seemed an ‘impossibly bleak’ undertaking, requiring more of him tha

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