Charlie Hunnam‘s commitment to playing Ed Gein led to him visiting the infamous murderer’s grave after filming Monster.

“[After we wrapped, my girlfriend, Morgana McNelis, said] ‘Take some time after you finish. Because when you come home, you should be ready to see me,'” Hunnam, 45, recalled on the Today show before the show’s season 3 premiere on Friday, October 3. “I’d been shooting in Chicago, I decided to stay for a week and sort of decompress so I was ready to see her when I got home. And it was about an 8-hour drive up to Wisconsin from where I was to where Ed grew up and where he’s buried.”

For Hunnam, it was a “good conclusion” to the role “to go visit his grave,” which has been unmarked since 2000 after the infamous killer’s headstone was stolen and the burial site was repeated

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