When we speak to Charlie Hunnam , thankfully, he has returned to his usual handsome self after six months in torment, during which he dropped 30 lbs to portray cross-dressing, grave-robbing serial killer Ed Gein. Gein, who went on a killing spree near his home town in Wisconsin in the 1950s, was so twisted he would even inspire Hitchcock's Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs, having used human flesh to build himself female "body suits," lampshades and couches. Certainly, there were moments of regret for Charlie, 45, having initially enthusiastically agreed to play a man with such a macabre legacy in Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story.

"Once I said yes to this, I thought I'd made a horrible mistake," admits the British actor, adding how he panicked a

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