Netflix’s latest installment of the Monsters series has sparked a debate online, and now the serial killer’s real voice has been questioned.
If you’ve tuned into Monsters: The Ed Gein Story, you will instantly be struck by the strange tone actor Charlie Hunnam speaks.
Hunnam takes on the role of the Gein, who, despite only being convicted of two murders, became infamous for what he did with corpses.
Using bodies to make a disturbing collection of household items and clothing from human remains.
Gein’s story exposes the darkest aspects of human nature, and his deeply disturbed life has left a lasting impact on pop culture and film.
His case inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and later, characters in The Silence of the Lambs and Ryan Murphy’s own American Horror Story: Asylum.
Gein’s crimes were so grotesque and unsettling that many of his actions have become somewhat of a myth.
Murphy’s anthology series Monsters reimagines real, true crime cases with heightened drama for viewers.
Murphy’s first season, which focused on Jeffrey Dahmer, and the second, centered on the Menendez Brothers, were largely praised for their accurate and compelling portrayals of the killers.
Yet viewers of The Ed Gein Story have been left distracted by the character’s voice.
Taking to social media to discuss the accent, one user says: “What is this voice? Ed Gein did not sound like that.”
“Ed Gein did not talk like this,” a second person writes.”So disappointing they did this.”
“It’s so strange to hear Charlie do his voice like that,” a third responds.
So why was this a creative choice made, and what did Gein really sound like?
Hunnam, who has a North East England voice, told Variety that Gein’s voice needed to be ‘distinctive.’
“But I don’t think any of us really had an idea of what that was,” the actor added.
The killer existed before the age of media, meaning recordings of him were rare.
However, some do exist.
Max Winkler, the director of six of the season’s eight episodes, said the tapes were almost impossible to obtain, stating that their best researchers weren’t successful.
“But Charlie got it, because he’s Charlie and he does crazy sh*t,” Winkler stated.
The director explained the choice for Hunnam to portray Gein with such a distinctive voice was a deliberate creative decision.
Winkler had imagined a combination of Mark Rylance’s tone in his Tony-winning role in Jerusalem and Michael Jackson
Later, during Hunnam’s process of getting into the mind of the killer, he asked Joshua Kunau, the producer of the documentary Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein, to share the audio of a 70-minute interview with Gein.
The tape was recorded the night he was arrested and was not legally admissible.
Hunnam was able to use them in preparation for the role: “I started to see him through a series of affectations to please his mother.
“That’s where the voice came from.”
Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein‘s director, James Buddy Day, characterized the killer’s voice as ‘meek and mild.’
Despite some fans’ reactions to the Hunnans’ portrayal of Gein, the distinctive voice has left an impact.
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