She tells him she is proud of him for how he ‘changed the world’ in inspiring numerous pop culture serial killers, and points to his many fans as people who think he is the ‘bees knees’.
One of the final scenes in the show is Ed Gein being reunited with his mother (Netflix)
One of the final scenes in the show is Ed Gein being reunited with his mother (Netflix)
The sequence – which is one of many moments where the series jumps between Gein’s life, his hallucinations and the inspiration he had on filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock – is also one which baffled viewers.
“They always add that crazy creepy dance scene to every Ed Gein movie,” wrote one view on X, while another person branded the scene one of many ‘unwatchable’ moments in the show, writing: “Wtf was that ending why was there a whole dance sequence with psych ward people.”
However series star Charlie Hunnam has since offered a different perspective on the moment in an exclusive interview with LADbible, saying the moment underscores the importance of Gein’s relationship with his mother.
“I think that a lot of what this show is about, and a lot of who Ed was, was about his relationship with his mum,” he explained
“Historically, what was accurate is that she was really his only friend and the only person he ever had any sort of significant relationship with his whole life.
Ed Gein is portrayed quite sympathetically in the show (Netflix)
Ed Gein is portrayed quite sympathetically in the show (Netflix)
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“I think his whole life was spent trying to get the love and acceptance from her that he always so deeply craved, and that he never really got that.”
Hunnam went on to say: “So that felt like to us, the moment of death and being reunited with the people that you love so much, if hopefully, that is what happens after death, and that he was able to go back and be with his mum, which is the only thing he ever wanted in his life.”
Hunnam has spoken previously to LADbible about criticism suggesting he is ‘too empathetic’ towards Gein, saying that it was a ‘deep responsibility’ to play someone who did such awful things, but pointing to Gein’s ‘untreated mental health disorders’.
Additional words by Michael Slavin.
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Topics: Charlie Hunnam, Netflix, True Crime, TV and Film, TV
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Bizarre Ed Gein accent perfected by Charlie Hunnam after taking extreme lengths for Netflix show
Updated 16:14 6 Oct 2025 GMT+1Published 13:34 3 Oct 2025 GMT+1
Bizarre Ed Gein accent perfected by Charlie Hunnam after taking extreme lengths for Netflix show
Charlie Hunnam’s Ed Gein accent in the new season of Netflix’s Monster is bizarre
The newest season of Monster has finally been released on Netflix and focuses on Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, known by many as the ‘Butcher of Plainfield’.
Ed Gein killed two people in the 1950s, robbed numerous graves to make furniture and clothing from their skin and bones, and is thought to have killed even more.
The newest season follows on from Monster seasons on Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez Brothers, co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
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Hunnam’s bizarre portrayal as Ed Gein in the new Netflix season sees him take on the role of a killer who many believe had an intense psychosexual fixation on his own mother.
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His accent, however, is a particularly bizarre part of this, though, with many who watch probably surprised by the decisions Hunnam makes.
Hunnam himself is not a stranger to bold accent choices in film, having famously played a ‘cockney’ in Green Street and attempted a Belfast accent in Rebel Moon, both to severe ridicule.
His accent in Monster: The Ed Gein Story, however, saw him go to extreme lengths.
How did Charlie Hunnam come up with his accent for Ed Gein?
The Pacific Rim star’s accent has already been a point of contention just hours after the show’s release, with one fan posting on X: “I am giving the new season of Monster a try and, no hate, but anyone else think Charlie Hunnam’s Ed Gein sounds like a depressed Kermit the Frog?”
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Despite the criticism, Hunnam’s accent is actually quite closely based on Ed Gein’s real voice.
In a recent interview with Variety, Hunnam and the show’s creatives explained just how far the Geordie actor had gone to get the accent for Ed Gein right.
He said: “The voice needed to be really specific… but I don’t think any of us really had an idea of what that was.”
Hunnam was able to find a recording of Ed Gein that Netflix’s researchers couldn’t (Netflix)
Hunnam was able to find a recording of Ed Gein that Netflix’s researchers couldn’t (Netflix)
Considering that Gein was arrested in 1957 and spent the rest of his life in a mental facility, very few recordings of him exist.
That being said, Max Winkler, director of six of the eight episodes, revealed the lengths Hunnam went to get his hands on one.
He said: “Our best researchers couldn’t get [a tape of Gein’s voice] but Charlie got it, because he’s Charlie and he does crazy sh*t.”
Hunnam had reached out to the producer of a documentary, Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein, for access to a 70-minute interview with Gein that had never seen the light of day, as it was not legally admissible.
He said after listening to the recording: “I started to see him through a series of affectations to please his mother… that’s where the voice came from.”
Hunnam went to even more extreme lengths to decompress from playing Ed Gein
Charlie Hunnam spoke about playing Ed Gein (TODAY Show)
Charlie Hunnam spoke about playing Ed Gein (TODAY Show)
