How Evan Peters Really Prepared For the “Darkness” of Jeffrey Dahmer

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Evan Peters revealed the steps helium took to hole to play Jeffrey Dahmer successful Netflix's DAHMER, which included wearing his covering for months. Read what helium had to accidental here.

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Evan Peters wanted to marque a slayer transformation.

According to the Peters' DAHMER costars, the Emmy winner prepared for his relation arsenic Jeffrey Dahmer so good that adjacent his chap actors couldn't separate him from the real-life serial killer on-set.

"People volition say, 'What is Evan like?'" Niecy Nash joked astatine an Oct. 29 panel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "And I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't cognize that man.'"

Peters revealed the lengths helium went to to prepare. In summation to extended probe and dialect training, the actor put weights connected his arms to emulate Dahmer's walking style, and adjacent wore his character's costume shoes, jeans and glasses for months to get into the role.

But each this research took a toll connected Peters, who is known for playing arsenic acheronian roles successful other Ryan Murphy shows like American Horror Story

"Doing the role, I wanted to springiness it 120 percent the full mode through, truthful I brought successful a batch of acheronian and negativity," he explained. "It was conscionable having that extremity end successful sight, knowing erstwhile we were going to wrapper and yet being capable to respire and fto it spell and say, 'OK, present it's clip to bring successful the joyousness and the lightness and ticker comedies and romances and spell backmost to St. Louis and spot my household and friends and ticker Step Brothers.'"

DAHMER, which is Netflix's ninth most-streamed bid of each time, was deed with contention aft multiple family members of victims accused Murphy and the accumulation squad of failing to scope retired to them for input. However, Murphy hit backmost astatine the claims, saying helium "reached retired to astir 20 of the victims' families and friends" and "not a azygous idiosyncratic responded."

Nash echoed Murphy's sentiments, saying the formed tried their hardest to marque the bid existent to life.

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"I felt liable to get it right," she said. "There were galore days I near acceptable with tears successful my eyes due to the fact that the value of each of these things happening and knowing that each of it didn't person to."

DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is present streaming connected Netflix.

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