{"id":1718294,"date":"2022-10-31T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718294"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:18:57","slug":"like-bone-to-marrow-actor-stayed-in-character-for-jeffrey-dahmer-role-for-months-he-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-bone-to-marrow-actor-stayed-in-character-for-jeffrey-dahmer-role-for-months-he-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like Bone To Marrow\u2019: Actor Stayed In Character For Jeffrey Dahmer Role For Months, He Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flike-bone-to-marrow-actor-stayed-in-character-for-jeffrey-dahmer-role-for-months-he-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718294&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Evan Peters, the actor who played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/serial-killer\">serial killer<\/a> Jeffrey Dahmer in the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> drama series, said he took great pains to stay in character for months in preparation for the role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/entertainment\">Dahmer: Monster<\/a>\u201d was a huge success for the streaming platform, quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/dahmer-netflix-second-most-watched-series\">becoming<\/a> the second-most streamed show of all time by mid-October. Part of that hype comes from Peters\u2019 performance as the notorious killer. While the 35-year-old said he was \u201cterrified\u201d to play Dahmer, he was also committed to making the role as realistic as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really went back and forth on whether I should do it or not. I knew it was going to be incredibly dark and an incredible challenge,\u201d Peters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/actor-evan-peters-stayed-character-jeffrey-dahmer-months-prepare-role\">said<\/a> during a panel over the weekend. He mentioned watching a 1994 Dateline interview with the real Dahmer so he could \u201cdive into the psychology of that extreme side of human behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This included adopting Dahmer\u2019s speech pattern and mannerisms to the extent he could. Filmmaker Ryan Murphy confirmed that Evans \u201cbasically stayed in this character, as difficult as it was, for months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wore the character shoes with lifts in them, his jeans, his glasses, I had a cigarette in my hand at all times,\u201d Peters said. \u201cI wanted all this stuff, these external things, to be second nature when we were shooting, so I watched a lot of footage and I also worked with a dialect coach to get down his voice. The way that he spoke, it was very distinct and he had a dialect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peters also had a unique way of adopting the real Dahmer\u2019s body posture. He said the convicted killer \u201chas a very straight back. He doesn\u2019t move his arms when he walks, so I put weights on my arms to see what that felt like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I also went off and created this 45-minute audio composite, which was very helpful,\u201d the \u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d actor said of his lengthy preparations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened to that every day, in hopes of learning his speech patterns, but really, in an attempt to try to get into his mindset and understand that each day that we were shooting. It was an exhaustive search, trying to find private moments, times where he didn\u2019t seem self-conscious, so you could get a glimpse into how he behaved prior to these interviews and being in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peters\u2019 co-star Niecy Nash recalled greeting the actor when he was working on becoming more like Dahmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to respect that and I wanted to keep him there,\u201d she said of encountering his method acting practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prayed for you a lot, for real, because this is weighty. And when you stay in it, and you\u2019re tethered to the material, like bone to marrow, your soul is troubled at some point. And I could see him getting tired. I just said, \u2018Well, I\u2019m just gonna make sure I keep him in my prayers, because this is a lot and he wants to do it justice.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Peters, the actor who played serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in the recently released Netflix drama series, said he took great pains to stay in character for months in preparation for the role. \u201cDahmer: Monster\u201d was a huge success for the streaming platform, quickly becoming the second-most streamed show of all time by mid-October. 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