People showed up on set and they were like, “There’s no way.” They were shocked at how accurate my walk was. When we were filming, word got out, because we were in his hometown.
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And he was so strong he had awkward movements. My Friend Dahmer is one of the most uncomfortable movie experiences I've had in a very long time I don't know if 'cringe horror' is a term, but along with Split and Creep it seems like we're witnessing the emergence of a burgeoning genre comprised of films centered around deeply flawed, awkward, and dangerous characters. He was somewhat gentle in his younger years, because he was so shy. He was a big guy and he was really burly. There are a few interviews, it’s very short, but he walks right into the interview. I would kind of walk around the house and practice the movement. I’m doing a version of him slowly losing his humanity. After viewing this source material for the new movie of the same name, I think that Derf Backderf should have called his graphic comic That Damaged Kid Who I. That was a different time in Dahmer’s life. He had somewhat of that Midwestern twang, almost like a Minnesota accent, but not really. There are many interviews about him confessing about what was going through his head. He was also surprisingly smart and charming. It’s so twisted and scary to read about the things he did. When “Dahmer” came along, it was the perfect opportunity to really immerse myself in that role and hint at what I’d like to do in the future. I didn’t want to go off the rails and started partying. Although it was a great time and I learned extraordinary things, I knew there had to be something. When I was doing the majority of the Disney stuff, I was always thinking, “What’s next?,” because Disney is not forever. There’s a tradition of Disney stars - from Anne Hathaway to Selena Gomez - going dark in independent films. I thought, “This sounds really interesting.” I auditioned a few times. What did you know about Jeffrey Dahmer’s story?īelieve it or not, I didn’t know who Jeffrey Dahmer was. Lynch spoke to Variety about the film and if he’s trying to break away from his squeaky-clean Disney past.
“I kept losing sleep because - in my imagination - I kept seeing him in the corner of my room. But the role in the independent movie, which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday night, started to seep into the actor’s psyche. This story takes place before that, as Dahmer is graduating from high school in the late ’70s and struggling to fit in. “My Friend Dahmer” (based on a graphic novel by Derf Backderf) is a departure for Lynch, who starred in “Teen Beach Movie.” He wears shaggy hair and big glasses to channel a disturbed criminal who murdered 17 men and boys before his 1991 arrest. “This is going to sound weird - it was almost like I was home.”
“When I arrived, I felt comfortable,” says Lynch, 21. The movie shot for two weeks in that eerie location, near Akron, Ohio. Starring Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts and Vincent Kartheiser. He took over the childhood home where Jeffrey Dahmer grew up and murdered his first victim.
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To play a young serial killer in “My Friend Dahmer,” ex-Disney Channel star Ross Lynch didn’t just walk in his character’s shoes.