Laurie Metcalf and Tom Hollander join ‘Monster’ Season 3 as Ed Gein’s mother and Alfred Hitchcock
“Monster” Season 3 is going “Psycho.”
Variety reports that Emmy winner Laurie Metcalf, Emmy nominee Tom Hollander, and British Independent Film Awards winner Olivia Williams have joined the cast of the next installment of Netflix’s massively popular true crime anthology drama series from creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. Season 3, “The Original Monster,” will follow serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein, who will be played by Charlie Hunnam. Metcalf will play Gein’s mother Augusta, a volatile religious fanatic with whom he had an extremely dysfunctional relationship.
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Gein was the inspiration for the character of Norman Bates in the film “Psycho,” and that fact will be explored in “Monster,” as Hollander will be playing director Alfred Hitchcock and Williams will be playing Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville. (Gein also inspired many other cinematic serial killers, including Leatherface in “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs.”)
“Monster” began in 2022 with “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which is one of Netflix’s most-watched shows of all time. Niecy Nash won an Emmy for her performance as Glenda Cleveland, a neighbor who reported serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to the police. The second season, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” premiered in September of this year and racked up 53.6 million views in its first four weeks of release so far and attracted controversy for its depiction of the brothers who murdered their parents in 1989.
Metcalf’s husband Jeff Perry appears in “Monsters,” but this will be her first appearance in a Ryan Murphy project. She is a four-time Emmy winner, two-time Tony winner, and one-time Academy Award nominee. Hollander is coming off his first Emmy nomination for playing Truman Capote in Murphy’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.” Williams won a British Independent Film Award for her performance in 2003’s “The Heart of Me.”
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