Monster Season 3 Adds Laurie Metcalf as Ed Gein’s Mother, Two More to Cast
Laurie Metcalf is about to play the mother of a Monster.
The Emmy winner has signed on to play the mother of infamous killer Ed Gein in Season 3 of the Netflix true-crime anthology, TVLine has confirmed. (Our sister site Variety first reported the news.)
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Sons of Anarchy alum Charlie Hunnam will star as Gein, executive producer Ryan Murphy announced last month. Gein confessed to killing two women in the 1950s and was accused of killing several more as well as digging up corpses and making keepsakes out of human body parts, with his crimes serving as the inspiration for Hollywood horror movies like Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Along with Metcalf as Gein’s mother Augusta, the Monster Season 3 cast will also include Tom Hollander, who just worked with Murphy on FX’s FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans, as Psycho director Alfred Hitchcock and Olivia Williams (The Crown) as Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville.
Each season of Monster is centered on a different real-life killer who made headlines. Season 1 starred Evan Peters as cannibalistic killer Jeffrey Dahmer, with Niecy Nash as suspicious neighbor Glenda. Season 2, dubbed Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, debuted last month on Netflix and dramatized the saga of the Menendez brothers, who became tabloid sensations when they killed their parents in 1989, with Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch starring as Lyle and Erik Menendez.
Metcalf is best known for playing Roseanne’s sister Jackie on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, a role that won her three Emmys for best supporting actress in a comedy. She currently reprises the role on ABC’s spinoff The Conners, which is set to wrap up with an abbreviated seventh season next year. Her other TV credits include The Big Bang Theory, Hacks, Getting On and Desperate Housewives.
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