And, really, who could blame her?

Charlie Hunnam’s girlfriend asked him to stop doing Ed Gein voice at home

And, really, who could blame her?

By Lauren Huff

Lauren Huff

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January 5, 2026 11:30 p.m. ET

Charlie Hunnam in 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story'. Credit:

Charlie Hunnam's girlfriend had a very relatable reaction to the voice he created to play killer Ed Gein: Can you please not do that?

"I was slipping in and out of it all the time," Hunnam told *Live From E!: Critics Choice Awards*' Justin Sylvester at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday of the voice. "And she would say, 'Dude, you have to stop at the voice. At breakfast, it's a little too much,'" he added, referring to longtime girlfriend Morgana McNelis.

Hunnam notably created a very eerie, soft-spoken voice to play Gein in the third season of Netflix true-crime horror anthology series, *Monster: The Ed Gein Story*. True to its title, the season explores the life of the convicted murderer and body snatcher through the lens of the many fictional horror stories that were at least partially inspired by his crimes, such as *Psycho*, *The Texas Chain Saw Massacre*, and *The Silence of the Lambs*.

Morgana McNelis and Charlie Hunnam attend Netflix's 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story' New York premiere.

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"I took the role and then regretted it," Hunnam admitted to* E!* on Sunday. "The scripts weren't available, so all I had to go upon when I started working were all of the texts that have been written about him. They were just this litany of this sensationalist horror show of all of the things that he did, which were undoubtedly terrible."**

"But there was a human being in there, a mixed-up, mentally ill, abused, isolated man inside there that was driving all of that," he continued. "So it took a while to get past what he did, to be able to find who he was inside and why he was doing what he was doing."

Hunnam, who was on hand at the annual awards shindig as a nominee in the category of Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries for *Monster*, joked that he ended up being grateful he took on the project after all.

"Now, we're standing here, and I'm happy that I did," he told the outlet.

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Hunnam previously admitted to ** that he doesn't "really like the horror genre" or "impossibly dark, bleak stories," and so the role was always "kind of a strange choice" for him. So much so that he was "truly gobsmacked" when series co-creator Ryan Murphy asked him to play Gein during a two-hour dinner conversation.

"I just found myself saying yes," Hunnam recalled. "Based, I would say like 99 percent of it, on just how much I liked Ryan."**

And, ultimately, Hunnam said he found that the process of playing Ed Gein taught him something about himself.

"I think I learned the truth of like, that which you most need to find is where you least wish to look — you know, the greater the challenge, the greater the reward," he said.

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