Monster Season 3 Announces More Cast, Including The Night Manager Star

And now a wave of new casting announcements for the upcoming season have been revealed, with Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird), Tom Hollander (The Night Manager) and Olivia Williams (The Crown) signing up for key roles, according to Variety.

Hollander will play a very famous figure in Alfred Hitchcock, with Williams starring as his wife Alma Reville, so it seems likely that the series will explore the fact that Gein was one of the original inspirations for the Norman Bates character in Master. from the classic thriller film, Psycho.

Meanwhile, Metcalf will play Gein’s mother, Augusta.

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It will be the second time in recent months that Hollander has played an iconic creative on a Ryan Murphy show, after taking on the role of Truman Capote in the second season of another of his anthology shows, Feud.

This is the first time that Metcalf and Williams have appeared on one of the producer’s prolific series.

In a recent interview with Collider, Murphy revealed that filming would begin later this month and explained why Gein was chosen as the subject of Season 3.

“After we made Menendez, Ian and I talked about it and we were interested in the idea of ​​’Where did our cultural interest in serial killers begin? Where and how did this all begin?'” he said.

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“Based on our research, the first one who became a celebrity at this level was Ed, who became a crazy celebrity instantly from the moment he was arrested. Nobody had ever heard of anything like that. Then we found out – he was motivated, obviously – but he was schizophrenic. How he became what he became was a very interesting story.

Gein was an American murderer and suspected serial killer whose horrific crimes became the morbid inspiration for several fictional film characters, including the aforementioned Norman Bates, as well as Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs and Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from Texas.

Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez is now streaming on Netflix – sign up to Netflix from £4.99 per month. Netflix is ​​also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream.

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