Evan Peters Talks Getting In Character For 'Dahmer,' Reveals How He Stepped Back From the Role After He Was Done

Evan Peters opened up about playing Jeffrey Dahmer.

The 35-year-old actor plays the serial killer in Netflix’s controversial hit series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, and he shared some insight into the challenging role.

More specifically, he got candid about embodying such a dark person and shared how he was able to come out of it during a recent interview.

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“Doing the role, I wanted to give it 120 percent the whole way through, so I brought in a lot of darkness and negativity,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

He also revealed what helped him get through it: “It was just having that end goal in sight, knowing when we were going to wrap and finally being able to breathe and let it go and say, ‘OK, now it’s time to bring in the joy and the lightness and watch comedies and romances and go back to St. Louis and see my family and friends and yeah, watch Step Brothers.’”

In case you missed it, creator Ryan Murphy shared that Evan had a very different sort of role in mind when he was pitched this one. He also responded to criticisms of the show.