Charlie Hunnam’s girlfriend begged him to stop using Ed Gein voice at…
Breakfast with the butcher.
Charlie Hunnam’s longtime girlfriend, Morgana McNelis, requested that the actor stop using his Ed Gein voice — which he used to painting the notorious assassin for “The Monster: The Ed Gein Story.”
“She did [ask me],” Hunnam, 45, told E! News at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night time. “I was slipping in and out of it all the time, and she was saying, ‘Dude. You have to stop with the voice.’ At breakfast, it’s a little too much.”
Charlie Hunnam’s longtime girlfriend, Morgana McNelis, requested that the actor stop using his Ed Gein’s voice for season 3 of Ryan Murphy‘s “Monster,” in the home while he was prepping to movie. Getty Images
In another interview with ExtraTV, Hunnam referred to McNelis, 42, as his spouse while sharing how they rang in the new 12 months.
“We did it quiet,” he said. “I always like to ring in the new year mainly on the 1st rather than on the 31st. So my wife and I went to bed early, got up, had a really beautiful hike, and came in, set some intentions.”
The pair, who’ve been together since 2005, have never publicly announced that they’re married.
Hunnam was nominated for the “Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television” class for his performance in “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” at the star-studded bash.
Charlie Hunnam and Morgana McNelis at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 14, 2025. WireImage
Season 3 of Ryan Murphy’s anthology sequence aired in Oct. 2025 and centered on Ed Gein, also often called the “Butcher of Plainfield.” He was arrested in 1957 after authorities found that he had killed at least two women and exhumed corpses from graveyards.
Viewers had been impressed by Hunnam’s performance.
“As for Charlie Hunnam, I’m at a loss for words. What he delivered wasn’t just acting; it was transformation. You can feel the weight he carried in every frame.I just hope he’s doing okay(mentally) after diving that deep,” one individual wrote through X.
Before the present aired on Netflix, Hunnam revealed that he thought he made a “mistake” when he agreed to play the notorious serial killer. Getty Images for Netflix
“His voice, his facial expression, his creepiness, his awkward body movement…. Oh he is eating this role up,” another viewer wrote.
Before the present aired on Netflix, Hunnam revealed that he thought he made a “mistake” when he agreed to play the serial killer.
“I mean, it got in my head…The most in my head. Before we started shooting, during the research period, everything that’s been written about Ed have been these sort of sensationalist, grotesque litanies of just horror. And I really started to get scared that maybe I’d made a mistake and this was just going to be impossibly bleak and dark and a horrible process,” Hunnam told People last 12 months.
“And then there was a breakthrough.”
Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein and Suzanna Son as Adelina in a diner in season three of “Monsters.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, getting ready Addison Rae as Evelyn, who’s totally bandaged, on a desk in “Monsters: The Ed Gein Story.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
Season three of “Monsters” follows the lifetime of serial killer Ed Gein, who was arrested in 1957, after authorities found that he had killed at least two women and exhumed corpses from graveyards. COURTESY OF NETFLIX
The turning point was when he read Gein’s medical data, giving him a “less sensationalized depiction of who he was.”
“It was just the brass facts of his mental illness, his struggles with isolation, his emotional abandonment from his mother. And I just started to see the human,” Hunnam explained. “Because that’s what we were really trying to do, is just find the human story within this, ask the question what creates a monster and why this man did the things that he did, and less interested in what he did, and really very interested in trying to answer the question why he did what he did.”
Gein was discovered unfit to stand trial and was sectioned in a psychological health facility. He died in 1984 at the age of 77.
Many imagine Gein’s crimes impressed a number of horror movies, such as “Psycho,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Silence of the Lambs.”
“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” also stars Laurie Metcalf, Suzanna Son and Tom Hollander.
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