Looper recently attended a press junket for “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” where the cast answered reporters’ questions about their experience on the project. Peters used some pretty extreme methods to prepare, from wearing lead weights around his arms and stuffing lifts in his shoes to reading and educating himself about Dahmer’s psyche. “I wanted to dive into the psychology of that extreme side of human behavior, so I read as many books as I could, psychology reports, confessions, timelines, all in an attempt to try and understand why he did what he did.” At the same presser, his co-star Niecy Nash confessed that she was keeping him in her prayers because he was so deep in the role that she was worried about his emotional well-being.
Getting out of that dark headspace was actually relatively simple for Peters, thankfully. Once filming had finished and he was free to release the negativity he had absorbed in order to play Dahmer to the best of his ability, he turned to romantic comedies and family to cheer him back up. “Now it’s time to bring in the joy and the lightness and watch some comedies and romances and go back to St. Louis and see my family and friends and…you know, watch ‘Step Brothers,'” is what he told himself, which prompted Nash to make a funny quip about Peters starring in the next big Hollywood romantic comedy. It got a big laugh out from everyone present, which begs the question: which Hollywood studio will be brave enough to make that movie happen? Only time will tell.
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