{"id":128759,"date":"2017-11-06T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128759"},"modified":"2017-11-06T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:16:09","slug":"former-disney-star-ross-lynch-goes-very-dark-in-film-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/06\/former-disney-star-ross-lynch-goes-very-dark-in-film-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Disney star Ross Lynch goes very dark in film role"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128762\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Ross_Lynch_Paparazzo_Photography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128762\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Ross_Lynch_Paparazzo_Photography.jpg\" alt=\"The \u201cAustin and Ally\u201d star plays Jeffrey Dahmer in \u201cMy Friend Dahmer\u201d as a high school student, long before he went on his murderous rampages. (Photo By Paparazzo Presents - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Ross_Lynch_Paparazzo_Photography.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Ross_Lynch_Paparazzo_Photography-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/800px-Ross_Lynch_Paparazzo_Photography-768x753.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The \u201cAustin and Ally\u201d star plays Jeffrey Dahmer in \u201cMy Friend Dahmer\u201d as a high school student, long before he went on his murderous rampages. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=20483861\">(Photo By Paparazzo Presents &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014 Former Disney star Ross Lynch has taken on one of the toughest film assignments you can get making a cannibalistic serial killer likable.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAustin and Ally\u201d star plays Jeffrey Dahmer in \u201cMy Friend Dahmer\u201d as a high school student, long before he went on his murderous rampages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough you know he&#8217;s going to become a serial killer, it&#8217;s not hard to think of him as a human because he once was. And really, our film takes place at the time when he&#8217;s losing his humanity, when he&#8217;s becoming this monster. So, we have to start with him with his humanity,\u201d said Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old actor admits he wasn&#8217;t familiar with Dahmer, who raped, murdered, and dismembered 17 men and boys. He died in prison in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you start reading one sentence about Jeffrey Dahmer, it usually leads to hours of researching the things that he did because they&#8217;re unbelievable, like the definition of the word unbelievable,\u201d Lynch said.<\/p>\n<p>While the new role was a radical departure for Lynch he made a name on the music-filled comedy for Disney he knew it was important for his growth as an actor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not as family friendly, but you know it&#8217;s interesting. I do have a lot of younger fans, but you find that a lot of their parents are really fans, too, because they end up watching the show and the movies, end up listening to the music in the car. So, a lot of the parents are equally almost as much of a fan,\u201d Lynch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u2014 Former Disney star Ross Lynch has taken on one of the toughest film assignments you can get making &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[31402,31401,31400],"class_list":["post-128759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-cannibalistic-serial-killer-likable","tag-former-disney-star-ross-lynch","tag-former-disney-star-ross-lynch-goes-very-dark-in-film-role","mauthors-john-carucci","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}