“The self-tape was just sort of an exploration. “I made a self-taped audition with my band R5’s tour photographer, and he was like, ‘You’re going to get this that was really good,’” says Lynch, who had never heard of Dahmer before reading the script. Most young actors might have resisted the prospect of humanizing a serial killer, but not Lynch.
But for his first feature film role, Lynch chose the gonzo, gore-tinged coming-of-age tale My Friend Dahmer-in which he plays the titular role.īased on a graphic novel by one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s real-life high school classmates, the film tracks the killer’s rocky adolescence just before his 17-victim spree began.
If you’re familiar with Lynch’s previous work, you are probably a tween Lynch, 21, is best known as one half of the musical duo from Disney Channel’s series Austin & Ally. That said, when it comes to molting one’s Disney exterior, Ross Lynch may be the most extreme case study yet.
When it comes to transitioning from child to adult actor, some make a complete one-eighty take former Mouseketeer Ryan Gosling, who had played a teenage serial killer and a neo-Nazi by the time he made The Notebook.
