Garrett Hedlund ‘Always’ Want to Play Charlie Hunnam’s Brother (Excl)

Garrett Hedlund is gearing up for friend Charlie Hunnam’s performance in Monster: The Ed Gein Story — just like Us.

“I can’t wait to see it. I know he put a lot of work into it,” Hedlund, 41, told Us Weekly exclusively at the Tulsa King season 3 red carpet on Tuesday, September 16. “I was so jazzed when I saw the poster and the trailer for it.”

The upcoming Netflix show (set to premiere next month) released its first trailer on Monday, September 15, and Hedlund said it looked “fantastic.” The actor also offered some insight into how much Hunnam’s prepared to play serial killer Ed Gein.

“He worked his ass off,” Hedlund continued. “I can’t wait.”

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Hedlund and Hunnam, 45, played brothers Ben and William Miller, respectively, in 2019’s Triple Frontier. Hedlund told Us that he and Hunnam are “always” looking for more projects to star in together.

“We’re always looking for things, specifically, brother stuff,” he said. “We’re always looking for the next thing, and we think we found it about five times a year.”

Hunnam referred to Hedlund as a “very dear” friend during a March 2019 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, revealing that they had known each other for 15-plus years.

“In this film, he plays an MMA fighter, and I am a jujitsu practitioner,” Hunnam said at the time, discussing Triple Frontier and reflecting on a series of paparazzi photos that showed the two actors wrestling on the beach. “I was teaching him some jujitsu, and we were rolling a lot and fighting a lot.”

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He added, “The sun was shining and we were in good spirits, so I just tackled him and had a little wrestle. But it was not intended to be photographed and documented for the world to see.”

Their real-life friendship came through on the movie’s set so much that the movie’s director J.C. Chandor changed up their characters to become brothers.

“He was looking at us both and feeling like there was too much similarity physically and just our vibes were too similar that he felt like it would ask too many questions if they weren’t related,” Hunnam told Screen Rant at the time. “He was trying to figure out which one of us he would hire and which one he wouldn’t. Then, he had this Eureka moment of realizing he could just change the script and write us as brothers.”

He added, “It was required very little for the two of us to create a brotherly bond.”