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‘Lizzie Borden’ Cast on Treating the Story as a Comedy, the Joy of Playing a Sadistic Character and Finding Empathy for a Bloody Monster: ‘I Understand This Person’

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‘Lizzie Borden’ Cast on Treating the Story as a Comedy, the Joy of Playing a Sadistic Character and Finding Empathy for a Bloody Monster: ‘I Understand This Person’
Sep 17, 2026 2:55pm PT ‘Lizzie Borden’ Cast on Treating the Story as a Comedy, the Joy of Playing a Sadistic Character and Finding Empathy for a Bloody Monster: ‘I Understand This Person’

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@beautifulbill See All Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Ella Beatty as Lizzie Borden in episode 404 of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2026 Courtesy of Netflix

“Don’t you worry: I look after my axes,” Charlie Hunnam says proudly with an impish grin.

At the moment, he’s not in character but rather marveling at a hobby he picked up before filming “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.” In it, he plays Lizzie’s father, an undertaker who is fine chopping a client’s legs off if they are too tall for the coffin.

Hunnam himself says that in the months leading up to filming, he’d been noticing felled trees on the side of the road while driving through Los Angeles. He took to chopping them up and throwing them into the back of his pickup truck.

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