{"id":271294,"date":"2025-10-02T07:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271294\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:19:14","slug":"monster-star-charlie-hall-shares-acting-tip-he-got-from-mom-julia-louis-dreyfus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271294\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Monster&#8217; star Charlie Hall shares acting tip he got from mom Julia Louis-Dreyfus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Hall says the most valuable acting advice he ever received from his mom, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, was surprisingly \u201cbasic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first started acting, I was like, \u2018Mom, how do I become good at this?\u2019 and she was like, \u2018I think you should read every script and ask yourself, how [would] a human say the words you\u2019re about to say?&#8217;\u201d he told Page Six exclusively at the premiere of \u201cMonster: The Ed Gein Story\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hall shared that he knows the advice may sound trite, but explained it was actually a powerful lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Hall spoke to Page Six at the \u201cMonster: The Ed Gein Story\u201d premiere. Page Six<\/p>\n<p>Hall plays a deputy investigating a serial killer in the series. COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes in the flurry of acting techniques, you kind of forget that your first, and kind of only job, is to feel like a real human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/01\/25\/julia-louis-dreyfus-reacts-to-sons-very-racy-sex-scenes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Sex Lives of College Girls\u201d star<\/a> is the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/04\/26\/julia-louis-dreyfus-describes-miscarriage-late-in-pregnancy-at-28\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youngest son of the \u201cSeinfeld\u201d alum<\/a> and her husband, Brad Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Hall, 28, is following in his mom\u2019s footsteps, albeit in slightly darker territory, with a role in the upcoming Ryan Murphy \u201cMonster\u201d series. He plays Deputy Frank Worden, who helped investigate the crimes of Ed Gein.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Hall is the youngest son of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall. FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p>He said that his mom gave him valuable advice when he started acting. NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sex Lives of College Girls\u201d star said his mom told him that when he reads a script he should think how, \u201ca human says the words you\u2019re about to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield, was a killer who exhumed corpses and created grotesque keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also assiduously peeled off people\u2019s faces, including his mother\u2019s, and wore them as masks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>His macabre crimes have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/22\/entertainment\/how-this-serial-killer-inspired-psycho-texas-chainsaw-and-ryan-murphys-monster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inspired a myriad of fictional serial killers<\/a>, most notably Norman Bates in \u201cPsycho,\u201d Leatherface in \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d and Buffalo Bill in \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gein died in 1984 while confined to a psychiatric institution.<\/p>\n<p>The newest season of \u201cMonster\u201d tells the story of real-life killer Ed Gein. Bettmann Archive<\/p>\n<p>Gein is portrayed by Charlie Hunnam in the series. COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/p>\n<p>Hall said he didn\u2019t experience nightmares while filming, but \u201cI had to make a point to watch something funny when I got home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other celebrities on the red carpet included Charlie Hunnam, who plays Gein, Laurie Metcalf and Tom Hollander.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EDBmpfbnLGk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cMonster: The Ed Gein Story\u201d<\/a> will be available for streaming on Netflix on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Hall says the most valuable acting advice he ever received from his mom, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, was surprisingly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":271295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[568,185,9477,1857,172,171,6335,140861,9475,59164,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-271294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-children","11":"tag-celebrity-families","12":"tag-celebrity-news","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-exclusive","15":"tag-julia-louis-dreyfus","16":"tag-parents","17":"tag-ryan-murphy","18":"tag-tv","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115303360986854015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}