Narratively, however, it's extremely plodding, and could easily have been trimmed by 20 minutes. The film is tonally brilliant, coming across like The Breakfast Club (1985) directed by David Fincher, perfectly capturing 80s tackiness. Only two people did: Alex Wolff and one of our producers.Taking place over the course of Jeffrey Dahmer's last year in high school, and culminating with the fateful meeting between Dahmer ( Ross Lynch) and Steven Hicks ( Dave Sorboro), writer/director Marc Meyers's My Friend Dahmer is based on the graphic novel by John Backderf (played in the film by Alex Wolff), who attended the same school as Dahmer, and formed a pseudo-friendship with him. The whole challenge for the crew was to see who could beat Ross. During lunch, we would have a ping pong tournament. Us: In between takes, how did you lighten the mood? When the camera was on him, he would deflect people. Behind closed doors, he was probably a lot different. I watched a lot of videos to see how he walked, how he talked.
So while I was doing all these other, more light-hearted material, I was researching Jeffrey Dahmer in my trailer. I wrapped A Chorus Line and I flew to Akron, Ohio the next day. RL: I actually didn’t have that much time to do research. The crimes that he committed are, unfortunately, terrifying and devastating. I started researching Dahmer and he’s tragically interesting. When the script fell into my lap, at the time, I didn’t know who Jeffrey Dahmer was. I wanted to do something that was darker, a more intense character.
Ross Lynch: When I was on Disney Channel, I was thinking of the projects that I wanted to do next. Us Weekly: This is so different from what fans have seen you do on Disney. Playing Dahmer, there were ups and downs. “People often only see one side to someone’s personality, but there are levels. “This isn’t necessarily a ’boo’ scary film, but instead, it looks at the capabilities of a human, which makes it scary,” explains Lynch.
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