'Dahmer': Evan Peters turned to comedy 'Step Brothers' to switch off - Insider

• Evan Peters credits "Step Brothers" for helping him permission down his relation arsenic Jeffrey Dahmer.
• The 2008 drama stars Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Richard Jenkins, Peters' "Dahmer" costar.
• "I brought successful a batch of acheronian and negativity," Peters said, per The Hollywood Reporter. 

Evan Peters said that helium credits the drama movie "Step Brothers" (2008) for helping him measurement distant from the "darkness" of "Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story."

At a sheet treatment connected Saturday moderated by showrunner Ryan Murphy, Peters opened up astir his clip playing the notorious serial killer, per The Hollywood Reporter.

During the event, Peters shared that helium turned to the lighthearted movie, directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, erstwhile helium was yet "able to breathe" and enactment the relation down him.

The movie besides stars Richard Jenkins, 1 of Peters' "Dahmer" costars. In some "Dahmer" and "Step Brothers," the Oscar-nominated histrion portrays the protagonist's father.

"Doing the role, I wanted to springiness it 120 percent the full mode through, truthful I brought successful a batch of acheronian and negativity," Peters said of his translation into the alleged Milwaukee Cannibal for the 10-episode miniseries which took six months to film.

"It was conscionable having that extremity end successful sight, knowing erstwhile we were going to wrapper and yet being capable to respire and fto it spell and say, OK, present it's clip to bring successful the joyousness and the lightness and ticker comedies and romances and spell backmost to St. Louis and spot my household and friends and yeah, ticker 'Step Brothers.'"

Niecy Nash, who was besides successful attendance and plays Dahmer's neighbour Glenda Cleveland successful the series, past teased that the brace should squad up adjacent for thing likewise easygoing.

"Evan Peters, you and maine successful a rom-com close aft this," Nash quipped. Peters replied: "Oh, I'm down."

Elsewhere successful the discussion, Peters said helium wore pb weights connected his arms "for months," some earlier and during the shoot, successful bid to mimic Dahmer's physicality. 

"He has a precise consecutive back. He doesn't determination his arms erstwhile helium walks, truthful I enactment weights connected my arms to spot what that felt like," Peters explained. "I wore the quality shoes with lifts successful them, his jeans, his glasses, I had a cigaret successful my manus astatine each times."

Peters besides worked with a dialect manager to recognize Dahmer's mannerisms and code patterns arsenic if it were "second nature."

Meanwhile, during a abstracted sheet quality connected Thursday, bid creator Murphy addressed the contention surrounding the show. Many radical person spoken retired against the series, including respective household members of Errol Lindsey, 1 of the killer's victims. 

Lindsey's sister, Rita Isbell, precocious penned a touching effort for Insider about however it felt having to ticker the amusement recreate the affectional unfortunate interaction connection she gave successful court, and besides noted that Netflix didn't interaction her astir the show.

Other household members accused Murphy of exploiting their trauma and retraumatizing them with the show and said Murphy ne'er contacted them earlier the bid aired — a assertion he has denied.