{"id":29027,"date":"2019-08-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1065382"},"modified":"2019-08-16T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:00:00","slug":"the-real-life-serial-killers-haunting-mindhunters-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/the-real-life-serial-killers-haunting-mindhunters-second-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real-Life Serial Killers Haunting Mindhunter’s Second Season"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Virginia native Jack Erdie plays the endlessly disturbing Speck, source of some of season one’s most grotesque lines. <\/p>\n

After sending in a tape, then reading in person, he reached step three, an audition in front of casting director Laray Mayfield.<\/p>\n

“I went in and I did it the way I had done it, which was with a certain bravura and swagger,” Erdie told Absolute Music Chat<\/a>, “and then she said, ‘Let’s have one, in the way that you get with a sociopath: take away all the affect, do it almost monotone.’ And I knew right away it was a brilliant redirect and we did it, and as it was going on I could see physical changes in her, as she was watching and interacting until, by the end of it, her shoulders had come up a bit, her chin had receded a bit. At the end she just looked up from the script and from behind the camera and she had got this kind of smile that seems both chilled and ecstatic.”<\/p>\n

He first heard of Speck when he saw the character on American Horror Story<\/em>, and he soon realized “what an irredeemable character he was, just from that: just a black hole really, of self-pity and rage.”<\/p>\n

Erdie, who was fitted with a dental prosthetic to play Speck, watched as much footage as was available of the man, but said he had already read the John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker’s Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit<\/em> “ages ago” and “done way<\/em> too much study of the criminal mind and the sociopath, the zero empathy mind, so that groundwork had already been laid.”<\/p>\n

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West Virginia native Jack Erdie plays the endlessly disturbing Speck, source of some of season one’s most grotesque lines.  After sending in a tape, then reading in person, he reached step three, an audition in front of casting director Laray Mayfield. “I went in and I did it the way I had done it, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-21 03:21:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}