Actor From Disney's AUSTIN AND ALLY Set To Star as Jeffrey Dahmer in MY FRIEND DAHMER
Ross Lynch, aka Austin Moon from Disney Channel show Austin and Aly, is going to play cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in a new movie. MoviePilot writes that Ross, who was also in the Disney TV movie Teen Beach, will be the star of the upcoming film My Friend Dahmer. The film is based on a graphic novel written by Derf Backderf who was friends with Dahmer in high school.
A fansite on Instagram posted a picture of Lynch and Dahmer side by side, and the resemblance is definitely there:
It used to be if you wanted to get noticed past your Disney kid tenure, you went into music like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato...there's a long list. Now I think some actors are trying what I call the "Miley Cyrus" method, which is completely shock the world with some weird shit so they don't look at you as "that kid actor" anymore. Really, this was technique was first started by Aguilera, but not that many people really remembered her from the Mickey Mouse Club when she first hit the scene.
I think what's more important than taking on a shocking role is doing it well. Yeah, Miley went off the rails, but she also made a pretty awesome album with two pretty huge singles. Can Ross Lynch deliver a stellar performance as Jeffrey Dahmer? We will see.