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Disney star Ross Lynch to portray Jeffrey Dahmer
‘Teen Beach’ actor will play serial killer as a teen
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Disney Channel star Ross Lynch has been cast as a young Jeffrey Dahmer, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Lynch, 20, will portray Dahmer in his teen years for the indie flick “My Friend Dahmer.” The film, directed and written by Marc Meyers, is an adaptation of the graphic novel series by John “Derf” Backderf.
The series is set in the ’70s through the perspective of Backderf, a childhood friend of Dahmer’s. It follows the infamous serial killer from the age of 12 until his first murder, committed two weeks after his high school graduation. Dahmer would go on to rape and murder 17 men and boys into the early ’90s.
Lynch is best known as the star in the Disney Channel movie “Teen Beach Movie” and in the series “Austin & Ally.” He is also a member of pop-rock band R5.
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