{"id":85883,"date":"2022-10-03T18:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/monster-crew-member-talks-exhausting-on-set-experience\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T18:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:50:03","slug":"monster-crew-member-talks-exhausting-on-set-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/monster-crew-member-talks-exhausting-on-set-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster crew member talks “exhausting” on-set experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Netflix’s Dahmer\u2014Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story<\/em><\/span>‘s eye-catching nature continues to prove a double-edged sword amidst new criticism from a production assistant who worked on the set. Kim Alsup calls Ryan Murphy’s limited series \u201cone of the worst shows\u201d she’s ever worked on\u2014specifically, she tells The Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/span>as a Black woman. <\/p>\n

Also initially shared her discontents in a now-private twitter <\/a><\/span>thread and has since opened up to The Times<\/em> about exactly why she’s choosing not to watch the series. Although Also said things improved while filming the series’ Janet Mock-helmed sixth episode \u201cSilenced,\u201d overall the main thing Alsup credits her Monster<\/em> experience with is newfound \u201cPTSD.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI just feel like it’s going to bring back too many memories of working on it. I don’t want to have these PTSD types of situations,\u201d Alsup says. \u201cThe trailer itself gave me PTSD, which is why I ended up writing that tweet and I didn’t think that anybody was going to read.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per Alsup, that PTSD stems from her \u201cexhausting\u201d experience on a set with no mental health coordinators, made worse by being one of only two Black crew members working the series. \u201cI was always being called someone else’s name, the only other Black girl who looked nothing like me, and I learned the names for 300 background extras,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n

Despite colossal opening weekend numbers, Monster<\/em>‘s streaming premiere has been steeped in controversy. alsup is not the first person<\/a><\/span> to criticize the series’ handling of Dahmer’s violence. She’s also not the first Black woman to do so\u2014 Rita Isbell, the sister of Dahmer victim Errol Lindsey, has also spoken out against the series. <\/p>\n

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Isbell, whose 1992 emotional impact statement from Dahmer’s sentencing trial is recreated in the series, has said Netflix never contacted her about using her likeness or monetizing her brother’s trauma. It’s a cruel irony, given that the series grapples with how authorities’ refusal to investigate the young, queer, and majority-POC men Dahmer killed victimized them a second time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like Netflix should’ve asked if we mind or how we felt about making it. They didn’t ask me anything,\u201d Isbell shares in an essay for insider<\/em><\/span>. \u201cThey just did it… But I’m not money hungry, and that’s what this show is about, Netflix trying to get paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n