Ryan Eggold on Transforming Into a ‘Psychopathic’ Serial Killer for ‘Cross’ and Creating Ramsey’s ‘Ken Doll’ Look

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Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “Cross,” now streaming on Prime Video. After playing the very likable Dr.

Max Goodwin for five seasons of “New Amsterdam,” Ryan Eggold was ready to jump into something new. While “not necessarily looking for something darker,” Eggold was intrigued when “Cross” showrunner Ben Watkins came to him with serial killer Ed “Fanboy” Ramsey. “It’s been a while since I played a villain, and I’d certainly never played anything this psychopathic, masochistic, detached and cold,” he tells Variety. “My initial impressions of him were just that kind of ‘American Psycho’ vibes, American exceptionalism to an unhealthy psychotic degree, and sort of this amazing representation of greed and power, and being hungry for power.

The kind of person who’s capable of manipulating other people without remorse, without empathy — certainly reflective of certain figures we see today.” In the series based on James Patterson’s novels, Aldis Hodge portrays Det.

Alex Cross, who spends the first season hunting down Ramsey, a serial killer he finds out is kidnapping victims, then giving them a makeover to look exactly like famous serial killers — before then murdering them. “Once it got into the sort of the serial killer aspect, it was reminiscent of many serial killers history, like, Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer — these killers who are capable of a great deal of charm to lure people in,” Eggold says.