killer role
Former Disney teen heartthrob Ross Lynch tells Attitude what prompted him to delve deep into the psyche of a deranged gay murderer — and reveals the effects of doing so…
Words Adam Duxbury
Ross wears jacket and jeans by Dior Homme trainers by Raf Simons X adidas STYLING Avo Yermagyan at Forward Artists GROOMING Lucy Halperin at The Wall Group
Photography Leigh Keily
Ross Lynch has already had a pretty successful career. At the age of 15 he was the lead vocalist in the pop/ rock band R5, with his siblings, and a year later he landed a lead role in the Disney Channel comedy Austin & Ally. He followed that by appearing in the fluffy Disney musical Teen Beach Movie.
But now he’s ready to free himself from the shackles of his bubblegum beginnings and follow in the footsteps of Disney alumni Zac Efron, Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus (to name but a few) by killing off his squeaky-clean persona and establishing himself as “the real deal.” His chilling performance as a young Jeffrey Dahmer, in the new biopic My Friend Dahmer is a complex portrayal of the infamous gay serial killer before he committed the first of 16 murders. And his next role will be as Harvey Kinkle in Netflix’s “darker” reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch which could make Ross, now 22, an even bigger star.