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Evan Thomas Peters is an American actor. He is best known for his multiple roles on the FX anthology series American Horror Story, as Stan Bowes in the first season of the FX ballroom drama series Pose, and as Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver in the X-Men film series (2014–2019) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe series WandaVision. In 2021, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance in Mare of Easttown. In the same year Peters returned to the American Horror Story universe, playing writer and entertainer Austin Sommers in the first part, Red Tide, of the tenth season. Most recently Peters portrayed infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in the Ryan Murphy created Netflix miniseries, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
Evan Peters
Ed Wood
for Ed Wood in Bela: Children of the Night (Biopic)
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"Bela: Children of the Night" is a tragic, atmospheric drama that peels back the cape of Hollywood’s most famous monster to reveal the proud, broken man underneath. The film begins in 1931 with Bela Lugosi at the height of his powers—an aristocratic Hungarian theater star who conquers America as Dracula. He is charismatic, intensely , and convinced he is the next romantic lead of the silver screen. However, the narrative quickly descends into the nightmare of typecasting. The film explores Bela's pride as his greatest enemy; his refusal to play "mute brutes" (like Frankenstein's monster) allows his rival, the gentle and British Boris Karloff, to eclipse him. As the horror genre fades and the studios turn their backs, Bela spirals into a harrowing addiction to morphine to treat his chronic war injuries. The third act is a heartbreaking look at his twilight years: living in near-poverty, deluded by his own legacy, and finding a strange, exploitative, yet affectionate final friendship with the young, inept director Ed Wood. It is a story about an immigrant who wanted to be a star but was forced to be a monster until the end.
