While exploring one of the most infamous crimes of the past decade, Johnny Berchtold was committed to bringing a full spectrum of emotion to his portrayal of Paul Murdaugh.

The Murdaugh: Death in the Family actor told Deadline he even “tricked my TikTok algorithm” into thinking he was a young man from South Carolina while playing the youngest Murdaugh, who was shot dead along with his mother Maggie on June 7, 2021, two years after Paul crashed a boat that killed his friend Mallory Beach.

“It was just about ingesting so much as I could,” he explained. “There was so much research that went into it, that when I signed on, there was a 400-, 500-page binder of research that had, I mean, everything in there, and then, it was about ingesting all of that and then sort of blocking out any o

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