How Chad Michael Murray Really Felt About His Riverdale Role

Known for playing the pretty boy on "One Tree Hill" and one of Rory's boyfriends on "Gilmore Girls," portraying a wild cult leader shouldn't have come easy to Chad Michael Murray. However, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Murray shared that he made sure to study up on real-life cult leaders to make his characterization the strongest it could be. "As an actor, when someone asks you if you want to play a cult leader, the answer is always yes," he told the outlet.

Focusing on Charles Manson to better understand his character, the actor ended up delivering a believable performance. Murray told EW, "For me, a lot of the work that I did for Edgar was psychological. There's two major pieces to a cult — the leader and the followers — and I find them both incredibly fascinating. We want to know what about the leader makes him special, but what about the people that are following him? How did they get to this? For me it was asking those questions that gave me Edgar."