<Ul> <Li> Sam Strike as Jedidiah Sawyer / Jackson </Li> </Ul> <Li> Sam Strike as Jedidiah Sawyer / Jackson </Li> <Dl> <Dd> Sam Strike plays Jackson, born Jedidiah Sawyer, as one of the four inmates that escape the mental institution, before ultimately becoming the eponymous Leatherface after enduring tragedies that destroy his cognitive stability . Leatherface is a mentally disabled serial killer seen throughout the TCM franchise, known for wearing masks made of human skin, and using a chainsaw and mallet as his signature weapons . Strike joined the film after reading the script, which he opined was, for a horror film, very character - driven . He felt that there needed to be a contrast between the two sides of the character, to show how a somewhat kind person can become such a killer: "It could happen to anybody . He had it in him because of his mother, but was at the mercy of his environment ." Strike integrated aspects from the original film into his performance out of respect, but wanted to give his own interpretation instead of imitating what came before . To make the character's transformation more believable, Strike intentionally tried to gain physical body weight before filming: "I was trying to eat as much as I could to just feel physically capable . Chainsaws, in reality, are very heavy, especially ones that are manufactured back in the' 50s and' 60s . Leatherface looks like he could take your head off with a slap; I wanted to be able to feel that way ." Strike believed that the character's bursts of rage throughout the film contributed to his final permanent state as a monster . He developed a "battle cry" for whenever Leatherface lost his temper . As someone who was taken from his biological family and put into foster care at an early age, Jedidiah Sawyer was written in the screenplay to have been adopted at one point by a family that wanted a little girl, forcing him to wear drag clothing as a child and foreshadowing his gender ambiguity in the 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre . This plot point was absent from the final cut of the film . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Sam Strike plays Jackson, born Jedidiah Sawyer, as one of the four inmates that escape the mental institution, before ultimately becoming the eponymous Leatherface after enduring tragedies that destroy his cognitive stability . Leatherface is a mentally disabled serial killer seen throughout the TCM franchise, known for wearing masks made of human skin, and using a chainsaw and mallet as his signature weapons . Strike joined the film after reading the script, which he opined was, for a horror film, very character - driven . He felt that there needed to be a contrast between the two sides of the character, to show how a somewhat kind person can become such a killer: "It could happen to anybody . He had it in him because of his mother, but was at the mercy of his environment ." Strike integrated aspects from the original film into his performance out of respect, but wanted to give his own interpretation instead of imitating what came before . To make the character's transformation more believable, Strike intentionally tried to gain physical body weight before filming: "I was trying to eat as much as I could to just feel physically capable . Chainsaws, in reality, are very heavy, especially ones that are manufactured back in the' 50s and' 60s . Leatherface looks like he could take your head off with a slap; I wanted to be able to feel that way ." Strike believed that the character's bursts of rage throughout the film contributed to his final permanent state as a monster . He developed a "battle cry" for whenever Leatherface lost his temper . As someone who was taken from his biological family and put into foster care at an early age, Jedidiah Sawyer was written in the screenplay to have been adopted at one point by a family that wanted a little girl, forcing him to wear drag clothing as a child and foreshadowing his gender ambiguity in the 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre . This plot point was absent from the final cut of the film . </Dd>

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