Niecy Nash-Betts didn't know what role — or even what project — she was saying yes to when she got a blind offer for Netflix's Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

"Ryan Murphy called me and said, 'Hey, I've got this thing I want you to do,'" she recalls on EW's Awardist podcast (recorded prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike). "And I said, 'Okay, yes, I'll do it.' Then I looked at the scripts and was like, oh my God."