ABOVE: Subtlety is overrated.

He'll hit you like a truck ... (Image via vintage magazine)

BELOW: Keep reading for Jack Dylan Grazer and Tyler Posey coming out, the Carters celebrating 75 years of marriage, Ross Lynch's hot brothers and more  ...

Via Mr. Man: Some of the sexiest celebrities in Hollywood have played teens gone wild on screen, even though most of them were older (and all of them 18+).

ABOVE: Yeah, I know it's a filter, but gahhh.

BELOW: Keep reading for Ross Lynch's underthings, Mariah Carey joining forces with trash, COVID-19's route to NYC (connection in Europe) and more ...

ABOVE: NYC views.

BELOW: Keep reading to stare at Joe Jonas's ass, for Trump's (and America's) slide into dementia, for Jim Jordan getting called out as a felonious cry-baby and more ...

ABOVE: Beachy keen.

BELOW: Keep reading for a calendar guy (and then some), Trump's fat-shaming insult to his own supporter, Ross Lynch in his underpants and more ...

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ABOVE: Strapping lad.

BELOW: Keep reading for a literally Big Brother contestant, the Sabrina hotties, Cesar Sayoc's stripper roommate, Trump's un-warm wlecome and more ...

Twenty-one-year-old Ross Lynch, who starred as a crushworthy musician on Disney Channel's Austin & Ally for five years and who headed up two Teen Beach Movie installments for the network,  isn't on the typical Mouse House trajectory of some of his forebears.

The Teen Beach boys: Ross Lynch & Garrett Clayton (GIFs via Disney Channel)

When I met him back in 2012, he struck me as a potential future Michael Jackson or Justin Timberlake, displaying effortless dance skills and bursting into song while I attempted to corral him for an interview for the teen mag I founded. He also had mega-charm, enough to stick out among a cast of talents that included similarly charismatic Garrett Clayton.

Lynch is transformed on the big screen as Dahmer (Image via FilmRise)

Instead of a solo journey, Lynch surprised me by eschewing the Hilary/Miley/Demi/Selena route, focusing on music with his mostly-family rock band R5 and, now, by choosing a movie role that represents a 180 from his perky Disney character Austin Moon, that of a teenage Jeffrey Dahmer before his serial-killing days in the well-received My Friend Dahmer.

It's a disturbing film, one that could best be described as coming-of-rage.

My Review of My Friend Dahmer

In the film, which is in theaters now, he brings to life a pathologically awkward teenage boy whose family trouble, social-outcast status and verboten, unannounced homosexuality make him strangely relatable ... until you remind yourself that the character would, in real life, grow up to kill and eat a bunch of innocent dudes.

I spoke with Lynch about this unique moment in his life and career, when everybody's niece knows him and more adults are getting the memo every day, as well as all about the bold-as-hell movie that is helping to put him on the grown-up map ...