Leatherface appeared in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and his character design was lauded.
 Actor Sam Strike believed that Leatherface was formed by the experiences in the early part of his life; born into a family of psychopaths whose twisted views on the world were impressed upon him at birth, and his later experiences spending most of his childhood in an asylum, describing the character as "a victim of circumstance"
 Once hired for the prequel, Bryniarski was advised by the filmmakers to forget much of the traits that had defined Leatherface in the previous film, as the prequel would depict a Leatherface that was not fully formed, having yet to embrace his true monstrous nature

