Nicholas Alexander Chavez, star of Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story, has mentioned he understands why the actual Erik Menendez is sad with the hit Netflix sequence.
Chavez instructed USA At this time that he has “sympathy and empathy” for Menendez, who claimed that Ryan Murphy’s drama is “vile and appalling” in its portrayal of the Menendez’s homicide of their mother and father in August 1989.
“I can solely reply with sympathy and empathy in that I can solely think about how troublesome it’s to have essentially the most traumatic second of your life put up there on the display for everybody to see,” mentioned Chavez, who performs Lyle within the nine-part sequence.
Erik Menendez’s assertion about Monsters, shared on social media by his wife Tammi Menendez, was notably vital of the depiction of Lyle. He mentioned it was “a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant within the present.”
Talking on the premiere of Grotesquerie, Chavez defined the work that went into his function, together with studying books, watching documentaries, and reviewing courtroom footage. “With the courtroom TV footage, you’re getting a glimpse into what was occurring in that point, however the present goals to fill out much more particulars than simply the courtroom scenes,” he mentioned.
Erik’s assertion continued: “It’s unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward — again by means of time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma in another way than girls.
“These terrible lies have been disrupted and uncovered by numerous courageous victims during the last 20 years who’ve damaged by means of their private disgrace and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by means of vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”
Murphy also responded to Erik’s statement at the Grotesquerie premiere, questioning his feedback on Monsters when he “hasn’t watched the present.”
Murphy added: “We all know two folks have been brutally shot. Our view and what we needed to do was current you all of the info and have you ever do two issues: make up your individual thoughts about who’s harmless, who’s responsible, and who’s the monster, and now have a dialog about one thing that’s by no means talked about in our tradition, which is male sexual abuse, which we do responsibly.”
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story debuted on September 18 and topped Netflix’s viewing charts, putting up 12.3M views in its opening weekend. The sequence stars Cooper Koch as Erik, with Javier Bardem as José, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty, Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne, and Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson.
