The 'Monsters' cast is weighing in on the controversy surrounding the Netflix series about the Menendez brothers case. Cooper Koch, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Nathan Lane and Ari Graynor weighed in to defend the show after Erik Menendez and the extended family condemned the new hit series, which became No. 1 on the streamer.
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00:00The Menendez cast is weighing in on the controversy surrounding the Netflix series about the Menendez
00:05brothers' case.
00:06Cooper Koch, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Nathan Lane and Ari Grainer weighed in to defend
00:11the show after Eric Menendez and the extended family condemned the new hit series.
00:16Monsters, the Eric and Lyle Menendez story is a portrayal of the two young men who killed
00:20their parents in 1989, but since its release, it turned into a back and forth between the
00:25show's creatives, including creator Ryan Murphy, defending the series and the Menendez
00:29extended family not happy with the depiction.
00:32Viewers have also called out the series for an unfair depiction, specifically, and most
00:36controversially, an implication that the two brothers were secretly lovers, a suggestion
00:41made at the time of the trial by Dominic Dunn, played by Lane in the series, who covered
00:44the trial for Vanity Fair.
00:46Koch told THR,
00:47As for the incest innuendo uproar, the series'
01:07breakout star suggests an important read of one scene to clarify the script's intent.
01:12In the scene after Dominic Dunn explains all of these theories at the chateau, it cuts
01:15to the shot from behind him, where all of his friends, where he was telling the stories
01:19to, are gone and the lights are out, and the candles are still burning, which to me shows
01:23that the people that he's telling this to are like, come on, Dominic, what are you saying?
01:26I hope people can understand that it's trying to show that no one believed that it's like
01:30that.
01:31This is an insane theory."
01:32On the topic of Menendez's angry letter denouncing the series, veteran actor Lane said,
01:37Chavez, who portrays Lyle Menendez, added,
01:54Both men are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for the double murder
02:05of their parents.
02:07As dramatized in the series, their defense at their joint trial was a revelation that
02:10they were victims of years of sexual and emotional abuse from both father Jose and mother Kitty
02:16Menendez.
02:17For more on the cast's thoughts, head to the article on THR.com.
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