Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story star Nicholas Alexander Chavez says he sympathizes with the Menéndez brothers after the discharge of the Netflix sequence.
Whereas talking completely to PEOPLE on the New York Metropolis premiere of one other one in all his latest Ryan Murphy tasks — the sequence Grotesquerie — on Monday, Sept. 23, Chavez, 25, mentioned taking up the position of Lyle Menéndez in Monsters and whether or not he was nervous for the sequence to return out.
“I actually sympathize with the brothers, the truth that this was probably the most traumatic second of their life, after which having that placed on tv for the world to see. I’d think about that may be extremely heavy,” Chavez informed PEOPLE of the sequence’ launch.
Lyle and Erik Menéndez (performed by Cooper Koch within the present) are each incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in California after killing their parents, José and Kitty, on Aug. 20, 1989. The brothers have maintained that they murdered them attributable to ongoing psychological, bodily and sexual abuse.
Erik recently criticized the show‘s portrayal of himself and Lyle in a Facebook publish, calling “the information” of their lives “inaccurate.”
“I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant lies rampant within the present,” Erik mentioned within the publish.
When requested if he’d spoken to Lyle himself in the course of the means of filming the present, Chavez insisted he hadn’t and that he’d simply been informed about Erik’s response.
“No, I didn’t,” he informed PEOPLE on Monday of whether or not he’d been in communication with Lyle.
He mentioned he realizes the responses to such a present have in all probability been “assorted, as they need to be.”
“It is delicate subject material and I think about that everybody is forming their very own interpretations of what occurred as we imagined and supposed that they’d,” Chavez informed PEOPLE of the response.
The Menéndez murders have made nationwide headlines by means of the years and have spawned a number of documentaries. The killings, in response to the brothers, got here after years of alleged sexual abuse by their Hollywood government father. They declare the abuse was ignored by their mom.
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Authorities have claimed the brothers’ motive was greed, citing the lavish spending spree — which concerned costly watches, automobiles, and tennis classes — the 2 went on after the slayings.
“There was a media spectacle from the start,” Lyle mentioned in a clip shared by PEOPLE from the upcoming The Menéndez Brothers documentary, which premieres on Netflix on Oct. 7.
“So, we weren’t those who informed the story about our lives,” Erik mentioned. “Two youngsters don’t commit this crime for cash.”
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story is out now on Netflix. Grotesquerie premieres its first two episodes on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX.