Monsters Series: 5 Crazy Facts You Didn't Know

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00:00Yeah, I once received a note from him when I was doing a play on Broadway.

00:07He sent me a note to thank me for my performance and that he and whoever he had come with had

00:15such a great time and there it was, Dominic Dunne.

00:18Wow, I didn't know this.

00:19We've been doing this for two days, I didn't know.

00:22Yeah, well, I like to keep a few things for myself.

00:25Surprises.

00:26So many surprises.

00:27I know.

00:28So, yes, I knew who he was and, yeah, you know, Ryan Murphy, they sent the first four

00:45episodes.

00:46Stop me if you've heard this before.

00:49Sent me the first four episodes and so I thought the writing was exceptional and then he said,

00:57we got on the phone and he said, you know, and then we're going to hopefully do a later

01:02episode where we explore a little more of Dominic's backstory and what makes him tick.

01:08I had the privilege of speaking and meeting both of them and I can tell you they're absolutely

01:14incredible people.

01:16They've been so involved in prison reform.

01:19They're doing this green space project to try and make prisons a better place, a better

01:23environment for incarcerated individuals and Eric teaches speech classes, he teaches meditation.

01:31They both are filled with light and I think they're just excellent, excellent people and

01:37I hope that the social justice system can decide to give them a new trial and hopefully

01:42they can get parole.

01:45It was one of the major, major, major highlights of this whole experience.

01:53They are incredible writers, led by Ian Brennan who wrote that script for episode five.

01:59They wrote the script almost a year before we started shooting it.

02:03It never changed, which is such a rare thing in TV and I was, after I read it the first

02:11time, I put it down for a few months and I was too scared to look at it for a long time.

02:18I was just intimidated by it and wanted to feel like I really knew who Leslie was before

02:24I got in there and Cooper had to do such extraordinary, difficult work that I just wanted to support

02:37him as best I could and know exactly what I was doing so that, God forbid, I wasn't

02:45the one to mess that up.

02:49And we did it, we shot it eight times over two days, so we did it four times a day and

02:55our director, Michael Upendahl, was just amazing and we managed to get through it each time

03:03without stopping and I think Cooper and I were so locked in together.

03:08We had gotten very, very close.

03:10He was the first person I spoke to when the job became official and we just sort of fell

03:15in love and we lived five minutes away from each other where I was shooting, so he would

03:21come over almost every day.

03:23When we were shooting that, we would go before and after and, you know, actually something

03:29I've not said today, when we were in the middle of shooting on the first day of episode five

03:36and the first two takes were great but not exactly where we wanted them and Sarah Paulson

03:42is a dear friend and she had left me a voice note a few days before checking in and I knew

03:48Cooper loved her and I said, why don't, we were sort of holding each other and having

03:52a little cry and just sort of giving it over and then I was like, let's listen to the voice

03:57note from Paulson before we go in and it was just her reminding me of my only job was to

04:03be there for Leslie, not just in this scene but just in the work and we listened to it

04:07together and then we went off and then we did a take that we really felt good about

04:13but I think the one that's in the show is maybe the final time we did it but Cooper

04:17is extraordinary.

04:19I had a lot of empathy for Kitty.

04:21I was thinking a lot about my mother and her generation and women I know of her generation

04:28and you know, they were housewives and what it meant to them to be that and you know having

04:35to rely on the male in the household to support the family and when she was caught in the

04:45cycle of abuse, how would she ever get out, who would she turn to, you know, what were

04:48her options.

04:50It was a great opportunity to bring a creative option, the show is still a creative option,

04:58it's not a judgment on anything, to bring it to the audience so that they can see different

05:10versions and different options of what is believed, of what we know was something traumatic

05:19but trying to understand where that trauma came from, in the case of José Menéndez,

05:25the father, where did that come from, that pain that he could not face and that obviously

05:30created something very painful in the following generations, the lack of attention to his

05:39own trauma created a generational drama and that is an important issue to talk about

05:45and I think it is very well treated in the series.

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