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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