As the controversy over Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story and its portrayal of the two young men who killed their parents in 1989 has become a back-and-forth between the show’s producer and the people and family whom the series portrays, several members of the cast weighed in to defend the hit Netflix show and explain the perspective shifts that caused Erik Menendez to call it “blatant lies” from behind bars.
At a press gathering in New York last week, Cooper Koch (Erik Menendez), Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Lyle Menendez), Nathan Lane (reporter Dominick Dunne) and Ari Graynor (attorney Leslie Abramson) spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and gave their perspectives on the back-and-forth that has emerged after Erik Menendez’s wife posted a missive from prison condemning how Erik, and particularly Lyle, are depicted in the true crime drama. Both men are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole
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