Nicholas Alexander Chavez Gives Insight On The Menéndez Case

Nicholas Alexander Chavez, the star of “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story,” expressed his sympathy for the Menéndez brothers following the discharge of the Netflix collection.

The 25-year-old actor opened up about portraying Lyle Menéndez in “Monsters” and shared his emotions in regards to the anticipation surrounding the collection’ debut.

Lyle and Erik Menéndez, portrayed by Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch within the collection, are presently incarcerated on the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in California after being convicted of murdering their dad and mom, José and Kitty Menéndez, on August 20, 1989.

“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,” Chavez advised People Magazine of the collection’ launch. “I might think about that may be extremely heavy.”

When requested if he had communicated with Lyle in the course of the filming of the present, Chavez clarified that he had not spoken to him straight and talked about that he had solely been knowledgeable about Erik’s response.

Erik not too long ago took to Fb to criticize the present’s depiction of himself and Lyle, asserting that the portrayal of “the details” of their lives is “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 in a press release on his brother’s Facebook web page. “I can solely imagine they have been completed so on goal.”

“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I imagine Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the details of our lives in order to do that with out dangerous intent,” he added.

Like the primary “Monsters” undertaking, the responses have been blended, however Chavez says they “ought to be.”

“It is delicate material and I think about that everybody is forming their very own interpretations of what occurred as we imagined and supposed that they might,” Chavez advised Folks.

The Menéndez murders have captured nationwide consideration over time and have impressed quite a few documentaries. Based on the brothers, the killings have been the results of years of alleged sexual abuse inflicted by their Hollywood govt father, which they declare was ignored by their mom.

He later addressed the violence they confronted throughout their childhood, arguing that the present doesn’t precisely mirror the true extent of their experiences.

“It’s unhappy for me to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies surrounding our crime have taken the painful truths a number of steps backward,” Erik mentioned after watching the collection. “Again by time to an period when the prosecution constructed a story on a perception system that males weren’t sexually abused, and that males skilled rape trauma in a different way than girls.”

José and Kitty Menéndez have been tragically discovered shot to loss of life of their lounge, with investigators discovering the grotesque scene involving two 12-gauge shotguns. The brutality of the crime was so surprising that authorities initially thought-about a potential mob connection, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.

“The our bodies have been distorted,” former Beverly Hills police captain and homicide investigator, Russ Olson mentioned on an episode of the true-crime documentary, ‘Snapped.’ “They’d no resemblance of what you’ll anticipate a human being to appear to be.”

In the end, Erik and Lyle Menéndez have been convicted of two counts of first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit homicide. They have been sentenced to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole and are presently incarcerated on the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.