Ryan Murphy Defended "Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story" After Backlash
Ryan Murphy Defended "Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story" After Backlash https://t.co/OCqNHs6qGa
- BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) September 24, 2024
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viewers and the Menendez brothers themselves have been confused about wtf that show was even doing
Ryan Murphy doesn't care
“I think it’s interesting that he’s [Erik Menendez] issued a statement without having seen the show. It’s really, really hard - if it’s your life - to see your life up on screen."
"The thing that I find interesting [is] that he doesn't mention in his quote is, if you watch the show, I would say 60-65% of our show in the scripts and in the film form center around the abuse and what they claimed happened to them. And we do it very carefully and we give them their day in court and they talk openly about it."
"In this age where people can really talk about sexual abuse, talking about it and writing about it and writing about all points of view can be controversial. It's a Rashomon kind of approach, where there were four people involved in that, two of them are dead. What about the parents? We had an obligation as storytellers to also try and put in their perspective based on our research, which we did."