‘Monster’ Season 2 Enlists Javier Bardem & Chloë Sevigny To Portray Menendez Parents

[queenursula]

'Monster' Season 2 Enlists Javier Bardem & Chloë Sevigny To Portray Menendez Parents https://t.co/twEXqvy7iL
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) January 15, 2024
Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny have been tapped to star opposite Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the second season of the acclaimed Netflix crime

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[you_hermit_crab]

This feels really gross lumping them (the brothers) in with Dahmer when they were victims themselves.

[sjazzmreow]

I'm wondering if they're going to flip it, reveal it was the parents who were the monsters all along?

ETA: the comment directly below suggests this is not likely to be the case. nvm.

[lilith20godrich]

I read brothers are going to be portrayed as liars and monsters. Lost any interest. This whole case and their sentences is a definition of fucked up.

[erin805]

That’s so disappointing especially given what we know about the Dad now with his history of abuse (hell what they knew then was concerning)

[queenursula]

Where did you read that? There’s almost no information on the show.

[lilith20godrich]

I read it on reddit, Menendez Brothers sub. Some tv critic/journalists was answering questions about upcoming shows, based on the inside information. I hope he was wrong or script was changed.

[evenstarnikki]

i want to learn more about this case since it happened when i was a child and i only found out like two years ago that the father was abusing one or both brothers. that was NEVER part of the narrative i heard; only that they were after inheritance money.

i shouldn't be surprised older scandals have been misrepresented since i see in real-time how media and public opinion lie their asses off about current events, but it still pisses me off. i wasn't trying to be misinformed about those, i was just busy trying to keep up with more recent headlines and don't always think to revisit ones from my youth. :-(

fuck abusers and propagandists from every era.

[arilicious]

If you'd like to learn more, I recommend watching Dick Wolf's show "Law & Order: True Crime - The Menendez Murders", it came out a few years ago and had Edie Falco as their attorney, Leslie Abramson. It was pretty well-done, but sadly didn't receive much acclaim compared to what I'm expecting this will...

There was also a recent documentary made on Peacock, which featured a former Menudo member who accused Jose of also SA'ing him.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks there's a reason why this stuff was so covered up and made fun of by the media back in the 90s.

[vanilla_09]

Why is this pendejo whose always complaining about being discriminating against because he's white playing a latino YET AGAIN.

[automaticpeople]

But someone said the dad was white Latino. I’m not saying Javier should be playing him, but it doesn’t sound like it’s a white guy playing a poc.

[evenstarnikki]

and thinking about the similarity, chloe was in a movie about lizzy borden called Lizzy that i thought was well done. if her dad was really the monster they portrayed him as, i tip my hat to her. all she wanted was her freedom, her girlfriend, and her pet animals; she got the first one, and donated most of her inheritance to rescue centers.