Nicholas Alexander Chavez was dedicated to meticulously researching his function as Lyle Menendez, one-half of the real-life brothers who brutally murdered their dad and mom in 1989, for his function in Ryan Murphy’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.” He took his half so severely, actually, that he stated he felt “a few of religious connection” with the Beverly Hills mansion the place the crime occurred.
Whereas the manufacturing workforce used three totally different L.A.-area areas to cobble collectively its Menendez dwelling, the actual life website may be very a lot intact on North Elm Drive in Beverly Hills. Chavez stated he lives “not fairly a stone’s throw however fairly shut” to the home, and took every day walks to it whereas making ready for the manufacturing.
“Possibly you’ve had the same expertise to this, the place you simply know that areas carry vitality with them,” Chavez stated throughout a latest interview with The Los Angeles Occasions. “I might sit in entrance of the home and I might attempt to create in my thoughts’s eye and know that every one of this stuff truly occurred at this home that I’m standing in entrance of. And that was actually heavy and took a number of days of strolling to the home to even start to course of. I used to be simply attempting to align myself with the story, with the folks, with the place as intimately as I presumably may from as early as I attainable may within the course of.”
Chavez added that he felt as if he’ll “at all times carry some image” of his characters, together with Lyle, with him.
“You’re at all times married to it not directly, form or kind for the remainder of your life, however sure behavioral points or methods of pondering that simply creep their means into your psyche, these hang around longer than you may assume,” he exaplined.
Earlier this month, the real-life Menendez brothers had been resentenced from life with out the potential for parole to 50 years with the potential for parole. Their parole listening to is scheduled for Aug. 21 and 22. Erik’s portrayer Cooper Koch, who has visited his off-screen counterpart in jail, stated Erik is “jazzed” concerning the potential of being launched after 35 years behind bars.
“I talked to Erik yesterday, and I simply assume he’ll at all times be part of my life. And he’s so excited and keen about this subsequent chapter of his,” Koch stated. “He was simply saying how his complete mission, and what he desires to dedicate his life to, is jail reform and making large change for individuals who even have LWOP [life without parole] who he is aware of.”