Kim Kardashian and Monsters actor Cooper Koch have reportedly visited Erik and Lyle Menéndez in jail, a day after the previous brother launched a press release through his spouse slamming the brand new Ryan Murphy installment as a “dishonest portrayal.”
Per TMZ, Kardashian — who has positioned herself as a felony justice advocate and now counts Murphy as a colleague, having starred in his American Horror Story: Delicate — stopped by San Diego County’s Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility to talk to a bunch of some 40 inmates, together with the Menéndez brothers, about jail reform.
The truth TV star and enterprise mogul — who will proceed her collaboration with Murphy by way of the upcoming Hulu authorized drama All’s Honest, set at an all-female regulation agency and starring heavy-hitters like Glenn Shut, Naomi Watts, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor and Niecy Nash alongside Kardashian — was joined by sister Khloé Kardashian and mom Kris Jenner, together with movie producer and Anti-Recidivism Coalition founder Scott Budnick. Koch, who portrays Erik alongside Nicholas Alexander Chavez’s Lyle, was additionally in attendance.
One of many reported matters of debate was Greenspace, a reform technique aimed toward enhancing jail yards to assist inmate rehabilitation, led by each Lyle and Erik Menéndez.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story, which premiered Sept. 19 on Netflix, is the second installment to Murphy’s docudrama true crime anthology, which initially premiered this time two years in the past with Evan Peters’ portrayal of the grizzly serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Season 2 additionally stars Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny because the Menéndez dad and mom, Jose and Mary Louise “Kitty,” who have been killed by their youngsters in 1989.
Upon its launch, Erik denounced the collection in a prolonged assertion, writing: “I believed we had moved past the lies and ruinous character portrayals of Lyle, making a caricature of Lyle rooted in horrible and blatant likes rampant within the present. I can solely consider they have been executed so on goal. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I say, I consider Ryan Murphy can’t be this naive and inaccurate in regards to the information of our lives in order to do that with out unhealthy intent.”
The assertion continued: “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 — again by way of 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 another way than girls. These terrible lies have been disrupted and uncovered by numerous courageous victims during the last 20 years who’ve damaged by way of their private disgrace and bravely spoken out. So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative by way of vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.”
In concluding his remarks, Erik mentioned, “Is the reality not sufficient? Let the reality stand as the reality. How demoralizing to know that one man with energy can undermine a long time of progress in shedding mild on childhood trauma.” As famous within the assertion, Erik took concern with the collection’ lack of engagement with the abuse that coloured most of his and his brother’s lives by the hands of their dad and mom, together with sexual trauma from their father, which they cited as context for the homicide dedicated out of worry.
After being arrested in 1990 following Erik’s confession to his psychologist, the 2 brothers have been convicted of first-degree homicide in 1996 and sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole. Nevertheless, their lawyer Mark Geragos not too long ago instructed Folks he’s “cautiously optimistic” that new household testimonies will assist get the case lowered to voluntary manslaughter.
The backlash to Murphy’s newest Monster entry is considerably unsurprising. Upon the discharge of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, its creator and Netflix confronted backlash, with victims’ households coming ahead to say the collection “retraumatized” them and that they weren’t contacted previous to launch. On the time, the present turned the third collection on the streamer to cross the 1 billion hours seen threshold inside 60 days, prompting the platform to resume the present for one other two seasons.
On-line, chatter concerning the ethics of Dahmer, in view of Erik’s assertion, have resurfaced, with the subject trending on X as some watchers proclaim they won’t be tuning in to the brand new installment.
