Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny have been tapped to star reverse Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the second season of the acclaimed Netflix crime anthology Monster from creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
The pair will respectively play Jose and Kitty Menendez, the Beverly Hills couple murdered by sons Lyle (Chavez) and Erik (Koch). The brand new season comes on the heels of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which starred Evan Peters because the infamous serial killer and shortly grew to become one among Netflix’s hottest English-language collection ever when it debuted in September 2022.
It was in 1989 that Lyle and Erik Mendendez murdered mother and father Jose and Kitty of their L.A.-area house. Though not initially checked out as prime suspects, they got here beneath investigation within the months following and ultimately confessed to parricide, on the similar time claiming that their actions stemmed from years of bodily, emotional and sexual abuse by the hands of their father. Their first of two trials, broadcast on Court docket TV, had the nation in its grip, very similar to the 1994 trial of O.J. Simpson, and is believed to have performed a component within the modern-day fascination with true crime.
The prosecution argued that the pair had been the truth is searching for to inherit their father’s multimillion-dollar property, and the Mendendez brothers had been convicted in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment, with out the potential of parole, although the case continues to unfold to at the present time. Final summer season, Erik and Lyle filed paperwork in hopes of a brand new listening to, following former Menudo Menudo bandmember Roy Rosselló’s declare that he was molested by José Menendez on the age of 14.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is one among two forthcoming seasons of the Monster anthology introduced as of November 2022. The story on the heart of the third chapter has not but been revealed. Along with the scripted collection on the Mendendez brothers, Netflix has a function doc on the duo within the works, delivered to life with unique entry to the topics. Exec producers on Season 2 of Monster are Murphy, Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall, Eric Kovtun, David McMillan, Louise Shore, and Carl Franklin.
Most just lately portraying King Triton in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Bardem will subsequent be seen in Dune: Half Two, out March 1 following a strike-imposed delay, and Apple’s Components 1 racing film with Brad Pitt. He’s repped by WME, agent José Marzilli in Spain, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Additionally just lately in enterprise with Murphy as one of many stars of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, out January 31, Sevigny beforehand visitor starred within the first season of Rian Johnson’s acclaimed homicide thriller collection Poker Face, starring Natasha Lyonne. Different latest tasks embody Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, in addition to reveals like The Lady from Plainville and Russian Doll. She is repped by WME and Circle of Confusion.
