Ryan Murphy has no interest meeting Menendez brothers amid backlash: Monsters is best thing thats happened to them in 30 years

Ryan Murphy is standing his ground. The prolific and controversial TV creator and producer, 58, has remained unfazed, as his show “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” has been slammed by the real Menendez brothers. “I have no interest in talking to them,” Murphy told Variety in an interview published Thursday.He added, “…I’m very close, obviously, with Kim Kardashian, who has spoken to them.I love Kim, and I believe she does God’s work.

I believe in prison reform.I believe in everything she believes in.

I don’t know what I would say to them.What would I ask them? I know what their perspective is.”Erik, 53, and Lyle Menendez, 56, are currently serving life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989. They alleged that their father had sexually abused them. The show, which premiered Sept.

19 on Netflix, is the second season of Murphy’s “Monsters” anthology series.It began with its first season, “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which earned its star, Even Peters, a Golden Globe, and became Netflix’s second most popular show, despite Dahmer’s real life victims slamming the show. “Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story” dramatizes the killings and the trials that ended with the brothers’ 1996 conviction.

Javier Bardeem and Chloe Sevigny star as their parents, while Cooper Koch plays Erik and Nicholas Alexander Chavez plays Lyle. After the show premiered, Erik Menendez spoke out in a statement on Lyle’s facebook page on Sept.20. “It is with a heavy heart that I say, I believe Ryan Murphy cannot be this naive and inaccurate about the facts of our lives so as to do this without bad intent,” he wrote.Erik blasted Murphy and said that the TV creator “shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and me and disheartening slander.”Murphy told Variety, “The fami...

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