Obviously, Monsters is out now. A lot of people, OK. A lot of people have had
some thoughts on this online. What's your reaction to all of this?
This is what I think about that show. I think, I think, you know, Eric Menendez
has spoken out about the show. I think that's interesting because I know he
hasn't watched the show. So I find that curious. I know this for a fact. I hope
he does watch it. I think if he did watch it, he would be incredibly proud
of Cooper Koch who plays him.
My feeling about this is, it's a 3530 year old case. I think the show is a
very interesting, what we're trying to do is a Roman approach where we show
many, many, many, many perspectives. That's what the show does in every
episode. You are given a new theory based on people who were either
involved or covered the case.
Some of the controversy of the show seems to be people thinking for example,
that the brothers are having an incestuous relationship. There are
people who say that never happened. There were people who said it did
happen, Dominic Dunn who Nathan Lane plays and we show that for the most
part vis a vis through his theory about what happened in that house. The show
is a who done it like that. We know how it ended. We know two people were
brutally shot. And so I think people are a little confused about what we
were trying to do. Our view and what we wanted to do was present you all the
facts And at the end of it, have you do two things, make up your own mind about
who's innocent, who's guilty and who's the monster. And also have a
conversation about something that's never talked about in our culture,
which is male sexual abuse. We do responsibly if you look at that show,
60 to 65% of the show centers around Eric and Lyle Menendez talking about
their abuse, talking about their victimization, talking about what it
emotionally put them through those two boys on our show, get their moment in
court. And then so then we have an entire episode. That is a 30 minute
episode. That is one shot that Cooper caught does so brilliantly. That is
just Eric's words about what happened to him and why he did what he did. So
I'm used to this, I think I write about provocative things and controversial
things and my motto is never complained and never explained. That's what I
think