Murphy also commented on the recent news that Koch visited the prison where the real Menéndez brothers are being held. This visit took place with none other than Kim Kardashian, who has been an advocate for criminal justice reform for several years.

“Look, I find it really, really hard to watch his life on screen,” Murphy noted. “It’s been 30 years since that case; I think that’s tough.”

Murphy continued:

“The interesting thing I find is that he doesn’t mention it in his quote – and that no one from this page spoke – if you watch the show, I would say 60 to 65 percent of our show, in the scripts and in the film form, is about the abuse and what they say happened to them. We do that very carefully, we give them their day in court and they talk openly about it.”

“We are presenting the facts largely from their point of view. We have been researching for three years; everything is true,” he added.

In response to the question from ET which sources Murphy used during his research process for The story of Lyle and Erik Menendezthe showrunner replied:

“Just anything we could find. I mean, I have such a huge team when I do these biographies. (…) What’s interesting is that in this age when people can really talk about sexual abuse – which I couldn’t when I was young – it can be controversial to talk about it, to write about it, to write about all points of view.”

“The interesting thing I think about (this season of) Monster is that it is a Rashomon kind of approach,” Murphy stressed. “There were four people involved, two of them dead and two still alive with (their) point of view. But what about the parents? We had an obligation as storytellers to also try to bring in their perspective based on our research, which we did.”

Murphy finally noted how “very proud” he was of the work and the acting in this second season of the Monster franchise on Netflix, adding: “I think Nicholas (Chavez), Cooper (Koch), Javier (Bardem), Ari (Graynor), Chloë (Sevigny) and Nathan Lane are all incredible.

On the same red carpet, Chavez was asked if he would like to meet the real Menéndez brothers if he had the chance.

“In my opinion, as an actor, you come in and play a role. And then at the end of the day you have to have the dignity to be able to say: “It was a role I played and a job I had.” (But) then you have to let it go and move on to the next project.”